Question

What is the moral of the story the canterville ghost

Answer 1

Oscar Wilde in his play 'The Canterville Ghost' has brought home to his readers two important question that every thinking person broods over, i.e.   What life is?  and 'What death signifies?' Apart from these profound answers, comes an important realization that 'love is stronger than both'. Love can break the barriers of time, place and age and bring salvation. The ghost of Simon de Canterville, though mocked and ridiculed in the beginning due to the attitude of the American family that moves in the Centerville Chase, is able to stir the impressionable mind of Virginia who goes out of the way who tries to go to the angel of death and ask for mercy. She becomes instrumental in bringing salvation and peace to the troubled spirit of the ghost who lived a tortured life torturing others in the mansion. While the absence of love can bring the devil out of a man, love can draw devil out of the ghost.