Download or read book Of desire and passion A comparison between Beyond the Horizon and Desire under the Elms written by Nadine Kröschel and published by GRIN Verlag. This book was released on 2006-06-26 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seminar paper from the year 2003 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Marburg (FB 10: Fremdsprachliche Philologien), course: Procincetown Players, language: English, abstract: In 1918, Eugene O’Neill advocated a life within reality. Living outside reality, he sees as destructive. With this in mind, he wrote Beyond the Horizon. One of his later plays, Desire under the Elms, reverts in character to Beyond the Horizon, though it exhibits a fine progress in solidity and finish. Desire under the Elms is the last of O’Neill’s naturalistic plays and the first in which he re-created the starkness of Greek tragedy. The play involves O’Neill’s own family conflicts and Freudian treatment of sexual themes.Beyond the Horizon is O’Neill’s first major statement of the theme of self-deception, pipe dreams and life-lies, resulting out of passion and desire. At this point of his career, O’Neill believed that one must engage in the quest to find the ultimate meaning of life, to discover the mysterious behind-life force that lies just beyond the horizon. To his mind this was in fact the pursuit of a goal. Further in his career as a playwright, he begins to believe that just having a dream that can survive through time is more important than having a dream that is attainable or the pursuit of a dream. In Beyond the Horizon, Eugene O’Neill dramatizes the conflict of the opposing ideals of adventure and security, emotion and ratio, embodied in the two brothers, Robert and Andrew. O’Neill identifies himself with the lead character, Robert Mayo whereas he compares Roberts brother Andrew to his brother Jamie. Both brothers represent two parts, the poetic, emotional dreamer and the rational down-to-earth farmer. During the play, both brothers give up their desires and passions; one of them flees into materialism, the other into a world of pipe dreams. When O’Neill wrote Beyond the Horizon, he was only able to see and to tolerate the emotional level of behaving and acting; in other words: rationalism. That is, in his point of view, something negative, which must be prevented. But his opinion changes: in 1924, he tolerates that motif although he still neither likes it nor considers it as a good value. The emotional way of behaving still overweighs in Desire under the Elms but there can also be found a profound way of rationalism in the behaviour of his protagonists. This change of O’Neill’s opinion comes out clearly in the characterisation of Abbie Putnam, who changes from rationalism to emotionalism. The fact that O’Neill changes his point of view made him a child of his time. [...]
Download or read book Desire Under the Elms written by Eugene O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tragic drama by Nobel-Prize-Winning playwright. When an aged farmer brings a young wife home, greed, lust and jealousy lead to a horrific crime.
Download or read book O Neill written by Louis Scheaffer and published by Cooper Square Press. This book was released on 2002-08-19 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most lauded playwright in American history, Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) won four Pulitzer Prizes and a Nobel Prize for a body of work that includes The Iceman Cometh, Mourning Becomes Electra, Desire Under the Elms, and Long Day's Journey into Night. His life, the direct source for so much of his art, was one of personal tumult from the very beginning. The son of a famous actor and a quiet, morphine-addicted mother, O'Neill had experienced alcoholism, a collapse of his health, and bouts of mania while still a young man. Based on years of extensive research and access to previously untapped sources, Sheaffer's authoritative biography examines how the pain of O'Neill's childhood fed his desire to write dramas and affected his artistically successful and emotionally disastrous life.
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Download or read book Correspondence Instruction 1927 1928 written by University of North Carolina (1793-1962). University Extension Division and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Playwright s Progress written by Jordan Yale Miller and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives a critical profile of O'Neill, outlining in chronological order the critical response to his plays, beginning with the earliest one-act sea plays and continuing through the posthumous revivals and revolutions of his plays in the 1960s. It includes comments on successes and failures alike in an effort to offer as much critical balance as possible.
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Download or read book The Collected Works of Harold Clurman written by Harold Clurman and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2000-02 with total page 1124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Applause Books). For six decades, Harold Clurman illuminated our artistic, social, and political awareness in thousands of reviews, essays, and lectures. His work appeared indefatigably in The Nation, The New Republic, The London Observer, The New York Times, Harper's, Esquire, New York Magazine , and more. The Collected Works of Harold Clurman captures over six hundred of Clurman's encounters with the most significant events in American theatre as well as his regular passionate embraces of dance, music, art and film. This chronological epic offers the most comprehensive view of American theatre seen through the eyes of our most extraordinary critic. 1102 pages, hardcover.
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Download or read book Twenty Best Plays of the Modern American Theatre written by John Gassner and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Theatre written by Robert Cohen and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 2005 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This lively introduction to theatre offers equal measures of appreciation of theatrical arts, history of performance, and descriptions of the collaborative theatrical crafts. The author's enthusiasm for and knowledge of the current theatre, highlighted by contemporary production shots from around the world, put the students in the front row. The text includes extensive excerpts from seven plays: Prometheus Bound, Oedipus Tyrannos, The York Cycle, Romeo and Juliet, The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Three Sisters, and Happy Days.
Download or read book The New York Public Library Book of Popular Americana written by Tad Tuleja and published by MacMillan Publishing Company. This book was released on 1994 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to American popular culture includes information on history folklore, and other topics.
