I am only too aware of the rumours that circulated about him;
Conservative view, double standard. The pastor is more accepting of the husband's sins because he got married and had an unhealthy family as opposed to a healthy unmarried family. He cares more about the way people look to others. If they're married but have an unhealthy relationship, it's fine because they're married in a christian sense.
How you abandoned your house and home –how you fled from your husband
I guess this is what happened
at that moment in your life whenyou had gone so terribly astray
What happened?
[Clutches his head.] Oh – that this beautiful, gloriouslife of freedom47 out there – that it should be sullied like this.
We sympathize with osvald, and pastor manders seems like a babbling fool. As a modern audience, we sympathize with him. However, at the time perhaps he seems like a disrespectful, rebellious child.
What should they do?
After being away so long, he has returned to his small town with more radical modern Idea. His mother sides with him. The clash between more liber attitudes towards the family and women's roles with the more traditional ideas.
You went out into the world early,my dear Osvald
Why? Does it have something to do with his father?
Oh, how can you possibly say that? Osvald takes after me.
Bad relationship with her husband? Does she not want him to take after his father? what happened to her husband?
Maybe she just wants her child to take after her, and there's some jealousy of her husband there?
Osvald has something rather more priestly about hismouth, to my mind.
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Father's pipe