Thursday, April 26, 2012

Wild Duck #3

Journal #3: Consider which characters are at fault for the events that are unfolding and why? Is there a character without blame?  Why or why not? Is there a character who should carry more of the blame?  Do any of the characters take responsibility?
I think the character who is mostly responsible for everything happening like it did is Gina because she could have avoided all this from the very start by telling Hjalmar the truth. I feel like if she was under bad circumstances with having a child with a married man then she should have gone away but she shouldn't have been accepting money from a man that didn't want anything to do with her or her child. She keeps too close of a relationship with Werle and is open to the fact that he is pretty much providing everything for her family. She does accept responsibility but is only because she was forced to, she didn't have another choice. I think that if it was up to her she would have carried out the lies throughout their whole lives. I also think Greggers is to blame too because he unleashed all this truth when it didn't need to be. He still has the belief that he was doing the right thing so he does not need to take responsibilty for anything because he believes he did not do anything wrong.  Hjalmar and his family were fine and he came in and destroyed their family, and by unleashing the truth he sent Hedvig to her death.I think Hjalmar also has some blame for what happened to Hedvig because it was his reaction that sent Hedvig to kill herself. She only wanted the love of her dad and when he acted as if he didn't want her that changed everything for her. Hedvig is the only character without blame. She was only an innocent child who was unaware of her unfair circumstances.

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