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The Poltergeist’s Fate
Reality is defined in the dictionary as something that is neither derivative nor dependent, but exists necessarily; Isbens notions on the matter are not as easily defined. He expresses his views on reality with the play Ghosts by challenging the audience to consider that reality is simply our fantasy’s haunted by phantoms of the past. Every character in the play Ghosts is plagued by actions, people, and events in the past that continue to weigh heavily on their conscience. The characters in this play experience their picturesque life crumbling before them, while addressing the ghosts they are bonded to within themselves they are struggling to accept the responsibility of their actions, hence affecting their present lives that make up the reality of the world they live in. Consequently, the characters are able to refuse to acknowledge their burdens, but ultimately it will catch up with them. The author Henrik Ibsen wrote Ghosts to elaborate that fate is similar in the sense of a phantom by forever tormenting its victims.
Ibsen depicts many characters as having shortcomings especially apparent when faced with virtuous hardships. The author specifically uses Regina, the maid, to showcase that even admirable morals fall victim to fate. One doesn’t want “To think that the glorious freedom of the beautiful life over there should be so besmirched” (18) by exemplifying Regina as a tormented soul by allowing her desires for a luxurious life to terrorize her conscience. The negative feelings ensnaring her never quit teasing her with the prodigious opportunities and uncomplicated life she never had. She yearns for a chance at a blissful life filled with fortune and adoration, but unbeknown to her “to crave for ...

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...ome control when concerning their lives and futures. Almost everyone desires to become successful or happy without giving much thought to destiny or the consequences of one’s past coming back into present day. Ibsen mocks our ignorance and enlightens the truth that we are never truly free of our past and it will continue to haunt us in our future, whether we choose to accept it, deny it, deserve it, or don’t deserve it. Even innocent children hold the suppressing obscurities that crush idealism and block the open path to freedom from the past. Just as the title suggests, the ghosts of our past are forever entwined within us, and will govern our fates whether we take heed of our actions or not. The potential to define ones sense of reality without taking your past in consideration is the exact definition on living in a fantasy.

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