# Hedda Gabler — Key Concepts & Themes

> Key concepts in Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen.

- [Social constraint and boredom](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/concepts/social-constraint-and-boredom.md): Hedda Gabler is trapped in bourgeois marriage — her boredom is not mood but rebellion without an outlet.
- [Power and manipulation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/concepts/power-and-manipulation.md): Hedda exercises power through others’ manuscripts, pistols, and secrets — especially over Lovborg and Brack.
- [Marriage and domesticity](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/concepts/marriage-and-domesticity.md): The Tesman household runs on academic ambition and female service — Hedda rejects domesticity but cannot escape its economics.
- [Destruction and creation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/hedda_gabler_se/concepts/destruction-and-creation.md): Lovborg’s manuscript is the play’s creative life; Hedda destroys it and rewrites the meaning of his death.

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