Ethical Consequences of Psycho-Sexual Oppression in Ibsen’s Ghosts

Abstract

in life that are related to the personal psychic. Ibsen presents extra marital sexual relationship creates various moral and psychological problems. Most of the characters are forced to involve in immortal activities. In the novel, the writer highlights how individuals are forced to repress their emotional urges and sexual passions in a society where rigid morality codes and conventions overrule lives. Ghosts talks about psychoanalysis, shows all the characters of the novel face several problems that are related to person's psychology.

Ibsen evokes how extra marital sexual relationship creates moral and psychological problems in human life. Ibsen has presented moral and psychological problems in life of Oswald, and his father and mother. Mrs. Alving's husband was an immoral philanderer but she is bound to protect her late husband's reputation. She not only ends up "living a lie" and building a memorial to her husband's false reputation but also ruins the life of her husband's two children Oswald and Regina. Mrs. Alving wants to keep her son Oswald far from the immoral traits of his father but despite all here efforts, she feels that all people are haunted not only by their inheritance from specific people but also by the general superstitions that exist within a community.

Oswald and Regina are "the Ghosts" of inheritance and Mrs. Alving, being bound to protect her husband's false reputation, also consider herself the ghost of superstition, Social problems of the individual struggling against the demand of society.