Bring out the dramatic significance of the symbols used in Hedda Gabler. (P.U. 2006)

Hedda and Thea are presented as not only opponents for the soul and genius of Eilert Loevborg, but as contrasts in sterility and fertility. Although Hedda is pregnant and Thea has no children, Thea is fertile and Hedda is sterile. Hedda rejects even the idea of her own pregnancy, while Thea works with Eilert Loevborg, and later with George Tesman, to bring the book “child” of Eilert and herself