Like most of Ibsens work, the play is a bruising. As the play closes, Oswald begins to have his attack and his mother does not know whether to administer the poison or to endure the agony. Written in 1881 and first performed in 1882, Ghosts is a play by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Oswald then tells his mother that she must administer the medicine when the next attack comes. Alving effectively ends her communication with Pastor Manders and when Oswald tells his mother to give up the idea of mother-child affection. Alvings long speech about ghosts as dead ideas when Mrs.

This does not bother Oswald, but Regina refuses to stay. There are four big mentions of ghosts in the play: when Regina and Oswald are caught making out in Mrs. Alving then explains that Regina is in reality his half sister. Oswald knows that he is dying and wants to take the maid as his mistress so that the maid, Regina, will give him poison when he is next struck by the disease. Alving had indeed been a degenerated man and that Oswald caught the disease from his father. Oswald, however, believes his father to have been a perfect man. In a private talk with his mother, Oswald confesses that he has an incurable disease which the doctors think was inherited. Alving tells the Parson that her husband had been a complete degenerate, and she is using the rest of his money to build the orphanage so that she can leave only her money to her son Oswald, who has just arrived home from years and years abroad. This edifice is to be dedicated the next day, and her old friend Parson Manders has come to perform the ceremonies. Alving is building an orphanage as a memorial to her husband.

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