Hedda blogs: 4

I wonder what Hedda's intentions actually were when she fired at the judge in the beginning of act two. She wasn't actually trying to kill him. When he is alarmed, she non-chalantly asks "Oh dear, I didn't hit you did I?" as if it would not have mattered very much if she had. It seems that she was just doing it out of boredom. Or perhaps, she was trying to make a demonstration of her power to the judge, to show him that she could not be manipulated. But she was, in the end, and the source of her power was turned on her.