This thesis aims to analyze Eugene O'Neill's two main autobiographical plays, Desire Under the Elms and Long Day's Journey into Night and to clarify the deep connection between his life and his dramas as well as the redemption through the overcoming of conflicts. Eugene O'Neill is the first playwrig...
This thesis aims to analyze Eugene O'Neill's two main autobiographical plays, Desire Under the Elms and Long Day's Journey into Night and to clarify the deep connection between his life and his dramas as well as the redemption through the overcoming of conflicts. Eugene O'Neill is the first playwright who uplifted the American drama to the level of the European one. It is impossible to study Eugene O'Neill's works without taking account into the social circumstances to which he himself belongs. In these two tragedies, he deals the human relationships in a family in terms of love and hate. Therefore, this study searches after his autobiographical experiences reflected in the plays. Throughout his life, he has suffered from the feeling of "homelessness", a lifelong "torment" or a "curse". As the result of this, he is desperately trying to express "something" real from his life throughout the plays. When one reads these autobiographical plays from start to finish, one can feel they are bound one another. In these two autobiographical plays, one can find the betrayal among father, mother, and brother in their quest for spiritual peace and final redemption. In Desire Under the Elms, the wife-husband, parent-child and brother-brother relationships gradually become destructive, resulting in a breaking point of the family through excessively materialistic and sexual desire. However, Eben and Abbie achieve their true love by overcoming their mutual misunderstanding. Long Day's Journey into Night is written around four characters living through a single day when the concealed past is unravelled and finally revealed. All the members of the family in this play suffer from hate, malice, anguish and sense of guilt one another. However, any way of escaping from their present tragic situation or any possibility of hope is not suggested. But their final understanding and love reflect an optimistic aspect of O'Neill's view on tragedy. The kernel of suffering consists in the pursuit and recognition of guilt in the past. Once the curse and resentment are purified into a true understanding and love, one can feel something exalted. O'Neill's plays, in a very real sense, are continual records of his searching for soul. In these tragedies, O'Neill shows his strong belief that the family relationship at present time, even though destroyed gradually by the advancement of mechanical civilization and selfishness, can be saved to the level of reconciliation and desirable condition through mutual love, forgiveness, and understanding.
This thesis aims to analyze Eugene O'Neill's two main autobiographical plays, Desire Under the Elms and Long Day's Journey into Night and to clarify the deep connection between his life and his dramas as well as the redemption through the overcoming of conflicts. Eugene O'Neill is the first playwright who uplifted the American drama to the level of the European one. It is impossible to study Eugene O'Neill's works without taking account into the social circumstances to which he himself belongs. In these two tragedies, he deals the human relationships in a family in terms of love and hate. Therefore, this study searches after his autobiographical experiences reflected in the plays. Throughout his life, he has suffered from the feeling of "homelessness", a lifelong "torment" or a "curse". As the result of this, he is desperately trying to express "something" real from his life throughout the plays. When one reads these autobiographical plays from start to finish, one can feel they are bound one another. In these two autobiographical plays, one can find the betrayal among father, mother, and brother in their quest for spiritual peace and final redemption. In Desire Under the Elms, the wife-husband, parent-child and brother-brother relationships gradually become destructive, resulting in a breaking point of the family through excessively materialistic and sexual desire. However, Eben and Abbie achieve their true love by overcoming their mutual misunderstanding. Long Day's Journey into Night is written around four characters living through a single day when the concealed past is unravelled and finally revealed. All the members of the family in this play suffer from hate, malice, anguish and sense of guilt one another. However, any way of escaping from their present tragic situation or any possibility of hope is not suggested. But their final understanding and love reflect an optimistic aspect of O'Neill's view on tragedy. The kernel of suffering consists in the pursuit and recognition of guilt in the past. Once the curse and resentment are purified into a true understanding and love, one can feel something exalted. O'Neill's plays, in a very real sense, are continual records of his searching for soul. In these tragedies, O'Neill shows his strong belief that the family relationship at present time, even though destroyed gradually by the advancement of mechanical civilization and selfishness, can be saved to the level of reconciliation and desirable condition through mutual love, forgiveness, and understanding.
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