AP English Literature - Ghosts

"...I am half inclined to think we are all ghosts...It is not only what we have inherited , from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind. They are not acutally alive in us; but there they are dormant, all the same, and we can never be rid of them." - Mrs. Alving in Ibsen's play Ghosts