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Name -: Parmar Milankumar
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Enrollment no. -: Pg14101026
Course no. -: 10- American Litrature
Email -: [email protected]
Submitted to -: Department of
English
Smt.S.B.Gardi
M.K.B.University
Role of Fate in Mourning Becomes Electra
Eugene O’NeillBirth:-1988Death:-1953Mourning becomes Electra Published in the year 1947.His other famous works areHairy ape, Desire under elms, Strange interlude.
Introduction
Character chart of Manon Family
Role of Fate
Pride as a source of the death
Love and Life
Sense of guilt and sin
The Trap of self claim its prey..
Conclusion
Index
Abe Manon
David Ezra
Marry Christine
Lavinia Orin
Mannon Family
Mourning becomes Electra Largely regarded as American Tragedy.
Characters in tragedy are Fated or destined.In Greek and Shakespearean tragedies fate plays very vital role.
The tension between Puritanism and freedom, pride and love, death and life
The family fate of the New England Mannons is ancestral, not limited to one generation.
There is no super natural agency, employed by the dramatist to create tragedy.
Role of Fate
The house of Mannon, For them pride is the source of death, and love is the sourceof life.
Existence for the Mannons is life-in-death.
Love, represented by Marie Brantome, has been shut out.
Love rejected by pride and sin, and in death itself.
Pride of Puritanism which impelled Abe Mannon to expel David.
Pride as a source of death
Love and Life
Sense of guilt and sin, and disappointment forces characters to commit suicide. Christine takes her own life; by her frustrated love for Adam and hatred for his Husband, and as a reason for their death.Orin hates Lavinia as much as he desires her;
She is a constant reminder of guilt, driving him towards madness. He wants to become her, lover in order to force her to share his guilt.That force him to commit suicide.
Sin and guilt
Lavinia takes one more desperate effort to reach from behind her mask of death toward life.
she knows that the dead have not forgotten, and, will not rest until justice has been performed. She must pay.
She tells Peter goodbye, as Seth, the gardener, sings the refrain
of his “Shenandoah”.
When Lavinia “pivots sharply on her heel and marches woodenly into the house, closing the door behind her”, the tension between love and pride, life and death, is dissolved ; only, pride and death remain. Violated order has been restored the trap of self has finally and with finality claimed its inevitable prey.
The Trap Of Self Claims Its Prey
Eugene O’Neill Writing in mid of the twentieth century when psychology has developed much, and has intellectual audience who doesn’t believe in supernatural and thing like fate and destiny, thus he has to present his ideas about Destiny in much psychological way. Thus he used rather psychological concepts like Oedipus and Electra complex.
Conclusion
