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        <title><![CDATA[The &quot;ghost&quot; that haunts the characters in this play is Captain...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The &quot;ghost&quot; that haunts the characters in this play is Captain Alving. Even though he is dead and his ghost never literally appears during the play, his memory and his actions when he was living drive the plot.As the play opens, the Captain's widow is building an orphanage in his memory. She's not doing it out of love, however. Alving was a degenerate, in her words. He had many affairs, and they had been separated for many years....]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 07:47:19 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[how are the social and scientific theories that underpin naturalistic...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[how are the social and scientific theories that underpin naturalistic drama expressed in Ibsen's Ghosts ]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 02:57:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The old adage &quot;the truth will win out&quot; certainly applies to...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The old adage &quot;the truth will win out&quot; certainly applies to this play. Mrs. Alving has been keeping some dangerous secrets that cause a lot of pain when they are finally revealed.Both of her secrets involve her son Oswald. The first concerns his health. Captain Alving was a cruel and unfaithful husband. She left him after only one year of marriage because of his infidelities. And it is because of those infidelities that Oswald has...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:26:21 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[In &quot;Ghosts,&quot; what secrets is Mrs. Alving keeping from Oswald...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[In &quot;Ghosts,&quot; what secrets is Mrs. Alving keeping from Oswald and Regina?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 06:45:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The ghosts represent the topics that are not openly talked about....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The ghosts represent the topics that are not openly talked about. Euthanasia, infidelity, incest, venereal disease,  and illegitimate children  to name just a few. These subjects have not been addressed by the Captains family until now. They &quot;haunt&quot; them until at last, they must be dealt with.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:45:58 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What role do the ghosts play in Ibsen's &quot;Ghosts&quot;?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What role do the ghosts play in Ibsen's &quot;Ghosts&quot;?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 02:35:07 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Pastor Manders seems is the flawed man of God. It is his duty to promote...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Pastor Manders seems is the flawed man of God. It is his duty to promote morality, yet he worries about his reputation and the public opinion , as well. He struggles with the idea of insuring the orphanage, because he feels people might think he should be able to protect it with God. Mrs. Alving is at first the &quot;victim&quot; of a cruel husband. She appears to have been the long-suffering wife of a philanderer, but as the course of the...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:04:15 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What does each of the characters symbolize/represent in the play?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[<p>The characters include: a. Pastor Manders b. Mrs. Alving c. Oswald Alving d. Regina e. Engstrand</p>]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:31:57 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[The sun represents light and truth.  However, in this play, deception...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The sun represents light and truth.  However, in this play, deception is a central theme.  All the truths are hidden by the characters, who manipulate, hide and use subterfuge.  They must pay the consequences for this. The main conflict of this play stems from the fact that Mrs. Alving feels remorse for her part in helping to deceive the world about what sort of man Captain Alving was. She feels that she should have told the truth to...]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 20:38:25 PST</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[What is the metaphorical significance of Oswald's shouting, &quot;the...]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[What is the metaphorical significance of Oswald's shouting, &quot;the sun --the sun&quot; in the last part of the play?]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:49:08 PST</pubDate>
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