Henrik Ibsen's play, Hedda Gabler is primarily concerned with representing and critiquing bourgeois Norwegian society in the nineteenth century. In order to achieve this, the play employs symbolism to represent the psychological states of the central characters, a symbol being an object which stands for something else, and often has cultural meanings attached to it. Hedda Gabler being a play these objects are visible to the audience and the symbols give power to the delivery of the themes. ... (Act I, p295) Here the pistols are a symbol of Hedda's attempt to delay the inevitabili...

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The Oseberg ship is a Viking Age ship excavated from the Oseberg farm near Tønsberg in Norway. ... In this sense it can be said therefore that the ship is the perfect symbol of the energetic society of the time. Ships could be a symbol of wealth as ship burials can attest to, and pictures of ships can be found on Scandinavian coins, memorial stones, and even Viking graffiti3. ... Many people believe the body of the older woman to belong to Norway's Queen Ãsa10, grandmother of Haraldr Hárfagri who would later become recognized as the first king of Norway. ... Quite interestingl...

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The gates swing open and inside lay mounds of emaciated corpses, haggard and diseased victims and remnants of skeletons within ovens so vast that they defy belief. ... This was the first time that the world in general was witness to the dispensation of justice against men who initiated and efficiently carried out acts "so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored, because it cannot survive their being repeated," (Jackson). It is a shame, however, that the model for dispensing world justice was as imperfect as the Nuremberg Trials were. ... He state...

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