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This 5 page paper discusses the themes of heredity, disease and hypocrisy in Ibsen's work, Ghosts, and O'Neill's work, Long Day's Journey into night. Examples, quotes cited from texts. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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play, Long Days Journey into Night, the dynamic of the family is pitted against the ghosts of outmoded traditions which cause internal disease, hypocrisy and the legacy of deception. Ghosts
synopsis Home from his art studies in Paris, France, Oswald Alving comes home with a terrible secret. As his life of exclusion and seclusion from dark
family secrets is revealed, it comes clear that those very aspects of character that Mrs. Alving had sought to protect Oswald from, have occurred, nonetheless. Many years prior the senior
Alving passed away from a seldom discussed disease: syphilis. Fearing that her son would become morally corrupted in the presence of his fathers adultery and subsequent sexually contracted disease, Mrs.
Alving has sent her son to study abroad. However, when he returns he confesses that he, too, has contracted syphilis. However, he does not want to end up like his
father, with dementia, and begs his mother to give him a fatal dose of medication before he is too far gone. Complicating the plot is the knowledge that Oswalds
love interest, unbeknownst to him, is a half sister, sired by his father, the late Captain Alving. If poor Mrs. Alving isnt faced with enough trouble, there are the constant
societal reminders from kith and kin on what she should have done. In the end the audience is left with the same awful sense of destiny and entrapment that Mrs.
Alving feels. Long Days Night synopsis The play takes place in a summer residence of the Tyrone family where the mother, Mary, has returned after
receiving treatment for morphine addiction. It becomes evident, early on, that the family is not well. Edmund, the youngest child, has tuberculosis. The rest of the family, finding themselves in
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