"Do you find it so very surprising that a young girl- if there's no chance of anyone knowing- that she'd like some glimpse of a world that she's forbidden to know anything about" (265).
Hedda says this in response to Lovborg asking why Hedda asked such questions when they were younger. This metaphor of "glimpsing into another world" can link directly with the glass door. Hedda always seems to go through the glass door and close and open the curtains. Perhaps every time she opens the curtains or walks through the door, she feels more powerful or in control. But every time the curtain is closed, the room is dark and her control is lost. Therefore the glass door is the doorway through which Hedda sees the masculine world, something that is so close that she can see it but is shielded by an invisible (the glass) barrier.
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That was a really good motif- and maybe her "forbidden world" is the world of men. Hedda wants to have the power and control that men have in her society, but she is "forbidden" because she's a woman. So maybe by trying to get a glimpse of this world Hedda is trying to find a way to be a part of this world where she could be powerful and in control of her life.
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