How we cite our quotes: Citations follow this format: (Act.Line). Every time a character talks counts as one line, even if what they say turns into a long monologue. We used William Archer's translation.
Quote #7
OSWALD. Everything will burn. All that recalls father's memory is doomed. Here am I, too, burning down. [REGINA starts and looks at him.] (3.84)
Oswald laments the death of his father's memory, even as Mrs. Alving plots for it.
Quote #8
MRS. ALVING. You ought to have known your father when he was a young lieutenant. He was brimming over with the joy of life! (3.110)
Though she spent most of the play attempting to bury her husband's memory for good, the return of her son succeeds her resurrecting and rehabilitating him. Mrs. Alving learns to understand and love the person who had been the object of her hate for so many years.