DRAMATIS PERSONAE
Mrs. Alving (a widow).
Oswald Alving (her son, an artist).
Manders (the Pastor of the parish).
Engstrand (a carpenter).
Regina Engstrand (his daughter, in Mrs Alving's service).
(The action takes place at Mrs Alving's house on one of the larger fjords of Western Norway.)
The Question and Answer section for Ghosts is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
Osvald believes marriage to be a sham... as most husbands he interacts with in the artisitic world are complete hypocrites. Osvald inherited syphilis from his father.
Mrs. Alving, the female lead in the play, resists society in her own way. She tries to understand new ideas and orient those in her own way, yet she never wants to understand the truth. Her entire life is a disaster because she not only uses lies...
In every Ibsenian drama, society is a dead institution and is no longer relevant to the quotidian. This is why the play has been entitled ‘Ghosts’. It is the society, its dead customs, and its morals that act as ghosts, haunting and terrifying...
