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Ghosts(Ibsen)
The play Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen&some critics of him
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Oswald's illness represents | useless ideals |
| light represents | honesty in facing facts |
| darkness represents | dark recesses of the soul & the lying about reality |
| fire represents | purification and a bringing to light |
| this critic admits flaws in Ghosts, but says it was important technically & historically | Archer |
| this critic says Ibsen was a romantic thinker, but realistic writer | Koht |
| this critic said Ibsen was exposing the harm in a commitment to ideals | Mencken |
| this critic said Ibsen introduces the discussion as a part of the play and the real test of a playwright | Shaw |
| which critic said:"instead of a complicated plot, this author states, Ibsen shows us scenes through "a terrifying keyhole"" | Menken |
| which critic said: This piece asserts that Ibsen saw idealism as a social force on all types of people and refers to the "mischief of idealism" | Shaw |
| which critic said: Part of the technique discussed in this piece is "tricking the spectator into forming a meanly false judgment, and then convict him of it in the next act." | Shaw |
| which critic's essay addressed the objective anti-idealist plays and the technical novelty in Ibsen's plays | Shaw |
| which critic claims that in this type of play, drama arises from the conflict of unsettled ideals, rather than "accidents". | Shaw |
| wich critic points out some of the "flaws" of Ghosts | Archer |
| which critic points out that the character manders is more of a "type" than an individual | Archer (but Shaw quotes Archer) |
| which critic asserts that Doll's House is kept alive by its exhibition of human nature, marriage, and jealousy | Shaw |
| which critic says that despite its flaws, Ghosts is an important play because it is "technical[ly] and spiritual[ly] original" | Archer |
| which critic says Ibsen's plays did not "caress and soothe," but "arrested and shocked" | Mencken |
| which critic points out that Ibsen believed in all the things that "the normal, law-abiding citizen of Christendom believes in" | Mencken |
| which critic said One of the hallmark's of Ibsen's style was simplicity | Mencken |
| which critic poitns out that the "catastrophe" of the play is perhaps a little too sudden and exaggerated | Archer |
| which character says "I am a sick man, mother. I can't be much taken up with other people; I have enough to do thinking about myself" | Oswald |
| which character is dying of an illness | Oswald |
| which characters are obsessed with the ideal of duty | Mrs. Alving and Manders |
| what does the orphanage, that was going to be in Mr. Alving's name, become | a "refuge for wandering mariners" a prostitution estabilshment |
| which character says "Everything will burn. All that recalls father's memory is doomed. Here am I, too, burning down." and what is this character refering to | Oswald and the he's comparing to the burning of the orphanage with his dying of the illness (everything his father has done is coming undone to reveal his true personality) |
| which character says "And unfortunately I cannot tell how long I shall be able to retain control of these things-whether public opinion may not compel me to retire. It entirely depends upon the result of the official inquiry into the fire--" | Manders |
| which character is a religious figure | Manders |
| which character is a servant | Regina |
| which characters are Mr. Alving's children | Regina & Oswald |
| what is the first sign of Oswald becoming more like his father | smoking his father's pipe |
| which characters died before the play began | Mr.(Captain) Alving and Johanna |
| who is Johanna | the servant Mr. Alving committed adultary with and got pregnant with Regina |
| where does Mrs. Alving live? | in Norway's countryside |
| who did Mrs. Alving run to after she tried to leave her unhappy marriage (hint: this person reminded her of her duty) | Manders |
| what physical deformity does Jakob Engstrand have | a deformed leg |
| which character sent Oswald to Paris to live with artists so that he wouldn't learn about his father's faults | Mrs. Alving |
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