“A Doll’s House” and “Ghosts": Style and Social Criticism Ibsen truly shows his style and his social criticism in his works, “A Doll’s House” and “Ghosts.” Both works are done in the modern style of drama that he fathered. Each play is written around only a few main characters. In “A Doll’s House,” the play revolves around Nora and Tovrald Helmer and in “Ghosts” the play revolves around Mrs. Alving, Mr. Manders and Oswald Alving. Each play also demonstrates Ibsen’s style of having only one setting, the Helmer house and the Alving house, respectively. Another aspect of Ibsen’s work is that he tells the play th