Hedda Gabler's 'The World Is Too Much With Us'

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In “The World is Too Much with Us” William Wordsmith see the world of industrial revolution as distancing itself from nature. William criticizes this first world of industrial revolution because it is a world that has fully sunk into materialism. William see that this world is no longer natural as it should have been. William is concerned that the world is too overwhelming. The focus on money and time is just too unbearable. Williams loves the natural world. He is nostalgic about beautiful events such as shining of the moon over the ocean. William adores the blowing of strong wind over the ocean. The world is too overwhelming in that it demands too much of human energy. The need to accumulate more stuff and money is driving humanity crazy. In general William argues that people have sold their souls to materialism. The natural world is

She is portrayed in this poem as a bad person. This is seen from her action in which she taunts a one who is trying to recover from alcohol. Through her actions, she makes the recovering alcoholic to go back to drinking. In addition to this she tricks one man into committing suicide and in the process, she takes pleasure in it. Generally, Hedda is a sadist. A critical look at reveals that Hedda could be doing the things she is doing just because she is a woman. A look at the prevailing circumstances at the time (that is 1860) reveal that at this point in time, women had no say. Generally, they were not allowed to exercise their will. This was the Victorian era and women were not allowed to do or say much of anything. Hedda reveals her boredom that she experienced during this period. She says, “How mortally bored I have been”. Hedda wants equality. She wants to enjoy the freedom and opportunities that men have. Due to her lack of freedom and opportunities Hedda envies other such as Tesman who is a soon to be professor, Brack who is a judge and Eilert who is a