The Tragic Vision of the Matrimonial Relationships in Eugene O’Neill’s Family Plays

Bassim Mohammed Dahash Al - Jizani

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The Tragic Vision of the Matrimonial Relationships in Eugene O’Neill’s Family Plays

Bassim Mohammed Dahash Al - Jizani

Published in International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 4, Issue 2)

Received: 26 February 2016 Accepted: 6 March 2016 Published: 23 March 2016

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Desire Under the Elms (1924), Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) and Long Day’s Journey into Night (1941) are very important family plays in Eugene O’Neill. The plays illustrate a tragic vision matrimonial relationship in dysfunctional families at that time. He presents the important tragic visions of the families. This paper proposes O’Neill as the father of modern American drama. This paper also examines and presents crises of familial disintegration of American family.

Published in	International Journal of Literature and Arts (Volume 4, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.ijla.20160402.11
Page(s)	20-24
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
Copyright	Copyright © The Author(s), 2016. Published by Science Publishing Group

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Tragic Vision, Ethical Crises, Religion, Emotional Deficiency, Betrayal, Violence

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Bassim Mohammed Dahash Al - Jizani. The Tragic Vision of the Matrimonial Relationships in Eugene O’Neill’s Family Plays. Int J Lit Arts. 2016;4(2):20-24. doi: 10.11648/j.ijla.20160402.11

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School of Foreign Languages, English Department, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan City, Hubei Province, China

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