Hedda and Bernarda

After reading this play and House of Bernarda Lorca, i think that Hedda and Bernarda have many things in common. first of all they are both woman who break the rules of what it means to be a woman, and by that i mean they are demanding and controlling, not the delicate flowers they were expected to be. also they both demand power and control from those around them and if they didnt get it they made sure that they got it somehwere else. Also they both have some sort of phallic symbol they are asssociated with, Hedda the pistols, and Bernarda the cane/rod. Finally they both are under the illusion that they have total power, when infact they are both under the influence or a higher power, and not gods, but men. In heddas case there was Brack, and in Bernardas there was the outside influence of men in society. These two characters, while related in their final acts as well. Bernarda still tries to maintain power in her enviroment by silencing her daughters from weeping, and Hedda, while she gives into the subordination, she kills herself in a last attempt at power