Hedda Gabler

Hedda gabler's prelude to committing suicide

why does hedda sit down to play a frenzied dance melody on the piano as a prelude to committing suicide?

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I think that Hedda is manifesting how she feels inside. Despite the frenzied chaotic feeling Hedda also finds beauty in the dance as she finds beauty in her "beautiful death". Her dancing also represents her fragmented identities of daughter and wife.

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