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English

 

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Matthew J

 

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March 28, 2012

 

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At the end of the play it is not clear what she will do. Commentary The play raises an interesting issue of contagion. How has Oswald gotten syphilis from his father? Mrs. Alving is evidently not infected and Oswald had presumably never shown signs of congenital syphilis, although a physician in Paris told Oswald that he had been "worm-eaten since birth...
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See Barbara Fass Leavy's To Blight With Plague: Studies in a Literary Theme (New York University Press, 1992) for a full discussion of syphilis as a dramatic motif in "Ghosts." Leavy notes that the play evokes the myth of the Garden of Eden and the fall: the punishment (syphilis) for Captain Alving's sin is passed down through generations...
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