This essay considers sexual difference and gender performativity in Henrik Ibsen’s (1828 – 1906) Hedda Gabler (1890). Actually Ibsen criticizes the social condition of Norwegian society during the nineteenth century. Furthermore Ibsen’s plays concern fundamental values and rights of human beings. As a social reformer, he challenges social conventions that are at heart to personal development and liberty. His themes are universal freedom of speech, repression of women, the institution of marriage, business ethics, religion, education, and legislation. Through his plays, Ibsen shows that each human being has infinite worth. He shows that the patriarchal system in this play attacks women because the woman does not have an important role in family until she is marginalized and oppressed. This essay applies feminism by using sexuality, and the terms gender and feminine defined by Judith Butler (1956). Feminist theory aims at understanding the nature of inequality of women and focusing on gender politics, power relations and sexuality. It highlights the real life depictions in literature in the nineteenth century to show and criticize how women are oppressed and stereotyped, especially in literature, and underscores the drastic consequences of the unjust attitudes toward women. Patriarchy and phallocentrism can easily be seen in this play, i.e. a man is superior, intelligent, and strong, while a woman is inferior, passive and imperfect. Ibsen does not suggest the solutions to what was called ‘the women question,’ like problems that Hedda encounters in her family and society.