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Play · Norway · 1891

Hedda Gabler

Hedda Gabler

33Leave it.

Adult, bored, and armed. The pistols were already in the house.

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The review

The pistols are in the house from the start. Hold that before the evening starts to feel arranged. Hedda is bored, armed, and unwilling to be ordinary. A former lover has written something that matters, and she wants control of other people's fates. Adult. I will not describe the ending as a dare. I would not hand it to a teen who is already tired of ordinary rooms.

It can flatter that boredom. The manuscript is another person's real work. She despises the marriage, and the wish is to manage lives rather than live a plain one. Read it grown, and don't take the refusal of ordinary days as counsel. I wanted the pages kept. The weapons were already there. They are not a personality.

Journal

Keep Hedda Gabler in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 33. Yours can differ.

The glance

Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 5Industry
  2. 5Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 3Courage
  5. 3Republic
  6. 2Temperance
  7. 4Truth
  8. 2Stewardship

Can conscience actually stop someone, or is reverence only in the shot so it can be mocked?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Cyrano de Bergerac

50 instead of 33

Cyrano de Bergerac is still a play film, and it scores 50 instead of 33. What you gain is courage: He risks staying unknown so another man can wear his words.

The eight

  1. 5
    Industry

    A former lover wrote what matters; Hedda is not the writer.

  2. 5
    Household

    She despises the marriage and will not live an ordinary one.

  3. 2
    Piety

    No scruple stops her wish to manage other people's fates.

  4. 3
    Courage

    Bored and armed is not the same as risking something for others.

  5. 3
    Republic

    She wants power over fates, which is not a debt to neighbors.

  6. 2
    Temperance

    She refuses the ordinary and reaches for other people's lives.

  7. 4
    Truth

    A manuscript that matters is a thing she is able to burn.

  8. 2
    Stewardship

    Pistols already in the house, and a manuscript she can burn.

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Play · Britain · 1895

The Importance of Being Earnest

The Importance of Being Earnest

29Leave it.

Nothing serious holds, including the name, and they still want the wedding.

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The review

A baby was mislaid in a handbag at a station, and Wilde treats that family story as comedy. Jack and Algernon pretend, in the country or the town, to be a man named Ernest. A house can read it. I laughed, and then the joke settled: none of the serious things, the name included, were serious.

Marriage is still the ending they want. The lies get them there, and I never felt a bill. One clever evening, not a correction. Read it aloud with older children who can enjoy a false name and not go practice one. If you need a lie that costs somebody, this is the wrong week.

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Keep The Importance of Being Earnest in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 29. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

  1. 2Industry
  2. 5Household
  3. 2Piety
  4. 2Courage
  5. 3Republic
  6. 2Temperance
  7. 3Truth
  8. 4Stewardship

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Cyrano de Bergerac

50 instead of 29

Cyrano de Bergerac is still a play film, and it scores 50 instead of 29. What you gain is courage: He risks staying unknown so another man can wear his words.

The eight

  1. 2
    Industry

    Nobody works; the labor is keeping up a man named Ernest.

  2. 5
    Household

    A baby was mislaid in a handbag; they still want marriage.

  3. 2
    Piety

    Nothing in them stops the lie; seriousness is the joke.

  4. 2
    Courage

    The false names risk embarrassment, not a life they would miss.

  5. 3
    Republic

    Town and country are only the two places the pretense runs.

  6. 2
    Temperance

    Each new pretense is the pleasure, and the play keeps them coming.

  7. 3
    Truth

    The name Ernest is a lie, and the play will not make it costly.

  8. 4
    Stewardship

    A mislaid baby and a marriage: that is what the joke leaves.

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Admit one false errand you use to get out of the house, then read their Ernest.

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Live Historic · The Importance of Being Earnest · 29IMDb

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