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26 Henrik Ibsen
cased in rotten bodies, sends Mrs. AWmg back to
her husband and her duties toward her home.
Helen Alving is young and immature. Besides,
she loves young Manders; his command is law to
her. She returns home, and for twenty-five years
suffers all the misery and torture of the damned.
That she survives is due mainly to her passionate
love for the child born of that horrible relation
ship her boy Oswald, her all in life. He must
be saved at any cost. To do that, she had sacri
ficed her great yearning for him and sent him
away from the poisonous atmosphere of her home.
And now he has returned, fine and free, much
to the disgust of Pastor Manders, whose limited
vision cannot conceive that out in the large world
free men and women can live a decent and cre
ative life.
Manders. But how is it possible that a a young
man or young woman with any decent principles can
endure to live in that way? in the eyes of all the
world !
Oswald. What are they to do? A poor young artist
a poor girl. It costs a lot of money to get married.
What are they to do?
Manders. What are they to do? Let me tell you,
Mr. Alving, what they ought to do. They ought to
exercise self-restraint from the first; that s what they
ought to do.
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