Prompt 2:
I feel like Ms. Sorby has false conceptions of herself. She is a very kind and giving woman, but at this point in time she is still a housemaid that is employed under Werle. It seems that she is beginning to see herself as wealthy before she actually becomes married to Werle, but in reality she is just a handmaid for now. I think that it is safe to say that Hjalmar has false conceptions of the other people around him. He is in the blind about Gina having an affair with Werle and he thinks that Hedvig is his biological daughter when in reality she belongs to Werle as well. The person that recognizes the facades is Gregers. Gregers calls out Werle on everything at the end of the first act, and then makes all of it aware to Hjalmar near the end, sending Hjalmar's life into a downward spiral, which ultimately results in Hedvig's death. Hjalmar reacts to learning about the facades at first by freaking out and becoming angry with everyone, but then after Hedvig's death he accepts all of the new facts he has learned about his life. His wife Gina reacts rather calmly but that is only because she has known all of this information the whole time. When Gregers reaches the conclusions early on in the novel he reacts by getting excited about bringing his father down, and heads to Hjalmar's to set the tragedy in motion.
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