Topic: Image of Family in Mourning Becomes Electra

Name: Rabhadiya Vinod J.Semester: 3Year: 2014-15Roll no: 32Paper No: 10 The American literature Email: vjrabhadiya@gmail.com

S.B. Gardi,Dept of English ,

M.K.University Bhavnagar

Eugene o’ Neil was born in 1888. He was American playwright.

His famous works:

“ Beyond the Horizen”(1918)

“ Ama Christie” (1920)

Introduction

Mourning Becomes Electra

The

Homecoming

(4 Acts)

The Hunted

(5 Acts)

The Haunted

(4 Acts)

In Image of Broken Mannon’s Family

In ideal family

Broken and Fragmented image of Mannon’s Family

In ideal family

Love

Fallings

Attachment

Unity

Trust

Compassion

Cursed Family Despair and Frustration Historical Background

- Electra- Oedipus

Hope Death of the father and husband Effect of War

House resembles Tomb

Solitude

Broken family

Haunting

She is wooden , stiff-shouldered daughter , flat-chested , thin, angular and dressed in simple black. Lavinia appears as the keeper of the family crypt and all its secrets. She repressive stiffness and mask-like countenance mirrors that of the house.

She is a striking woman of forty with a fine , voluptuous figure flowing animal grace , and a mass of beautiful copper hair. Her pale face is also a life mask , a mask that represents both hair duplicity and her almost super-human efforts at repression.

Mannon’s Family Fragmented Characters.

As his homophonic name suggests , he is Agamemnon’s counterpart. He is the important for law in this form than as a broken , bitter, ruined husband. His mannerisms ,and his statue of a great man standing in a square.

Mannon Family Fragmented Characters.

He bears a striking resemblance to his father and Captain Brant, though he appears as a weakened , refined and oversensitive version of each. He loves his mother incestuously, flying into a jealous rage upon the discovery of her Mother love affair that leads death.

Living death of Lavinia

The evil of love

Electra Complex

Ezra Mannon

LavinaMannon

Christine Adam Brant