Hedda Gabler was one of those plays that challenge you to think. Ibsen was part of the 19th century but this play means so much to our culture even today. Everybody wants freedom for themselves as well as control over their own lives. For Hedda, death ended up being the only true way to freedom, which is accented in today's society. The problem is that no body really knows what freedom is and I don't believe we can ever have true earthly freedom. There is freedom of sin through Jesus and even freedom of worrying about anything. The way I see it, God is the only way to being free of anything in this world because by surrendering the control He allows us to have in this world is also surrendering our worries and society to Him.
I agree that freedom is everyone's ultimate goal and I don't believe that people can truly be free until they meet God face to face either, which is weird to think about cause this is America essentially "freedom" is the center of what being an American stands for. But true freedom is unattainable to humankind so really only in death can a person become free because that is when they basically come to God and receive ultimate and total freedom.
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