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Helene has just revealed the family secrets she has been hiding for years. She has told Oswald that his father was a philandering drunk and that Regina, the family maid and Oswald’s potential love-interest, is actually his half-sister. However, Oswald has secrets of his own. He has already told his mother that he suffering from an inherited venereal disease that is degenerative but he now reveals that the sickness is in his brain and will only get worse. Helene is faced with the ultimate awful
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Start: Helene: Are you very shocked?
Oswald: About my father?
Helene: Yes.
Oswald: It’s all the same to me.
End: Oswald: The sun…
Helene: No.
Oswald: The sun...the sun...the sun...the sun...the sun...the sun...the sun…
Henrik Ibsen; adapt. Richard Eyre. Ghosts. Nick Hern Books, 2013 pp.70-76.
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