![]() Alving was unable to leave him prior for fear of being shunned by the community. However her husband's philandering continued until his death, and Mrs. Pastor Manders had previously advised her to return to her husband despite his philandering, and she followed his advice in the belief that her love for her husband would eventually reform him. ![]() She reveals to her spiritual advisor, Pastor Manders, that she has hidden the evils of her marriage, and has built the orphanage to deplete her husband's wealth so that their son, Oswald, might not inherit anything from him. Helen Alving is about to dedicate an orphanage she has built in the memory of her dead husband, Captain Alving. Ibsen preferred writing in the language he was taught. ![]() For more on that discussion, see Norwegian Language Struggle. That is because Danish was the main written language in Norway at the time. ![]() ![]() The word "Gengangere" is Danish, not Norwegian. On an interesting side note, the play was originally written in Danish. It was written in 1881 and first staged in 1882. Ghosts, originally titled Gengangere (literally translated as Ghosts), is a play by Henrik Ibsen. ![]()
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