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Ghosts 33
knew anything of father. I don t remember anything
about him except that he once made me sick.
Mrs. Alving. That s a terrible way to speak!
Should not a son love his father, all the same?
Oswald. When a son has nothing to thank his father
for? has never known him? Do you really cling to the
old superstition? you who are so enlightened in other
ways ?
Mrs. Alving. Is that only a superstition?
In truth, a superstition one that is kept like
the sword of Damocles over the child who does
not ask to be given life, and is yet tied with a
thousand chains to those who bring him into a
cheerless, joyless, and wretched world.
The voice of Henrik Ibsen in
"
Ghosts
"
sounds
like the trumpets before the walls of Jericho.
Into the remotest nooks and corners reaches his
voice, with its thundering indictment of our moral
cancers, our social poisons, our hideous crimes
against unborn and born victims. Verily a more
revolutionary condemnation has never been ut
tered in dramatic form before or since the great
Henrik Ibsen.
We need, therefore, not be surprised at the vile
abuse and denunciation heaped upon Ibsen s head
by the Church, the State, and other moral eunuchs.
But the spirit of Henrik Ibsen could not be
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