Hedda Gabler more important than the rational one. Ibsen was interested in the then-embryonic science of mental illness and had a poor understanding by present-day standards. His "Ghosts" is another example of this. Examples of the troubled 19th-century female might include oppressed, but "normal", wilful characters; women in abusive or loveless relationships; and those with some type of organic brain disease. Ibsen is content to leave such explanations unsettled. Bernard Paris interprets Gabler's actions as stemming from her "need for freedom [which is] as compensatory as her craving for power... her desire to shape a man's destiny." The play was performed in
Neal Gabler to be movies for teenagers and there ought to be "Police Academys" – so long as they're well-made and I certainly won't begrudge anyone that – and there ought to be "Tender Mercies" and there ought to be "Indiana Joneses"." Gabler was one of four panelists on the Fox News Channel show, "Fox News Watch". On February 2, 2008, the show's host, Eric Burns, announced Gabler had left the show to work for PBS. In 2016 Gabler attracted commentary for his cover story in "The Atlantic" entitled "The Shame of Middle Class Americans", in which he described the precarious debt