refrained herself from confessing that her husband was morally corrupt, as she wants to maintain the family’s image. For instance, despite the fact that the late Captain Alving was a philandering alcoholic. He talks about the strange mechanisms of society which forces people to live up to other people’s expectations, that leads to severe consequences in the play. In Ghosts, Ibsen gives a strong message about the dynamics of the relationship between the individual and society.
Hence, it is clear why Ibsen is considered as the father of the modern drama. George Steiner while discussing Ibsen say that, “with Ibsen the history of drama begins anew”, he also points out that, in the hands of Henrik Ibsen, drama has undergone a significant change in form and content. They have no vitality, but they cling to us all the same, and we can't get rid of them.” Henrik Ibsen, Ghosts It's all sorts of dead ideas, and lifeless old beliefs, and so forth. “It's not only what we have inherited from our father and mother that walks in us. Modern European Drama 1 Roushan Kumar Singh Professor Kasturi Chaudhary 17/72846 14th April 2020
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