# Ghosts of the Past in Ghosts

> Theme guide for Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen.

The central metaphor of 'ghosts' represents inherited traits, dead ideas, and societal conventions that haunt the characters, as Mrs. Alving describes how inherited beliefs and her husband's sins continue to shape and destroy the present.

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