Hedda's lust for power is shown in the second act, but a more personal Machiavellian power. Hebba is amused by the guns her father gave her; which give her the power to destroy people's lives. When you point a gun at a person, you keep that person's life under your control. This is exactly Hedda's goal in the second act between Brack and Hedda's desires are to feel like she has complete control over someone or something. Judge Brack represents the upper class, an example of how the extremely powerful become corrupt. Midway through the second act Hedda is described as "dressed to take calls" while holding her revolver. When Hedda fires a shot in the presence of the judge, that demonstrates Hedda's uncontrollable personality. It should come as no surprise that this gun is the very instrument with which Hedda kills herself, and she gives the other to Lovborg to realize her romantic ideal of the perfect husband. With the gun, she not only shows Hedda's independence flaunted, but demonstrates Hedda's potential masculinity and evidence of a woman who will not live under her stereotypical helpless role in the Victorian era. From his first appearance in the show we see how the judge raises the stakes for George Tesman, telling him that Lovborg is after his job. We suspect that Judge Brack made up the whole story as a way to convince his wife to become his lover and also to take control of the Tesman family because of his love for Hedda. Hedda attempts to gain some power over Judge Brack by flirting with him, meanwhile Brack is slowly bringing Hedda under his control. Irony occurs when the audience knows something that the character or characters do not. Irony underlines the inconsistency between appearance and reality - which conf... middle of paper... his guns. The judge suggests that he will get to where you have to go to court. Hedda states, "I'd rather die" to which Brack says, "People say these things. But don't do them." This quote revolves around an important theme in the story regarding social boundaries. In the real world, people are very interested in behaving normally, keeping up appearances, and fulfilling their roles in life. Hedda shoots herself in the head, doing what people absolutely did not do in the Victorian era, Hedda frees herself from the social mandates that govern her daily action. Brack never gets to sleep with the woman he wanted, and overall, Hedda wins the battle for the position of power by getting the last laugh by proving that people will absolutely do these things, freeing herself from Victorian era values ​​and maintaining her aesthetics. ideal, when killing.