Henrik Ibsen - Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen - Ghosts The innovative dramas of Henrik Ibsen created a sensation among 19th-century audiences with their mordant attacks on social conventions. In it, the playwright assailed the…
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Henrik Ibsen - Ghosts
The innovative dramas of Henrik Ibsen created a sensation among 19th-century audiences with their mordant attacks on social conventions. 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.
Helen Alving, has accepted her pastor's counsel and endured her husband's many infidelities in silence. 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.The sins of the past are at the heart of the play, whose haunted heroine, Mrs. Ten years after Alving's death, she is to dedicate an orphanage in his memory.
Her son Oswald, kept innocent of his father's profligacy, returns home for the