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Which quotation from a translation of Hedda Gabler most effectively illustrates the claim that Hedda seeks to influence another person's fate? Hedda Gabler is an 1890 play by Henrik Ibsen. As a woman in the Victorian era, Hedda, the play's central character, is unable to freely determine her own future. Instead, she seeks to influence another person's fate, as is evident when she says to another character, ______.
- 1'Faithful to your principles, now and for ever! Ah, that is how a man should be!'
- 2'Then I, poor creature, have no sort of power over you?'
- 3'I want for once in my life to have power to mould a human destiny.'✓
- 4'Then what in heaven's name would you have me do with myself?'
Correct answer
'I want for once in my life to have power to mould a human destiny.'
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