"Ghosts" By Henrik Ibsen: A Critical Essay

The Effects Society Has On the Characters in “Ghosts”
Henrik Ibsen drew ideas for his plays from events in his life. Ibsen was born in Skien, Norway. During this time there was some tension between the Danish and the Norwegians. This animosity between the two cultures played a large part in Ibsen’s life and his early work (Bloom 10).
In Ibsen’s early childhood his parents were social and prosperous people. But when he was seven years of age his father was forced to mortgage their house and they went into financial ruin. He was forced to apprentice an apothecary to earn money, but he was shunned by the community when he had an illegitimate son at the age of eighteen. Although he never knew his son he still fulfilled his financial obligation to him. This event could be a prime example used by Ibsen for his play, “Ghosts” (Bloom 10).
When Henrik Ibsen wrote “Ghosts” he had been living in Italy. Here he started to write a short autobiography. This work was prob...