Alright, IB English has given us a pervert in the form of Judge Brack. Our own 'cock of the walk' is quite posessive, even over things that do not belong to him. A prime example would be his proposed 'triangle' with the young Tesmans, a Bermuda triangle of intimacy if you will. Judge Brack has no clue that Hedda Tesman has absolutely no interest in being intimate with him, and for that matter with anyone, including her own husband. I predict that Hedda only leads Brack on to be able to say she exerts power over yet another individual, this time leading an older 'gentleman' to believe he has a place in the Tesmans' bedroom. To think the Judge advises Hedda to refuse Eilert Lovborg, because he would only get in the way of their arrangement...wow he is so beyond clueless. First off, he designates the Tesman's home as decent; his first mistake. There's no one else that would describe a household with a female like Hedda Gabler, who convinces people, or tries to, to kill themselves is far from decent. Judge Brack's obsession with Hedda is taken even further in the fourth act, where he threatens to blackmail her with possible scandal over Lovborg's death involving one of her pistols. The poor guy didn't need Hedda to be happy, he could have gone Mademoiselle Diana's House of 'Fun' and had the same level of pleasure, possibly more.Judge Brack has not made a significant change in his ways of thinking since my first impression of him, but I do think Hedda has him clearly out of his comfort zone as his actions become more assertive and demanding with time.