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Mrs. Alving says this to Pastor Manders after hearing Oswald make a sexual advance on Regine in the adjacent room. This reminds her of hearing Captain Alving do the same thing to Johanna many years ago, and the experience makes Mrs. Alving feel as if the ghosts of her past are revisiting her. As she sets forth this metaphor about ghosts, she suggests that people are often haunted by their personal histories. However, she also expands the idea so that it encompasses the ways in which societal customs refuse to die, as old belief systems bring themselves to bear on…