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    The Hairy Ape The childhood of Yank had been a complete distressing childhood that Yank never wanted to talk about. Yank had gone through horrible moments when he was a child. Listening to his father who was abusive was a misery for Yank as a kid. Yank’s parents used to fight severely every night that they would break the furniture. Yank left his home when his mother died because of tremens. Yank was so tired of his father’s punishment and beatings that he had no other option but to run away from

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    in Heaven‚ get me? I ’m in de middel tryin ’ to seperate em‚ takin all de woist punches from bot ’ of ’em. Maybe dat ’s whay dey call Hell‚ huh?” Yank from Eugene O’Neill’s‚ The Hairy Ape2 “A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life in Eight Scenes.” This was the subtitle aptly given to Eugene O’Neill’s play The Hairy Ape.1 When reading the play a person might find some parts humorous; the inarticulate dialogue from the workers or maybe the extremely stuck-up‚ almost stereotypical‚ attitude of Mildred

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    Is The Hairy Ape an expressionistic play? Expressionism is a movement began in early 20th century in German and soon spread over the whole Europe. It initiated in paintings and quickly started to include music‚ literature and architecture. It was a new technique used in drama of Strindberg and later became a theatrical movement round about the First World War. O’Neill was influenced by them and his play titled The Hairy Ape illustrated expressionistic style. The expressionistic touch is found from

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    THE HAIRY APE A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life In Eight Scenes By EUGENE O’NEILL AN ELECTRONIC CLASSICS SERIES PUBLICATION The Hairy Ape: A Comedy of Ancient and Modern Life by Eugene O’Neill is a publication of The Electronic Classics Series. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file‚ for any purpose‚ and in any way does so at his or her own risk. Neither the Pennsylvania State University nor Jim

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    Department An essay about: The sources of difficulty in understanding “The Hairy Ape” Subject: Drama Instructor: Dr. Tara Dabbagh Written by: Brwa‚ Eman‚ Hawnaz‚ Mariam‚ Mazin Date: 29/11/2011 Expressionism was one of the movements that appeared in the early 20th century. It is soon applied to drama. Among the playwrights who wrote expressionistic plays is Eugene O’Neil. His play “the hairy ape” considered as an expressionistic play. Though this kind of drama is new

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    In Eugene O’Neill’s story‚ The Hairy Ape introduces a number of characters such as Robert Smith (Yank)‚ Paddy and Mildred Douglas who come from all walks of life but are all in figurative cages and sometimes literal ones. Some cages they choose to place ourselves in such as addiction‚ social status and need to sacrifice their freedom to get what they feel each one feels they need in life. While many feel these cages are the fault of others and there is no escape‚ the opposite is usually true. Yank

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    Style "The Hairy Ape" was done in the expressionist style of theater. Expressionism is the theatrical technique which will use the staging and setting to show the characters inner emotion or the keep the theme constantly within the audience’s sight. In Expressionism‚ characters do not act or talk the way they really would‚ everything is extreme to prove a point. In Expressionism plausibility is deliberately altered by the author to make the theme clear. Characters Yank Yank represents the lower

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    The Hairy Ape displays O’Neill’s social concern for the oppressed industrial working class. Eugene O Neill’s The Hairy Ape can be considered as a tragedy. But it is not a conventional tragedy in the Aristotelian tradition but is a modern one. Its subject matter and theme is the same‚ but its form is different. It is a great tragedy with a difference. In later part of my answer I’ll try to evaluate the play as a modern tragedy. A modern tragedy is a term used in literature to often describe a playwright

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    Planet of the Apes Satire

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    movie compared to the setting in the book makes Planet of the Apes one of the greatest satires. In the movie‚ the setting takes place on earth in the future where apes deny and are afraid of the past‚ whereas the setting in the book is on a different planet where apes are civilized and technologically advanced‚ and the humans were primitive creatures. The orangutans in the movie prevent what happened to the humans from happening to the apes. Orangutans‚ such as Zaius went to great work as destroying

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    2013 A Modern Tragedy – The Hairy Ape by Eugene O’Neill Inside Eugene O’Neill’s “The Hairy Ape” the main character‚ Yank‚ embodies the beleaguered working class of a capitalist culture. As Mr. O’Neill’s was understood to be a zealous socialist himself believing that a society should and can work together‚ as a whole‚ towards a better world; the reader of “the Hairy Ape” can see and understand his views. Eugene O ’Neill ’s supreme creation “The Hairy Ape” has the drama necessary to relay

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