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	Ghosts (play) Summary
		In western Germanic languages words similar to the modern English ghost and the German Geist seem to be derived from roots indicating fury, wounding, or tearing in pieces.
		Ghosts (original Norwegian title: Gjengangere) is a play by the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen.
		By the end of Ghosts, the true essence of the characters are revealed and nothing is as it had appeared.
	www.bookrags.com /Ghosts_(play) (330 words)

	Ghosts: Phantoms Within (Site not responding. Last check: )
		These plays all deal with social problems which remain as pressing today as they were in Ibsen's day.
		Although each play is independent and complete in itself, each play also emerges out of, and develops from the preceding.
		It alludes on the one hand to the sins of the fathers that are inflicted on their children, here in the form of a syphilitic condition which Oswald has been told he inherited from his father.
	www.bard.org /Education/Other/ghostsphantomswi.html (755 words)

	HENRIK IBSEN - 1828-1906 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Ghosts was actually written in response to the criticism of Nora in The Doll House for leaving her children/marriage.
		What is ironic is that while Nora perceives herself as a doll because first her father and then her husband has had control of her, Torvald is also a doll in that he is manipulated as a puppet would be by public perception--afraid of what his co-workers would think of his friendship of Krogstad.
		At the play's end, Nora has gone from being a child or plaything through the painful process of becoming a human being whereas Torvald is more pathetic because he has had his life shattered and he has no inkling as to why.
	www.selu.edu /Academics/Faculty/cfrederic/henrikibsen.htm (648 words)

	Play Google Ghosts
		PLAYING the word game Google™ Ghosts is easy, though it may sound complicated at first.
		Any number can play - on a single computer or a network - but it's best to limit the game to about six players.
		In Google Ghosts the first player to enter letters (or numbers) can type a single letter, part of a word, a whole word or even several whole words.
	www.tauroscatology.com /ghosts.htm (1141 words)

	The Book of Ghosts : Sample Reading 2 (Site not responding. Last check: )
		he unavoidable omen ghost is a ghost whose appearance signals that something terrible is about to happen such as a disaster, death or illness.
		The ghost was believed to be the ghost of her great-great-great grandfather.
		Despite her families passionate belief in the ghost, there were times that Michelle did not believe the stories until the ghost appeared to her.
	www.zerotime.com /storefront/ghostbook/sample02.htm (689 words)

	Ghosts -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Written by Norwegian Henrik Ibsen in 1881, the play Gengangere (Ghosts) deals with such topics as marital infidelity, public hypocrisy, and venereal disease in a frank and open manner that shocked the audience of the time.
		Ghost stories exist in all kinds of literature, from folktales to religious works to modern horror stories, and in most cultures.
		Ghost bats are tropical, but only one, also called the Australian giant false vampire bat (Macroderma gigas), is found outside Central and South America.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9324540?tocId=9324540 (850 words)

	Arcade Reviews: High Quality Reviews - Review (Pac-Man)
		It is still safe to eat a ghost while it is flashing, but when the flashing stops, the ghost is back to normal and touching it will make Pac-Man loose one of the three lives he starts with.
		The ghosts home is in the center of the screen away from all the Power-Pills that are placed in the 4 corners of each maze.
		A little tune plays at the start of the game and during play there is a sound similar to a police siren that starts slowly and plays faster as more Pac-Dots are eaten by Pac-Man. The siren effect increases tension in the game and adds a lot to the game play.
	a_reviews.tripod.com /pacman/pacman.htm (1047 words)

	From British Drama 1890 to 1950
		Ghosts* was a play that proved its point—that convention haunts the living from the grave—by eliciting the very response from some of its critics that it exposed as ghost-ridden in the play.
		These plays are remarkable in their attempt, not entirely successful, to avoid melodrama, to break down character stereotypes, and, in the longer plays, to give more depth and variety to the plot than was usual in melodrama and farce.
		The play is the story of a charming lady who, instead of forgiving a philandering but abjectly apologetic husband, as the worldly-wise raisonneur would counsel, decides to retaliate with a little romantic adventure of her own.
	chuma.cas.usf.edu /~dietrich/britishdrama2.htm (13988 words)

	30 Ghosts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The title is based on a quote from Arthur C. Clark that "behind every man there stands 30 ghosts." I couldn't track that quote down, but it sounds Clarkish to me. There were only a handful of ghosts in the play, not thirty, though.
		The play is a ghost story for adults, and I found it very engaging.
		In this play, the ghosts usually stayed in the background and talked around the living, but sometimes they took center stage.
	www.cincomsmalltalk.com /userblogs/troy/blogView?showComments=true&entry=3276746952 (256 words)

	San Jose Stage Company - 2002-2003 Season
		These were plays written in modern prose that explored truth and falsity in ordinary middle-class society and ordinary middle-class people.
		Quite surprisingly, the play was first produced in the United States, in Chicago's Aurora Turner Hall in 1892 — the first recorded instance of any of Ibsen's plays produced in the United States.
		While audiences of the time saw the GHOSTS as being about the ravages of sex and disease, modern audiences tend to see the play as warning about the soul-destroying effect of the acceptance of convention and the strangling ties of the past.
	www.sanjose-stage.com /seasonGhostsWriter.html (1371 words)

	Ghosts (play) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alving was unable to leave him because of the constraints of 19th-century morality, and during the action of the play she discovers that her son Osvald (whom she had sent away so that he would not be corrupted by his father) has congenital syphilis, and has fallen in love with Regina Engstrand, Mrs.
		Those idealized beliefs were only the "ghosts" of the past, haunting the present.
		Free eBook of Ghosts at Project Gutenberg (translated by R. Farquharson Sharp)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ghosts_(play) (336 words)

	Hungry Ghosts: Alone, Alone: Pitchfork Review (Site not responding. Last check: )
		I suppose I should have guessed that "Hungry Ghosts" is less a bandname than a euphemism for aural riptides that lap so calmly against your toes that you aren't alert to being swept down, under, and out to sea.
		The pacing and tone of the Hungry Ghosts recalls floating in deep sea waters between the two continents that laid the groundwork for this album.
		And the Hungry Ghosts don't mean the "I just broke up with my boyfriend" kind of alone; their repetition assures that they're referencing a more existential variety of the word.
	www.pitchforkmedia.com /record-reviews/h/hungry-ghosts/alone-alone.shtml (777 words)

	abs-cbnNEWS.com - On The Dot
		Ghosts are strictly defined as "visual apparitions of a deceased human being and the term implies that this is the spirit of the person it represents."
		In his paper entitled "Are Ghosts for Real," Martin said the custom of closing the eyes of the dead is said to have arisen out of the fear that the ghost would find its way home again.
		A somewhat plausible theory is that ghosts are telepathic images, that is, a sensitive person would pick up past vibrations from the area they were in and witness an event or person as it appeared many years ago.
	www.abs-cbnnews.com /images/news/microsites/onddot/dotghost.htm (1699 words)

	Game Over Online Magazine - Pac-Man Vs.
		The person controlling Pac-Man is able to see the entire map and the current position of the ghosts, while the ones who are controlling the ghosts only get to see a small portion of the surrounding map as they move about.
		Ghosts are able to accumulate points as well, but not nearly as quickly.
		There will still be three on-screen ghosts when playing with two people, but the other two ghosts will be computer controlled.
	www.game-over.net /reviews.php?page=gamecubereviews&id=54 (832 words)

	FamilyFun: A Host of Ghosts
		To make a ghost head, stuff a small white garbage or paper bag with crumpled newspaper or leaves to the size you like.
		Gather your ghosts around the tree or pole--with a foot or two between each one--and push the dowels into the earth so that the sheets touch the ground.
		Angle the ghosts so that they are leaning slightly backward, then knot the corners of the sheets together as if the ghosts were holding hands.
	familyfun.go.com /arts-and-crafts/season/feature/famf108yard/famf108yard4.html (324 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Ghosts (Site not responding. Last check: )
		A play of stinging contemporaneity--about religious and societal hypocrisy, guilt that feeds on innocence, their terror of the inevitable, and the battle between truth and darkness, freedom and constraint.
		Although Henrik Ibsen is the first great modern dramatist, his play "Ghosts" ("Gengangere") bears a strong similarity to ancient Greek drama, where the "tragic flaw" of the protagonist lives on in his children.
		"Ghosts" is probably the Ibsen drama that relies most on symbolism, from the heavy use of light/dark imagery to the purifying aspects of fire, to the obvious symbolism of ghosts.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/1556852746 (1015 words)

	O'Neill play summons ghosts of actors past (Site not responding. Last check: )
		The play imagines a tortuous night of release and rough salvation for the sodden elder sibling.
		The early scenes of the four-act play, which runs just under three hours, overflow with rich acting and include a delicious interaction when the Hogans torment their wealthy next-door neighbor, Harder (Tuck Milligan).
		The tone of the play shifts with the entrance of James Tyrone (Gabriel Byrne.
	seattlepi.nwsource.com /theater/moonq.shtml (923 words)

	This Day in History
		The play, which dealt with syphilis, was swiftly and universally reviled by conventionally minded critics.
		He wrote his first play, Cataline, at the age of 22 and at age 23 was hired as stage manager of a theater, where he soon became director and playwright, expected to write one play a year.
		The plays he wrote during this period established his reputation as a world-class writer and playwright.
	www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?category=literary&month=10272955&day=10272978 (348 words)

	village voice > theater > Henrik Ibsen's Ghosts, adapted by Ingmar Bergman by Michael Feingold
		And so we arrive at Ghosts, a play that is both overfamiliar and unknown, quaintly archaic and frantically up to date, the burning scandal and censorable object of 120 years ago made white-hot again by our own moral backsliding and technological progress.
		Alving's several scenes with Manders were combined into one long one, much of it played static, on the long couch, both of them sitting stiffly till her getting up became a shock.
		Jan Malmsjö, so wonderfully sly last year as Hummel in Ghost Sonata, was a conventional and unmagnetic Manders; the character must be a pompous buffoon, but he must also be a charismatic man with whom this Helen would want to flee her husband.
	www.villagevoice.com /issues/0325/feingold.php (1461 words)

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		First published in 1881, the play had to wait ten years for its first production, and then it was roundly denounced by most of the critics as immoral and disgusting.
		Since it deals with adultery, venereal disease, and incest, the reaction of contemporary establishment types is not surprising, but I doubt that we today are so unshakably enlightened or jaded that we can afford to patronize Victorian repression as a thing of the past.
		It would be hard to improve upon "Ghosts" as an indictment of Victorian repression and the disastrous consequences of keeping certain secrets.
	www.goletavalleyvoice.com /cgi-bin/entertain/readarticle.cgi?article=856 (440 words)

	Classics Network -- Essay -- The Significance of the Title in Ibsen's Ghosts
		The audience, along with Osvald, is reminded that “the sins of the father are revisited on the sons.” The “ghosts” of the past cannot be escaped.
		During the play, the “ghosts” of past events takes “cruel revenge” upon the characters, who have to face their greatest fears.
		The “ghosts” of society’s beliefs and values, and their affect on the individual, is central to the text.
	www.classicsnetwork.com /showessayprint.asp?IDNo=1008 (1824 words)

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		Note, however, that any ghost that you eat will rush to the box in the middle of the screen and will emerge their original color.
		The dark blue ghosts are harmless while they're dark blue, but you have to avoid a ghost that's any other color.
		If the ghost is really close, they won't be able to react to a turn and will instead go straight in the same direction that you were going.
	www.cheatcc.com /gc/sg/pac_man_vs.txt (2457 words)

	'Fortinbras' puts spin on Shakespeare
		The concept of the play "Fortinbras" can simply be summed up in the words of the title character: "I'm not here to finish their story, they were here to begin mine.
		In keeping with the theme of the play the ghosts act very differently from the characters they portrayed in the traditional version of "Hamlet." In death Polonius cannot speak, because in life he gave too much advice, none of which was heeded.
		Hamlet's ghost is trapped in a box due to his lack of decisive ability in life.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V138/N06/06-fortin.06d.html (655 words)

	comparison compare contrast essays - Essay on Sin in Sophocles' Oedipus the King and Ibsen's Ghosts
		Although these plays were written for very different reasons and under different circumstances, the universal theme connecting them is mankind's liability to sin because the results affect a greater whole.
		One of the more specific themes of these plays is the negative effect that parents' sins have upon the generations to follow.
		In Oedipus the King, Oedipus is born the son of Laius and Jocasta, the king and queen of Thebes.
	www.123helpme.com /preview.asp?id=10094 (1545 words)

	Tucson Weekly: Ibsen Revenant (October 18 - October 24, 2001)
		Ghosts took the scale of drama down to the human level.
		Their plays together include Hot L Baltimore, The Rimers of Eldritch, The Mound Builders, Talley's Folly and Fifth of July.
		Two years ago, in a workshop at Arizona State University for a new Wilson play with Mason directing, they spent the intermission dissecting the performance thus far.
	www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/2001-10-18/review.html (995 words)

	Monsters At Play: GHOSTS OF EDENDALE Review
		Call them memory, call them ghosts, their presence can be sensed by a few - the few who are touched by madness.
		Rachel finds this to be deeply disturbing but the worst is yet to come as the shadows of the past return to their old haunts...
		GHOSTS OF EDENDALE is a response by the ghosts of past - you want to mess with us, we'll mess with you.
	www.monstersatplay.com /review/dvd/g/goe.php (1153 words)

	Ghosts - a play by Henrik Ibsen
		Not only does this pioneer of modern dramatic art undermine in Ghosts the Social Lie and the paralyzing effect of Duty, but the uselessness and evil of Sacrifice, the dreary Lack of Joy and of Purpose in Work are brought to light as most pernicious and destructive elements in life.
		She learns soon enough that her beloved boy had inherited a terrible disease from his father, as a result of which he will never again be able to work.
		There must be Ghosts all the country over, as thick as the sand of the sea.
	www.theatredatabase.com /19th_century/henrik_ibsen_011.html (1970 words)

	Caxtonian: March 2003
		Alving is forced to see the curse her husband has laid upon her life as the orphanage burns down and, in one of the most wrenching moments in all European theater, she helps Osvald commit suicide to spare him the ravages of his disease.
		The father of the revolution was the French novelist, Emile Zola, who saw life as a struggle for survival and that the outcome of that struggle was determined by the collision between genetics and environment.
		Ghosts was forbidden public performance in England for nearly 40 years, and even then it was only allowed performance in front of British troops departing for France during World Wear I — the original VD movie we all suffered through in high school sex education classes!
	www.caxtonclub.org /reading/2003/Mar/ghosts.htm (1468 words)

	Ibsen Voyages - Realism and A Doll House
		These word-clusters, where the word is usually repeated three times, change their emphases and meanings within the evolution of the play: that is, the dialectic at work in the play is revealed in the evolution of the words the characters speak.
		But the theme of the play is that to grow out of the doll house way of life one must be able to take in the tragic perspective: this is true for the theater, too, which is inadequate if it fails to take in the tragic vision.
		In Ghosts, too, 'tragedy' will be the condition the drama evolves to out of the condition of melodrama: a 'training' for the characters in the play and the audience that observes their evolution.
	www.ibsenvoyages.com /e-texts/doll/III.html (2819 words)

	IEP Student Writings (Site not responding. Last check: )
		We started during the summer time, at five in the afternoon, because we wanted to play when it was cool, and also because the sunlight remained until seven thirty or eight.
		There is a ghost festival in Chinese culture.It occurs during the middle July in the lunar calendar (a Chinese calendar) every year.People will make special food and meals for the festival, which is the common Chinese style for celebration.
		Traditionally, July is a ghost month in Chinese culture.It is a festival for the ghosts, not the people.People prepare food, fruit and meals for the ghosts as a request for protection from the troubles ghosts can make.
	gsmweb.udallas.edu /iep/writingmoduletexts.htm (3068 words)

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