Hedvig as the "Wild Duck."

I agree with Mary McCarthys statement about Hedvig being the uncivilized Duck. Hedvig is perhaps the plays most pathetic figure by its straightforward and martyred child. She is of uncertain pargonntage, belonging either to Hialmar or Werle and potentially passed from the source to the latter in a marriage designed to deflect public scandal. Hedvigs be effd father dispossesses her at the moment when her approaching is assured through Werles beneficence. Hialmar even makes special contraptions for the duck and Hedvig identifies with it completely. She comes to double up the wild duck in being the wayward daughter. analogous the duck, she is no longer certain of her origins and has been adopted into a back up home.

Hedvigs doubling with the wild duck particularly distinguishes itself from that of the rest of the estimate in taking metaphoric substitution to a blistering conclusion. This shift occurs when the two figures both become the object of sacrifice. When Hialmar abandons Hedvig, Gregers ordain exhort her to sacrifice the duck, her most precious possession, to prove her love for her father. Hedvig will enter the garret to kill the duck tho end by killing herself in a classic and bloodless suicide. She dies for her fathers love.



The irony is that throughout the play Hedvig intuits the lunacy of Gregerss credo and nearly awakes from it before committing suicide.

The symbols of the wild duck and of Hedvigs blindness are crucial to an understanding of the play. The wild duck symbolizes something to do with freedom, which sure-enough(a) Ekdal has lost in his disgrace and which his sons household can never have because of his economic dependence on Werle. The bird has been game by Werle, and in its company Old Ekdal seeks his former happiness, as he carries out mock hunts, killing rabbits in...

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