简介：HelenAlvingisabouttodedicateanorphanageshehasbuiltinthememoryofherdeadhusband,CaptainAlving.Sherevealstoherspiritualadvisor,PastorManders,thatshehashiddentheevilsofhermarriage,andhasbuilttheorphanagetodepleteherhusband'swealthsothattheirson,Oswald,mightnotinheritanythingfromhim.PastorMandershadpreviouslyadvisedhertoreturntoherhusbanddespitehisphilandering,andshefollowedhisadviceinthebeliefthatherloveforherhusbandwouldeventuallyreformhim.Howeverherhusband'sphilanderingcontinueduntilhisdeath,andMrs.Alvingwasunabletoleavehimpriortohisdeathforfearofbeingshunnedbythecommunity.DuringtheactionoftheplayshediscoversthathersonOswald(whomshehadsentawaysothathewouldnotbecorruptedbyhisfather)issufferingfrominheritedsyphilis,and(worse)hasfalleninlovewithReginaEngstrand,Mrs.Alving'smaid,whoisrevealedtobeanillegitimatedaughterofCaptainAlving,andtherebyOswald'sownhalf-sister.…