The Wild Duck Journal #3

I think Gregers could be the one the is mostly at fault because he seems like a catalyst to everything that is happening. He is bringing those ideas and thoughts to the Ekdal family that destroyes them, and yet he seems satisfied with it. When the characters are already in grief, he increases it and therefore seems to the reader as this annoying character that should just stay away from the life of the family, because whenever he walks into the house, he brings in more trouble.
Relling should probably be a character without blame because although he created those lies in the Ekdal families; he did it as his responsibility since he is a doctor. He had the right intentions of helping the family and therefore he should not really take any blame for what happened.
But I also think most of the characters take a blame some way or the other. Hjalmar wouldn't have as much as an extreme blame because he was the one that everyone hid the secrets from and therefore it affected him badly. Although it was not completely Hjalmar's fault for Hedvig's death, he does take responsibility for it. He feels like he is the one to be blamed, although it is not really his fault since he was just part of this web created by all the other characters the same way as Hedvig was part of the web too.
Gina should definitely carry the blame the most, yet in the play, she seems to act as if she had nothing to do with Hedvig's death. She becomes emotional when Hedvig dies, but then she just says that it was meant to be and that she should continue her life with Hjalmar. I feel like she should take a lot of blame towards the event that happened because it seems like she didn't really mind Hedvig's death, and she found that Hedvig's death is a way she could trick Hjalmar into staying with her by acting that he will need her comfort.
Gregers, on the other hand, does not take responsibility at all. He feels like he just did what his ideals were and accomplished his destiny. But he should also carry more of a blame because he seems to have had the right intentions of helping the Ekdal family, but in the end, it seems like he just did that as a way of accomplishing a goal that has been caused due to jealousy of the Ekdal family from their strong relationships, to the idea of being the thirteenth man on the table. Since the beginning, when Werle referred to Hjalmar as the thirteenth man, Werle didn't really take notice or count in his son. And so in the end, Gregers was probably jealous that his dad didn't count him in as a thirteenth man to be joining this regular group of people that always gathers together.