ENGL 314 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Institute For Operations Research And The Management Sciences, Morphine
21 Feb 2018
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It"s meant to be an intense and serious moment at the end of the play where a gorilla helps him understand the true meaning of human contact: long day"s journey into night. Eugene was a socially minded person and the younger son (edmund) in the play is a substitute for eugene o"neill himself. This play has two different kinds of tragedies: a social tragedy, an existential tragedy; some unavoidable core of loneliness found inside the characters. The stage directions are very specific in terms of what the characters should look like. Many lines of dialogue have a stage direction attributed to them (such as. One of the themes in this play is that the love the family feels for eachother is inseparable from a loathe they feel for eachother. This play is about a remarkable amount of ambivalence that exists between them as well as a lack of agency they posses over their actions towards eachother.
