SpiderwebsA spider becomes caught in it's own web. This is an example of an attemptedmanipulation that went awry. Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen, is a work about a womanwho manipulates the fates of others in order to fulfill her own wishes. The title characteris a woman who has recently returned f...

Death through murder, illness, or suicide is the end result in many stories of romantic love. In the plays, Hedda Gabler and Medea, women heroines often take the brunt of society's censure of "inappropriate" passion due to their performances of vengeance. The protagonists are marked b...