In the final analysis, the individual can never be free from his/her cultural identity, class, gender, race or ethnic background. Discuss this statement in relation to at least two of these aspects, with detailed reference to at least one text. Henrik Ibsen, a playwright of social reform, wrote Ghosts in 1881. The play is set in the bourgeois Norwegian society and is primarily about dishonesty, the patriarchy, hypocrisy, and above all to entertain his audience. …showed first 75 words of 1587 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1587 total…name of Captain Alving. Finally, illustrating best that the individual can never be free from his/her cultural identity, class or gender, Oswald is doomed to death because of the hereditary disease of syphilis that is passed down from his father. The play, through these characters illustrates, that to a great extent this statement is true, and no matter how hard the characters try, they can never free themselves of these Ghosts of the past.