Unfortunately, Captain Alvin would not stop cheating and philandering, until he died thus, soiling his reputation. Helen’s husband was a prominent man in society and her building the memorial for the society to honor him. Women in both plays safeguard the welfare of their husbands at the expense of their happiness, which compromises the children’s welfare. Oswald desires to be euthanized by taking morphine pills, which he asks from his mother Thus, Helen has to disclose that Regina was his half-sister thus refusing the incestuous relationship. Besides, he was having an affair with her house mistreats Regina Engstrand. Moreover, he had contracted a venereal disease, syphilis, and was dying from it. This did not work as evidenced by Oswald telling the pastor of cohabitation in Paris where the pastor counsels on Helen to become a good parent. She had distanced him from his father not to be morally influenced. She also becomes aware of her son’s condition, who has returned from Paris. Consequently, she adhered to the counsel believing that her husband would undergo reformation due to her love and affection. When she abandoned her marriage due to various difficulties, the pastor had directed her to be with her husband irrespective of the philandering from her husband.

Helen constructs the orphanage to exhaust the husband’s finances for her son, Oswald Alving not to have any inheritance from the father. Engstrand was a neighboring carpenter who was one of the orphanage builders. Regina Engstrand is visited by Jacob Engstrand, the supposed father who lies that the evidence lies in the church records. The Ghost addresses the encounter of a wealthy widow, Helen Alving who wants to open an orphanage for remembrance of her deceased husband, captain Alving during the 10 th anniversary of his demise. The marriages in both plays are depicted as full of deceptions.

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