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In Henrik Ibsen's Hedda Gabler, the title character arouses a contradictory response from an attentive audience. She is, in the words of original critic George Bernard Shaw, "sympathetically unsympathetic." As the central character in a controversial play drawing attention to society's downfalls, Hedda is difficult both to understand and to portray,
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