Ghosts was Ibsen’s greatest scandalous success and helped place him as a central figure of the European avant-garde. Alving’s clutching of the pills and wondering what to do as her son suffers from an incurable disease, inherited from his father. The action continues at Alvings’ house and closes with Mrs. In the final act, the orphanage is completely burned down. The struggle concludes with Engstrand’s victory-he enters the room despite Regina’s objection. Thus the play opens with Regina and Engstrand engaged in a struggle for territorial possession -whether or not he can be allowed to enter the living room from the garden room. Jakob Engstrand, a carpenter, works on the “Captain Alving Memorial”, an orphanage or asylum, that is opening the next day of the action of the play. The play was set in the late 19th century Norway in the wealthy household of the Alvings. For a long time, Ghosts continued to be associated with scandal and 20 years after its publication, it stopped the ageing Ibsen from being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. It was beyond anything that Ibsen had predicted. The play immediately aroused a dismay and antagonism. Thus, Ghosts occurred and was published by Gyldendal of Copenhagen on the 13th December, 1881. He was unable to write any actual writing thereafter and he only brood upon the theme and characters. After completing A Doll’s House in 1879, Ibsen returned from Italy to Munich in the autumn of 1879.
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