CHAPTER – I INTRODUCTION 1.1. Origin and Development of American Literature A fundamental difference subsists between American literature and proximately all the other major literary traditions of the world: it is essentially a modern‚ recent and international literature. The American continent possessed major pre-Columbian civilizations‚ with a deep heritage of culture‚ mythology‚ ritual‚ chant and poetry. Many recent American writers‚ especially recently‚ have looked to these sources as something
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BIOGRAPHY OF EUGENE O’ NEILL Eugene Gladstone O’Neill was born in a New York City hotel room on 16th October‚ 1888‚he son of famous actor James O’Neill and Ella O’Neill‚ spent the first seven years of his life touring with his father’s theater company. These years introduced O’Neill to the world of theater and the difficulties of maintaining artistic integrity. His father‚ once a well-known Shakespearean‚ had taken a role in a lesser play for its sizable salary. Family life was unstable. O ’Neill
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A Portrait of a Genius One of America ’s finest playwrights‚ Eugene Gladstone O ’Neill ’s great tragedies were greatly influenced by his own experiences with his dysfunctional family. He used these occurrences to craft one of the most successful careers in the earliest 20th century‚ earning countless awards including the Nobel Prize for Literature‚ four Pulitzer Prizes‚ Antoinette Perry Award and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award. Out of all of these Greek-like tragedies there emerged his
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Eugene O’Neill has been a essential author in the life of the melodramatic genre. In contrast to other “pure” melodramatic authors like Boucicault‚ he has transcended the limitations of this dramatic form and has given it a new dimension. If we take into consideration the Greek conventions and the Aristotelian six elements to create a well-made play‚ we could affirm that Melodrama emphasizes every of those elements except for character‚ and so the main contribution that O’Neill made to this genre
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The Emperor Jones by Eugene O’Neill The first question that came to me while reading O’Nelil’s play “the Emperor Jones“ was: “would anybody seriously still bring that play to the stage today?“ The answer is‚ as I found out with a quick look into the Internet: “Yes!“ I found a review of a production of the “Irish Repertory Theatre” that was not dated but seemed to be pretty recent. The review doesn’t give a lot of detail about the production‚ but only that the lead actor is brilliant and the
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Eugene Gladstone O’Neill is one of the greatest American playwrights‚ he is known for plays such as “Long Day’s Journey into Night” ‚”Beyond the Horizon” (1920)‚ “Anna Christie” (1922)‚ “Strange Interlude” (1928)‚ “Mourning Becomes Electra”(1931)and The Iceman Cometh (1946). His plays probe the American Dream‚ race relations‚ class conflicts‚ sexuality‚ human aspirations and psychoanalysis. He often became immersed in the modernist movements of his time as he primarily sought to create “modern
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Author Eugene O’Neill was an American playwright and Nobel Laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov. His plays were among the first to introduce speechless in American vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society‚ where they struggle to maintain their hope and aspirations‚ but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. Eugene O’Neill’s
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The Misfit‚ a Character beyond Redemption”() In Flannery O’ Connor’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find‚” the Misfit is a character who is interpreted as the epitome of evil. He had just escaped the federal penitentiary‚ and‚ according to the Misfit‚ he was incarcerated for allegedly killing his own father. He encounters a family who has been involved in an accident. The play culminates with the Misfit shooting and brutally murdering the grandmother after she reaches out to him. Despite the
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Eugene Onegin The character of Eugene Onegin reflects a unique and authentic literary period which created its own canons and ideals. Eugene Onegin does not possess heroic features‚ but represents an idealized character of a man typical for his period of time. An extremely valuable thing he does is to reveal the existence of a kind of common basis of feeling; that is to say‚ in literature readers come in contact with ex¬pression of feeling in a way that is rarely possible in actual life. The events
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In the 1820s‚ Eugene Onegin is a bored St. Petersburg dandy‚ whose life consists of balls‚ concerts‚ parties and nothing more. One day he inherits a landed estate from his uncle. When he moves to the country‚ he strikes up a friendship with his neighbor‚ a starry-eyed young poet named Vladimir Lensky. One day‚ Lensky takes Onegin to dine with the family of his fiancée‚ the sociable but rather thoughtless Olga Larina. At this meeting he also catches a glimpse of Olga’s sister Tatyana. A quiet‚ precocious
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