Read the excerpt below and answer the question. hedda: no matter—i could not bear the idea that any one should throw you into the shade. tesman. [in an outburst of mingled doubt and joy.] hedda! oh, is this true? but—but—i never knew you show your love like that before. fancy that! (hedda gabler; act 4, p. 129) to what does hedda compare lovborg with the metaphor in her dialogue with tesman?

Hedda compares Lovborg to any common man. She does not refer to him as a hard competitor from the academic world.

Explanation:

"any one should throw you into the shade..." Hedda is not a well-meant character. She is ambitious and she does not want to be married to a an unsuccessful man. The word " any one" means any person from the common. " ..to throw into the shade" means to insult him by stopping Tesman from getting a better position in the academic world.

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