Not All Ghost Say Bo Character Analysis

Not All Ghosts Say Boo
After reading the Ghosts and seeing the live production, my ideas and thoughts about some of the parts of the play changed dramatically. As a reader, I was only seeing it through my eyes, but after watching the performance, I can the play in a different light. My ideas on Mrs. Alving, Engstrand and Regina changed, the way that I saw the antagonist and protagonist changed, and my thoughts on who burned the orphanage changed.
The production of Ghosts differed in multiple ways then how I perceived it when I read it. One example of this is the how manipulative Mrs.Alving is. While I was reading, I pictured her reasoning as a more manipulative stance of wanting Oswald all to herself, but in the production of it, she seemed more caring and just really wanting her baby boy that she so longed to have all of these years. Another example of how I pictured something in the book compared to the live production of it was how sincere Engstrand was. In the …show more content…
Also, at some point they try to stop someone else’s journey. I believe that Mrs. Alving is the protagonist. Throughout the play, we follow her story as everything unfolds in front of her and throughout the play, her journey is met with struggle and hardship. The person of whom I believe is the antagonist is Captain Alving. Even though Mrs. Alving no longer has him anymore, he still looms over her as a ghost on her conscience restricting her from letting him go. This is evident when Oswald returns home and it gets worse because as Pastor Manders says “I thought for a moment it was father in the flesh.” stating the fact that Oswald looks like his father. In the end though, Mrs. Alving is released from Captain Alving when the orphanage burns down and she tells Regina and Oswald all of the secrets she has been