The plays in this volume focus on the family and how it struggles to stay
together by telling lie -and exposing them. In Ghosts, Osvald Alving returns
home only to discover the truth about the father he always looked up to, and
learns the horrific effect his father's debauchery has had on him. It was
Ibsen's most provocative drama, stripping away the surface of a middle-class
family to expose layers of hypocrisy and immorality. A Public Enemy sets two
brothers against each other when one wishes to make public the facts about the
polluted water in the public baths of their home town. And When We