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* LargeHam: Manders. He has the potential to be played that way.
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* WhatTheHellHero: Regina when she discovers the identity of her true father, delivers this to Helen Alving, before she leaves for good. She resents that she has lived the life of a housemaid all the time, when "I could have been brought up a proper lady!"
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* DaydreamBeliever: Regina Engstrand has lived on the illusion that Oswald will take her to Paris for several years after he told her of the place. When Oswald returns at the beginning of the play, he is stunned by the fact that she took him seriously, and has begun to teach herself French. ThisIsReality ensues rather harsh upon her, but she leaves anyway, still clinging to a hope of something better, but she has taken on some fatalism when she eventually leaves.
** Regina is the closest character to earn her own IWantSong - had Disney dared to make a movie out of the play.
** Regina is the closest character to earn her own IWantSong - had Disney dared to make a movie out of the play.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Oswald believes Regina to be one. He states that she has "love of life", and would be the one to "help him out" - that is, kill him when his sanity slips. Sadly, she leaves in a hurry when she is presented to her actual backstory.
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** She is also educated to a level that seemingly surpasses Manders, and GenreSavvy to boot. She even lampshades it when Manders is constantly manipulated by Engstrand. [[FridgeLogic It seems Ibsen is fond of setting his OnlySaneMan characters in a SurroundedByIdiots plot time and again...]]
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** She is also educated to a level that seemingly surpasses Manders, and GenreSavvy to boot. She even lampshades it when Manders is constantly manipulated by Engstrand. [[FridgeLogic It seems Ibsen is fond of setting his OnlySaneMan characters in a SurroundedByIdiots plot [[FridgeLogic time and again...]]
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** She is also educated to a level that seemingly surpasses Manders, and GenreSavvy to boot. She even lampshades it when Manders is constantly manipulated by Engstrand.
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** She is also educated to a level that seemingly surpasses Manders, and GenreSavvy to boot. She even lampshades it when Manders is constantly manipulated by Engstrand. [[FridgeLogic It seems Ibsen is fond of setting his OnlySaneMan characters in a SurroundedByIdiots plot time and again...]]
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* OnlySaneMan: Mrs Alving. Possibly her son Oswald. At the end of the play, she is literally the only sane person on stage.
** She is also educated to a level that seemingly surpasses Manders, and GenreSavvy to boot. She even lampshades it when Manders is constantly manipulated by Engstrand.
** She is also educated to a level that seemingly surpasses Manders, and GenreSavvy to boot. She even lampshades it when Manders is constantly manipulated by Engstrand.
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* TitleDrop: When Helen has retold the story of her husband and the housemaid in the parlor, she and Manders hear Oswald and Regine reenact the scene. Helen goes immediately pale, and whispers: ''Ghosts''.
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* TitleDrop: When Helen has retold the story of her husband and the housemaid in the parlor, she and Manders hear Oswald and Regine reenact the scene. Helen goes immediately pale, and whispers: ''Ghosts''. Later, in the second act, she follows suit, by stating: "We are probably ghosts, all of us".
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* PresicionFStrike: Engstrand, but also Regina. Especially when Engstrand gets to know that Manders is in on the secret concerning Regina. Goes as another OhCrap moment.
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* PresicionFStrike: PrecisionFStrike: Engstrand, but also Regina. Especially when Engstrand gets to know that Manders is in on the secret concerning Regina. Goes as another OhCrap moment.
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** In hindsight: Captain Alving acted irresponsibly to a degree that the trope also is invoked for him.
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* OhCrap: Regine gets some serious willies when she discovers the identity of her true father.
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* OhCrap: Regine gets some serious willies when she discovers the identity of her true father.
* ParentingTheHusband: Helen Alving took full control of the Alving estate after the affair with Regina`s mother, making Alving a "second child" in the household. "I took complete power, and he dared not oppose it!"
* PresicionFStrike: Engstrand, but also Regina. Especially when Engstrand gets to know that Manders is in on the secret concerning Regina. Goes as another OhCrap moment.
* ParentingTheHusband: Helen Alving took full control of the Alving estate after the affair with Regina`s mother, making Alving a "second child" in the household. "I took complete power, and he dared not oppose it!"
* PresicionFStrike: Engstrand, but also Regina. Especially when Engstrand gets to know that Manders is in on the secret concerning Regina. Goes as another OhCrap moment.
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* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Regine solves it this way. Probably just as well.
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* ScrewThisImOutOfHere: Regine solves it this way. Probably just as well.
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* TeamMom: Helen Alving is the most prominent TeamMom in the Ibsen canon, besides Theatre/LadyIngerAtAustraat.
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* GayParee: Oswald has spent some years with the artists in Paris. Regina dreams of Paris, almost literally invoking the trope, because her life actually sucks.
* NothingExcitingEverHappensHere: When Helen Alving tells Oswald and Regina of Captain Alving´s life, she invokes this, making a point of Alving`s boredom in a place that was too small for him.
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* TheReveal: Helen Alving gets around to explain the circumstances concerning the relation between Oswald and Regine. Her reaction is as you could expect.
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* TheReveal: Helen Alving gets around to explain the circumstances concerning the relation between Oswald and Regine. Her reaction is as you could expect.expect.
* RichBoredom: Captain Alwing fell to pieces because he was confined to a small Norwegian town, without anyone to share anything with. It resulted in a waste of talents and resources on complete idleness. Which made life miserable for Helen Alving and Oswald.
* RichBoredom: Captain Alwing fell to pieces because he was confined to a small Norwegian town, without anyone to share anything with. It resulted in a waste of talents and resources on complete idleness. Which made life miserable for Helen Alving and Oswald.
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* ManChild: Helen Alving invokes the trope after seeing Manders being duped by Engstrand. She indicates that he has to be a big child - no man with his wits in place could be ''that'' naïve.
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** Consider that ''every character'' who is not Regina compliments on her, and Regina Engstrand may be the most prominent fanservice character Ibsen ever created.
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* ForYourOwnGood: Manders reasoned that way to keep Helen Alving from eloping while still freshly married.
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* CurvesInAllTheRightPlaces: Regina, according to Engstrand, Manders, Oswald, and (believe it or not)[[EvenGirlsWantHer Helen Alving]].
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* CurvesInAllTheRightPlaces: Regina, according to Engstrand, Manders, Oswald, and (believe it or not)[[EvenGirlsWantHer not) [[EvenGirlsWantHer Helen Alving]].
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* CurvesInAllTheRightPlaces: Regina, according to Engstrand, Manders, Oswald, and (believe it or not)[[EvenGirlsWantHer Helen Alving]].
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Regina tells Engstrand that Oswald is upstairs, "resting". His fatigue comes back stronger as the play progresses.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Regina tells Engstrand that Oswald is upstairs, "resting". His fatigue comes back stronger as the play progresses. Engstrand also tells of the "upper class" people, like, for instance, ''captains'', who are to be given "hospitality" in his planned institution. And the late Alving was - a captain.
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** To underscore this: Helen Alving eloped after a year of marriage, seeking shelter at the home of Manders. [[NoodleIncident It is never stated what happened between them]]. But Manders kept a safe distance for many years after.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Helen Alving and Manders. UpToEleven when Manders states that he never dares to sleep over in the Alving home.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between Helen Alving and Manders. UpToEleven when Manders states that he never dares to sleep over in the Alving home.
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* AffablyEvil: Captain Alving may have been a jerkass, but at the same time, he was so likeable that nobody ever noticed - or cared.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Regina tells Engstrand that Oswald is upstairs, "resting". His fatigue comes back stronger as the play progresses.
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* 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. To top it, he has no qualms in trying to persuade Regine to follow Engstrand when Engstrand wants her to -ahem- "work" in his establisment.
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* 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. To top it, he has no qualms in trying to persuade Regine to follow Engstrand when Engstrand wants her to -ahem- "work" in his establisment. Subverted when we consider him an UnwittingPawn in the hands of Engstrand.
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* SarcasmMode: The most sarcastic line is Engstrand`s, when he, at the end of the play, states that he will raise a memorial "worthy of captain Alving". Cue the brothel.
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* {{Hipster}}: Oswald has spent some time with the then-hipsters of Paris (the Bohemians). Manders calls him out on their moral standards, when he hears that the families live outside of wedlock, with children. Oswald has a ShutUpHannibal moment where he reminds Manders that the real bastards are the bourgois upper class men, coming to visit the "alternatives". Manders does not have a straight answer to that one.
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* GratuitosFrench: Regina has learned some French phrases in case she is going to Paris with Oswald.
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* BookDumb: Old Engstrand doesn`t understand the French words Regine uses and asks if she is speaking English. Regina responds with a sarcastic "of course" (Goes in the original Norwegian version. An English translation would have him confuse French and German).
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* GratuitosFrench: Regina has learned some French phrases in case she is going to Paris with Oswald.
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* SocialClimber: Regine when she decides to follow Oswald to Paris, and later when she states that she still will be able to "drink champagne with the upper class".
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* OhCrap: Regine gets some serious willies when she discovers the identity of her true father.
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* TheReveal: Helen Alving gets around to explain the circumstances concerning the relation between Oswald and Regine. Her reaction is as you could expect.
* TheReveal: Helen Alving gets around to explain the circumstances concerning the relation between Oswald and Regine. Her reaction is as you could expect.
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* DownerEnding: The only decent male character is losing his last wits, while the main character despairs.
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* BatmanGambit: Engstrand is behind this one, with Manders acting as his UnwittingPawn. Through the course of the play, he gets Manders to be where he wants him to be, and tricks him into setting all the money from the Alving estate into his "home for sailors" - actually a brothel. He also makes Manders believe he set fire to the Alving Memorial. In one particular production, we see Helen Alving give Engstrand a DeathGlare when she understands what is going on.
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* TheManBehindTheMan: Engstrand is behind Manders.
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* BerserkButton: Mrs Alving when Manders mentions "law and order" (societal rules). It cost her dearly.
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* TheFettered: Helen Alving. She is bound by duty, tradition, laws, and gets into a fit when Manders mentions "law and order". Yet another Ibsenian woman who seems to have had enough.
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** When he decides not to take any insurance on the memorial home, and then almost gets framed for arson later, he is almost TooDumbToLive.
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* IdiotBall: Manders is the promoment ball holder in this play. He is elegantly tricked by Engstrand, and has to get all the InfoDump straight in his face from mrs Alving. As a priest, he should have known his flock a little better than that. When he confronts Engstrand, he is tricked again.
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* IdiotBall: Manders is the promoment prominent ball holder in this play. He is elegantly tricked by Engstrand, and has to get all the InfoDump straight in his face from mrs Alving. As a priest, he should have known his flock a little better than that. When he confronts Engstrand, he is tricked again.
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* IdiotBall: Manders is the promoment ball holder in this play. He is elegantly tricked by Engstrand, and has to get all the InfoDump straight in his face from mrs Alving. As a priest, he should have known his flock a little better than that. When he confronts Engstrand, he is tricked again.
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Theatre/TheWildDuck''. Both plays contain a girl conceived outside of wedlock and fostered by another. While the former play discuss "ideals" as ''lies'' (Relling), this play sets the "ideals" of Manders as opposite to ''the truth'' (lampshaded by mrs Alving).
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* SpiritualSuccessor: To ''Theatre/TheWildDuck''.SpiritualSuccessor:''Theatre/TheWildDuck'', written in 1883. Both plays contain a girl conceived outside of wedlock and fostered by another. While the former play ''The Wild Duck'' discuss "ideals" as ''lies'' (Relling), this play sets the "ideals" of Manders as opposite to ''the truth'' (lampshaded by mrs Alving).
