Henrik Ibsen, the believer of Naturalism and Darwinism has succeeded in presenting the social problems which are mostly least thought about in an appropriate manner. He turned the theatre from a place from which the audience emerged with a compulsive feeling to reconsider basic principles which they had never before seriously questioned. His enduring greatness as dramatist is not due to his technical innovation, but due to the depth and subtlety of his understanding human character. The approach, to the analysis of Ibsen’s characters in his plays is indeed that of Naturalism that uses detailed realism to suggest that social conditions, heredity and environment have inescapable forces in shaping human characters. In Ghosts he even managed to do without a plot in the conventional sense of the terms. Ibsen’s contemporaries saw Ghosts as a play about physical illness and failed to see what it was really about. The play is about the devitalizing effect of dump acceptance of convention. In fact, Oswald’s very illness could be a symbol of the dead customs and traditions which cripple us and lay waste to our lives. Thus, all human beings are presented as entrapped in their social milieu and determined by “inevitable laws of heredity and environment” in the plays of Ibsen.