Background
The model of the character Hedvig was a German girl Ibsen met when he was completing the play in Gossensass in the summer of 1884. Hedvig was the name of his sister, with whom he was very close, who in turn was named for their maternal grandmother, Hedevig Paus (1763–1848).
She
is the fourteen year old daughter of Gina and
Hialmar, the most pathetic figure whose eyesight is failing. Like her mother, she adores
and pampers her father. When he
questions whether or not she is really his daughter
and rejects her love, she is totally distressed, for there is no way to prove whether Hialmar or Werle is
her father. When Hialmar abandons Hedvig, Gregers will exhort her to sacrifice
the duck, her most precious possession, to prove her love for her father.
Hedvig will enter the garret to kill the duck but end by killing herself in a
chaste and bloodless suicide. She dies for her father's love
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