History Theatre / Ghosts

* MsFanservice: Regine. Almost all the male cast members comment on her looks. Engstrand goes further, by suggesting she should work as "bait" in his planned "[[IsThatWhatYouCallIt home for sailors]]".

* MsFanservice: Regine. Almost all the male cast members comment on her looks. Engstrand goes further, by suggesting she should work as "bait" in his planned "[[IsThisWhatYouCallIt home for sailors]]".

* MsFanservice: Regine. Almost all the male cast members comment on her looks. Engstrand goes further, by suggesting she should work as "bait" in his planned "[[IsThisWhatYouCallItNow home for sailors]]".

* MsFanservice: Regine. Almost all the male cast members comment on her looks. Engstrand goes further, by suggesting she should work as "bait" in his planned "[[IsThatWhatYouCallItNow home for sailors]]".

* MsFanservice: Regine. Almost all the male cast members comment on her looks. Engstrand goes further, by suggesting she should work as "bait" in his planned "home for sailors".

* DirtyOldMan: Engstrand. Also a ConsummateLiar.

* MaleGaze: Manders when commenting on how Regine has "filled out" the last two years.

* GenerationXerox: Captain Alving was caught red handed with a housemaid in the parlor. Years later, Osvald is discovered in the parlor with the daughter of said housemaid (Regine Engstrand, who, as it turns out, was conceived in the former event. Which means... {{squick}}). Subverted if it turns out Manders is his father (commented on in a throwaway line).

* TitleDrop: When Helen has retold the story of her husband and the housemaid in the parlor, she and Manders hears Oswand and Regine reenact the scene, and Helen goes immediately pale, and whispers: ''Ghosts''.

* GenerationXerox: Captain Alving was caught red handed with a housemaid in the parlor. Years later, Osvald is discovered in the parlor with the daughter of said housemaid (Regine Engstrand, who, as it turns out, was conceived in the former event. Which means... {{squick}}).

* UncannyFamilyResemblance: Oswald when he is first introduced. Manders comments that he almost looked like his father, when he came downstairs smoking the old man`s pipe. Subverted when Helen protests: "He looks like me". When she states that Oswalds mouth has something "priestly" about it, it should have worried Manders a little.

* SinisterMinister: Reverend Manders is not above striking a deal with Engstrand the carpenter, allowing him to build a brothel, or trying to gloss over the more questionable actions of Captain Alving. He was also the one who sealed the marriage between the housemaid and Engstrand, making Regina believe Engstrand was her father.

* SinisterMinister: Reverend Manders is not above striking a deal with Engstrand the carpenter, allowing him to build a brothel, or trying to gloss over the more questionable actions of Captain Alving.

* HeroicBSOD: The very end of the play. Mrs Alving is considerin Oswald`s plea to kill him when his mind goes. And can`t make up her mind. And there it all ends. With a BigNo.

On an interesting side note, the play was originally written in Danish. The word "Gengangere" is Danish, not Norwegian. That is because Danish was the main written language in Norway at the time. For more on that discussion see UsefulNotes/NorwegianLanguageStruggle. Ibsen preferred writing in the language he was taught.

On an interesting side note, the play was originally written in Danish. The word "Gengangere" is Danish, not Norwegian. The equivalent Norwegian term is "Gjengangere", which literally translates to "again walkers". Apparently, Norwegians use the term to also refer to people who keep appearing in the same places.