The Ghost Sonatas And The Wild Duck Analysis

The Ghost Sonata and The Wild Duck have a lot in common that most people do not think of. The first example, from The Ghost Sonata, is how Hummel exposed the truth to the Colonel about how he is a fraud. Colonel had been going around with a fake name and stand in the military, but Hummel comes in with proof that he is not exactly who he says he is. While in The Wild Duck, Gregers exposes the truth about Gina and Gregers’ father, and who Hedvig’s father really is. In both plays it shows some features of paternity lies. For example, in The Ghost Sonata the real father is kept secret because the Mummy and Hummel were no longer together and she was marrying someone else. The Mummy kept it a secret because she did not like the type of person …show more content…
The Ghost Sonata and Three Sisters have many things in common, marriage problems, high class problems, and not being able to think for themselves. The marriage problems involved in the plays are the same, but handled differently. In the Three Sisters, although they do not love their husbands anymore they have not left them, but they sleep around with other men. While in The Ghost Sonata the Mummy and the Colonel do not chose other lovers, but they just sit and stare at each other. They just deal with the cards they were dealt and stay loyal to one another. The high class problems that both plays mention is having to clean up after the maid or cook after doing something wrong and complain they have to do work. As far as women not being able to think for themselves in the plays they did not think the exact same thoughts. In The Ghost Sonata we witness this with Pretty Polly, she is merely at the house for decoration and entertainment, just like a trophy wife. While in Three Sisters, the 3 sisters resemble Pretty Polly by always repeating the same thing over again, therefore not being able to be an original …show more content…
I believe the daughter dies at the end to show the audience that life is not always fairytales. The story would have been different if we met the daughter first then they would have gotten married. It would have symbolized that if you do not appreciate what you are given in life then you will get downgraded, just like the student would have been towards her. Ever since we met the student he had hopes to move into the big house, but life does not go as we hope and therefore we were taught to not to get our hopes up, by her death. The story was set up as if the student and the daughter were are supposed to get married, but in life nothing tends to go as it is supposed to