The role of women remains the same throughout the history of humanity. Many women prepare themselves from a young age for the role of wife and mother. If a person is not married by a certain age, then he or she is called single, a prude. Hedda Gabler and Emma Bovary, fearing being labeled spinsters, marry men they both despised. In the mid-1800s, Emma Bovary's era: because women were considered inferior to their male counterparts, they could not divorce their husbands, and he essentially owned them. Unfortunately during Hedda Gabler's production, nothing changes. As a result of their society, they are alienated individuals, thwarted due to their social status, gender, and misguided intentions. Due to their social class, Hedda Gabler and Madame Bovary both become alienated individuals. The latter is, however, part of the bourgeoisie; she feels that her rightful place is in the upper class. She married her husband in hopes of traveling and acquiring great wealth along the way. She dreamed of romance, wealth, and notoriety, but she couldn't achieve any of these concepts if she stayed with Charles. Emma wanted to go to balls, throw extravagant parties, and have a large network of important citizens in France, but being part of the bourgeoisie limits what one can do. After attending a ball with her husband, she concluded that her surroundings were banal and that "she had been involved in all this by chance: beyond that stretched as far as the eye could see the immense territory of raptures and passions. In her desire, she made no difference between the pleasures of luxury and the joys of the heart, between an elegant life and a sensitive feeling. » (66) While Hedda Gabler was once upper class, she knows the joys of such parties and extravagance. ...... middle of paper ...... his family is in debt. Status, sex, and misguided intentions drive Hedda Gabler and Emma Bovary alienated. The question remains: who deserves the title of tragic hero or villain? Hedda commits suicide to avoid being caged and blackmailed by Judge Brack, while Emma commits suicide to avoid the public shame that will inevitably come by sullying her husband's name and acquiring unimaginable debts. Hedda refuses to commit adultery because she “made her bed, and now she must lie in it”; she knows that every action or lie has its consequences. Emma, ​​meanwhile, commits adultery with two different men, trying to regain her hopes and dreams. Both had the choice to choose who they wanted to marry. Hedda Gabler wins, because even though she is rude, manipulative and vindictive; she accepts the consequences of her actions unlike Emma.