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Name:Dodiya Meghana j.
Roll No: 11
Paper no: 10
Year -2016-17
Paper name: American literature
Topic: Theme of Mourning becomes Electra
Email ID: mdodiya26@gmail.com
Submitted to: Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
# Introduction:
O'Neill was an Irish American playwright and nobel Lauratee in literature.He was born 16,octomber,1888.mourning becoes electra play written by Eugene o'neill.Mourning becomes electra is extraordianarily lengthy for a drama.Chracters from the
ancient Greek play.Fruedian perspective.published in 1931.
#His Masterpiece:
- A long day journey into night(1917)
- Beyond the Horizon(1920)
- Anna Christie(1922)
#Mourning Becomes Electra:
"Mourning Becomes Electra", a trilogy by O' Neil, is the recreation of Greek tragic play "Oresteia". The play, giving rise to the grave psychological debates over human nature and sexual urges, was then written by the legend playwright
Aeschylus.
In the lines of Sigmund Freud's "Oedipus Complex", the play features murder, incest and revenge. "Mourning Becomes Electra" can be called a modern tragedy of "Oresteia" where Neil has not only changed the names of characters as well as the story but also altered the prime Greek belief that human actions and destiny are modelled and moulded by fate.
Though they are influenced by fate to a certain extent, yet O' Neil's characters are to be held responsible personally for their psychological problems and immoral sexual impudence. "Home Coming" is the first part of the trilogy of "Mourning Becomes Electra".
#The Evil Of Love self:
#Psychological Element:
• Sigmund Frued:
#Theme of Mourning Becomes Electra:
-Definition: The Electra cpmplex is a psychoanalyticterm used to describe a girls sense of competition with her mother for the affection of her father.It is comparable to the Oedipus complex.
-Lavini a represent as Electra
-orin represent the oedipus complex
#Theme of Oedipus complex:
#Background :
The Mannon family becomes subject to Oedipus complex when the selfish mother, Christine, fails to fulfil her motherly duties and the children are subject to certain psychological fixations leading to Oedipus complex or even Electra complex.
Lavinia is the prime victim of this fixation whereas Orin is also no exception to this complex. Both of them suffer and ruin their lives under the influence of this complex.
#Theme Of Hatred:
The whole family is ruined just because of the hatred of Christine towards her husband and then on its turn to her own children. Under such a deep emotion of hatred, she drives her daughter away from her. Lavinia "was born of" her mother's "disgust" of her father, the man she hated. Lavinia explains the horrors of her childhood:
"ever since I was little--when I used to come to you--with love--but you would always push me away! I've felt it ever since I can remember--your disgust!"
Christine also admits that she is the wife of a man she badly hates. Christine blames Lavinia of play treachery on her own mother: "I've watched you ever since you were little, trying to do exactly what you're doing now! You've tried to become the wife of your father and the mother of Orin! You've always schemed to steal my place!".
#Theme Of Incest:
"Mourning Becomes Electra" is a tale of incest and sexual encounters between different characters of the play with no regard to age or gender.
Lavinia is having a sexual relationship with Adam while she is in a near incestuous relationship with her son Orin. On the other hand, Lavinia is seeking an incestuous relationship with her father and cannot allow her brother, Orin, to escape from under her influence over to Hazel.
#Theme of Family:
Mourning Becomes Electra is a family Drama and this is one seriously twisted family,locked in repetitive and compulsive patterns that bring down everyone named Mannon and some people who aren't.
O'Neill presents the family as doomed to repeat the relationship that started the cycle of deception and revenge .He seems to suggest that certain character traits run in families ,and that some patterns are just inescapable.
All families have conflicts, of course; just think back on your own past 24 hours. But chances are they won't have involved murder, suicide, or incest. These Mannons have it all. Even the Civil War, which provides the historical backdrop for the story, was a sad family affair. Brothers fought and killed brothers, families were divided. The war mirrors the horrible events taking place on a smaller scale in our dysfunctional family.
#Theme of Lies and deceit:
There are lies about everything: parentage, love affairs, murder plots, who said what, who did what. Most of the lies are quite intentional, and they're aimed at protecting someone or some secret. Christine's definitely the best liar of the bunch.
Her bold-faced lies to her husband and children make it hard for her to keep her story straight. Orin has the most trouble lying; he's too disorganized and disturbed to do much else than spill his guts. O'Neill makes it clear that the most dangerous kind of lying is lying to yourself. It leaves you wide open to a world of misery.
#Theme of Sex and lust:
The "original sin" in this trilogy is one of lust: David Mannon's illicit affair with the family's French Canadian nurse. (You know those Canadians—no self control, right?) This affair haunts the Mannon family and sets in motion all the revenge and murder that follows.
Conflict about sexual desire is what destroys Ezra and Christine's marriage and leads them to seek comfort in really inappropriate attachments to their children.
There's constant friction in the trilogy between sexual repression and sexual longing. Reading these plays as someone not born in the 1800s, you might wonder what the big deal is. Is adultery a capital offense?
Is it really shocking to be a sensual person? O'Neill's giving us a peek into a society where sex is best kept under wraps, where being a sexy person gets you labeled as strange or foreign. The result of all this repression is an explosion of twisted sexuality, in the form of incestuous feelings which ultimately destroy the Mannon family. In fact, most of the sex (or sexual desire) in these plays are between parents and children, or people who represent parents and children.
#Theme of death:
Death hangs over Mourning Becomes Electra like a black curtain. It's everywhere—the title's about mourning, the characters are emotionally dead, the house is a tomb, the shadow of the war haunts the male characters, there are two murders, and suicide seems to be the coping strategy du jour.
Death seems to be chasing everybody in the Mannon family, and it catches up to all of them one way or another. O'Neill seems to suggest throughout the play that a living death, tortured by guilt or with no human feeling or connection, can be worse than the real thing.
#Theme of fate:
mourning becomes Electra largely regarded as american Tragedy.charactersin tragedy are fated or destined.In Greek and shakespearen tragedies fate play very vital role.The tension between puritalism and freedom pride,love,death,and life.The family fate of the new England mannons is ancestral,not limited to one gneration.There is no super natural agency,employedby the dramatist to create page.
#Theme of supernatural:
O'Neill uses the supernatural like some kind of ghost-story ninja, using it to talk about guilt and remorse, madness and fear, salvation and damnation, and a whole lot of other really heavy ideas.
He said his goal was to achieve a "power and drive and the strange quality of unreal reality I wanted […] attained without benefit of the supernatural. The Mannons are haunted as much by the memories of their own actions as by the (imagined) spirits of their dead.
The title of the last play—The Haunted—is spot-on. Even if O'Neill intends the haunting to be a metaphor, the feeling of unreality is definitely there.
#Conclusion:
In this play so many differnt theme are used and with concept of Oedipus complex .In Mourning becomes Electra..where ..Mr.O'neill's interpretation of freud's theory of psychoanalysis is a totlly disater.Ezra and orin are away..as a turning point in the developement of the oedipus complex and electra complex.
#Cited:
http://www.risenotes.com/electra/Mourning-Becomes-Electra-themes-and-topics.php
http://www.shmoop.com/mourning-becomes-electra/themes.html
http://www.slideshare.net/thakaraneri/paper-10-the-mourning-becomes-electra
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Name:Dodiya Meghana j.
Roll No: 11
Paper no: 10
Year -2016-17
Paper name: American literature
Topic: Theme of Mourning becomes Electra
Email ID: mdodiya26@gmail.com
Submitted to: Department of English
Maharaja Krishnakumarsinhji Bhavnagar University
# Introduction:
O'Neill was an Irish American playwright and nobel Lauratee in literature.He was born 16,octomber,1888.mourning becoes electra play written by Eugene o'neill.Mourning becomes electra is extraordianarily lengthy for a drama.Chracters from the
ancient Greek play.Fruedian perspective.published in 1931.
#His Masterpiece:
- A long day journey into night(1917)
- Beyond the Horizon(1920)
- Anna Christie(1922)
#Mourning Becomes Electra:
"Mourning Becomes Electra", a trilogy by O' Neil, is the recreation of Greek tragic play "Oresteia". The play, giving rise to the grave psychological debates over human nature and sexual urges, was then written by the legend playwright
Aeschylus.
In the lines of Sigmund Freud's "Oedipus Complex", the play features murder, incest and revenge. "Mourning Becomes Electra" can be called a modern tragedy of "Oresteia" where Neil has not only changed the names of characters as well as the story but also altered the prime Greek belief that human actions and destiny are modelled and moulded by fate.
Though they are influenced by fate to a certain extent, yet O' Neil's characters are to be held responsible personally for their psychological problems and immoral sexual impudence. "Home Coming" is the first part of the trilogy of "Mourning Becomes Electra".
#The Evil Of Love self:
#Psychological Element:
• Sigmund Frued:
#Theme of Mourning Becomes Electra:
-Definition: The Electra cpmplex is a psychoanalyticterm used to describe a girls sense of competition with her mother for the affection of her father.It is comparable to the Oedipus complex.
-Lavini a represent as Electra
-orin represent the oedipus complex
#Theme of Oedipus complex:
#Background :
- Greek mythological character oedipus
- Unwittingly kills his father...
- Laiusmarries his mother...Jocasta
- A play based on the myth.Oedipus rex was written by sophocles.
The Mannon family becomes subject to Oedipus complex when the selfish mother, Christine, fails to fulfil her motherly duties and the children are subject to certain psychological fixations leading to Oedipus complex or even Electra complex.
Lavinia is the prime victim of this fixation whereas Orin is also no exception to this complex. Both of them suffer and ruin their lives under the influence of this complex.
#Theme Of Hatred:
The whole family is ruined just because of the hatred of Christine towards her husband and then on its turn to her own children. Under such a deep emotion of hatred, she drives her daughter away from her. Lavinia "was born of" her mother's "disgust" of her father, the man she hated. Lavinia explains the horrors of her childhood:
"ever since I was little--when I used to come to you--with love--but you would always push me away! I've felt it ever since I can remember--your disgust!"
Christine also admits that she is the wife of a man she badly hates. Christine blames Lavinia of play treachery on her own mother: "I've watched you ever since you were little, trying to do exactly what you're doing now! You've tried to become the wife of your father and the mother of Orin! You've always schemed to steal my place!".
#Theme Of Incest:
"Mourning Becomes Electra" is a tale of incest and sexual encounters between different characters of the play with no regard to age or gender.
Lavinia is having a sexual relationship with Adam while she is in a near incestuous relationship with her son Orin. On the other hand, Lavinia is seeking an incestuous relationship with her father and cannot allow her brother, Orin, to escape from under her influence over to Hazel.
#Theme of Family:
Mourning Becomes Electra is a family Drama and this is one seriously twisted family,locked in repetitive and compulsive patterns that bring down everyone named Mannon and some people who aren't.
O'Neill presents the family as doomed to repeat the relationship that started the cycle of deception and revenge .He seems to suggest that certain character traits run in families ,and that some patterns are just inescapable.
All families have conflicts, of course; just think back on your own past 24 hours. But chances are they won't have involved murder, suicide, or incest. These Mannons have it all. Even the Civil War, which provides the historical backdrop for the story, was a sad family affair. Brothers fought and killed brothers, families were divided. The war mirrors the horrible events taking place on a smaller scale in our dysfunctional family.
#Theme of Lies and deceit:
There are lies about everything: parentage, love affairs, murder plots, who said what, who did what. Most of the lies are quite intentional, and they're aimed at protecting someone or some secret. Christine's definitely the best liar of the bunch.
Her bold-faced lies to her husband and children make it hard for her to keep her story straight. Orin has the most trouble lying; he's too disorganized and disturbed to do much else than spill his guts. O'Neill makes it clear that the most dangerous kind of lying is lying to yourself. It leaves you wide open to a world of misery.
#Theme of Sex and lust:
The "original sin" in this trilogy is one of lust: David Mannon's illicit affair with the family's French Canadian nurse. (You know those Canadians—no self control, right?) This affair haunts the Mannon family and sets in motion all the revenge and murder that follows.
Conflict about sexual desire is what destroys Ezra and Christine's marriage and leads them to seek comfort in really inappropriate attachments to their children.
There's constant friction in the trilogy between sexual repression and sexual longing. Reading these plays as someone not born in the 1800s, you might wonder what the big deal is. Is adultery a capital offense?
Is it really shocking to be a sensual person? O'Neill's giving us a peek into a society where sex is best kept under wraps, where being a sexy person gets you labeled as strange or foreign. The result of all this repression is an explosion of twisted sexuality, in the form of incestuous feelings which ultimately destroy the Mannon family. In fact, most of the sex (or sexual desire) in these plays are between parents and children, or people who represent parents and children.
#Theme of death:
Death hangs over Mourning Becomes Electra like a black curtain. It's everywhere—the title's about mourning, the characters are emotionally dead, the house is a tomb, the shadow of the war haunts the male characters, there are two murders, and suicide seems to be the coping strategy du jour.
Death seems to be chasing everybody in the Mannon family, and it catches up to all of them one way or another. O'Neill seems to suggest throughout the play that a living death, tortured by guilt or with no human feeling or connection, can be worse than the real thing.
#Theme of fate:
mourning becomes Electra largely regarded as american Tragedy.charactersin tragedy are fated or destined.In Greek and shakespearen tragedies fate play very vital role.The tension between puritalism and freedom pride,love,death,and life.The family fate of the new England mannons is ancestral,not limited to one gneration.There is no super natural agency,employedby the dramatist to create page.
#Theme of supernatural:
O'Neill uses the supernatural like some kind of ghost-story ninja, using it to talk about guilt and remorse, madness and fear, salvation and damnation, and a whole lot of other really heavy ideas.
He said his goal was to achieve a "power and drive and the strange quality of unreal reality I wanted […] attained without benefit of the supernatural. The Mannons are haunted as much by the memories of their own actions as by the (imagined) spirits of their dead.
The title of the last play—The Haunted—is spot-on. Even if O'Neill intends the haunting to be a metaphor, the feeling of unreality is definitely there.
#Conclusion:
In this play so many differnt theme are used and with concept of Oedipus complex .In Mourning becomes Electra..where ..Mr.O'neill's interpretation of freud's theory of psychoanalysis is a totlly disater.Ezra and orin are away..as a turning point in the developement of the oedipus complex and electra complex.
#Cited:
http://www.risenotes.com/electra/Mourning-Becomes-Electra-themes-and-topics.php
http://www.shmoop.com/mourning-becomes-electra/themes.html
http://www.slideshare.net/thakaraneri/paper-10-the-mourning-becomes-electra
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