|
|
This is only a preview of the paper
Click here to register and get the full text.
Existing members click here to login
|
|
|
Project proposal
Oneil is the first to show the modern individuals contradictory life experience, personal problems and anxiety. ... Is it possible for the modern person to find the essence or the meaning of life? Is it his general conviction that the modern individual is condemned for suffering and unhappiness?
In his early one-act plays the vehement temper and the revolting critique are dominant, while in the later plays he expresses social review in a straight and direct manner. ...
My purpose is to show how these O’Neill inventions in the American drama deplore the modern individuals crisis experience, contradictory life sensation and anxiety. I will also prove that through the features of his characters one could draw the authors own portait, understand his own crisis and personal tragedy.
I will mainly reflect on three of his plays; Mourning Becomes Electra,The Hairy Ape and Long Days Journey Into Night. In the Electra Oneill resuurects antigue charatcters in a modern drama to represent the opposition between the norms in old traditional ethic and modern life.Through The Hairy Ape I will search for the cage of modern American society. ... "Oneills Search for a Language of the Theater," Qarterly Journal of Speech, XVI, No. ... Chekhov and Oneill: The Uses of Short Story in Chekhovs and Oneills Plays. ... "Belonging Lost Alienation and Dramatic Form in Eugene Oneills The Hairy Ape, Acta Literaria, 1982. ...
Egri, Péter: "The Reinterpretation of the Chekhovian Mosaic Design in Oneills Long Days Journey Into Night," Acta Literaria,1980. ...
ONeill even used the Ancient Greek Chorus as a device to comment on the action of many of his plays. ... This crisis experience was directly or indirectly reflected in this time’s social conscience and art. ... One of his basic themes in his plays that are still being played in theaters all over the world is the “American dream”. ... The time when national consciousness arose, that in the previous centuries they had only been proud of O’neill recovers his oeuvre as a spiritual biography from the rocking experience of world war I and the following economic wave of poverty. His works characteristically mirror the modern individual’s contradictory life experience, individual problems, and anxiety. O’neill’s work of life is the formulation of one central theme: humans to be described with “hopless hope” because they are to find the meaning in life Yet it is his general conviction that modern individuals are condemned for suffering and unhappiness.
O’neill’s work is essential among the American plays that made it to stage between the two World Wars. ... Almási in the “Tragedies Narrated in Dreams” closes the Modern Erinnus section: ‘The internal hauntedness is again the appearance of social forces from the soul. ... Again O’neill articulates the modern individuals crisis in life this time with an extra emphasis on ‘belonging lost’(Egri). ... For the timing of the modern Electra O’neill picked great romantic phase in his country’s history, when great passions clash in the setting provided my a northern aristocratic family mansion. ... The Civil War plays a role of a preliminary dramatic setting conditioning a preliminary shock and a preceding senseless killing, which affect and rearrange the later order of values.
Approximate Word count = 2922
Approximate Pages = 11.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
|
|
|
|
|
|