The innovative dramas of Henrik Ibsen created a sensation among 19th-century audiences with their mordant attacks on social conventions.
Alving to confront her own "ghosts."
A powerful and engrossing psychological drama, Ghosts serves as an excellent entrée to Ibsen\'s other works and helps confirm his status as "the father of modern drama.".
This disastrous romance, along with Oswald\'s increasing symptoms of the venereal disease inherited from his father, force Mrs.
Oswald\'s attraction to the housemaid -- in reality, his half-sister -- conjures up the ghost of his parents\' unhappy marriage.
Her son Oswald, kept innocent of his father\'s profligacy, returns home for the dedication.
Ten years after Alving\'s death, she is to dedicate an orphanage in his memory.
Helen Alving, has accepted her pastor\'s counsel and endured her husband\'s many infidelities in silence.
The sins of the past are at the heart of the play, whose haunted heroine, Mrs.
Ibsen substituted the modern scientific idea of heredity for the ancient Greek concept of fate, exposing hidden sins of the past as the roots of corruption.
In it, the playwright assailed the hypocrisy of moral codes, offering a daring treatment of such then-taboo issues as infidelity, venereal disease, and illegitimacy.
Among the finest of these ground-breaking works was Ghosts , first performed in 1881.
The innovative dramas of Henrik Ibsen created a sensation among 19th-century audiences with their mordant attacks on social conventions
