Journey

Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill is a complicated story. It shows a day in the life of a dysfunctional family. This family is made up of four extremely different personalities. Tyrone is the sympathetic father. Mary is the morphine addicted mother. Jamie is the difficult older son and Edmond is the sick younger son. Everyone in this family has their strengths and weaknesses. In Tyrone’s case his strengths and the weight of his family’s weakness makes him the most sympathetic

Virtuous Ignorance? A Comparison of A Long Day 's Journey Into Night and Birdman In the art of storytelling, the artist tends to rely on a specific pattern of story development. This pattern, as we have seen in the numerous literary examples that we have read so far, naturally conforms to a rigid framework—one that we, as humans, repeatedly desire. This framework was described by Dan Harmon as “the story circle”, and mirrors the cyclical nature of our conscious perceptive capabilities, as well

as thoses who have supported them all their life, through the positive and negative times. In Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill, writes about a family that seems well rounded but is unfortunately going through the struggle of an alcohol and drug problem. These characters fail to see they can turn to each other due to the dishonesty between the Tyrone’s family. In Long Day’s Journey Into Night, it is a play that takes place in the living room of the James Tyrone summer home in August,

American Religion in Long Days Journey into Night               The modernist sentiments throughout Long Days Journey into Night, by Eugene O'Neill, are apparent in many different ways.  Among the methods he used was the portrayal of America's withdrawal from traditional religion and modes of behavior.  He used his immigrant Irish family, the Tyrones, as a pedestal for this idea by highlighting their departure from traditional

horrifying sounds and sights; gruesome acts and frightening ghosts like Macbeth? Or would you write about a seemingly normal family from the outside, where the unknown hides from behind common decisions and objects. First and foremost, Long Day Journey into night by Eugene O'neill and Macbeth by Shakespeare share a common theme with each other. The characters in both of these dramas lack communication with one another. Let’s examine Macbeth first. The playwright Macbeth begins with Macbeth, who

melancholy nor tragedy but farce’. Discuss in relation to A Sentimental Journey. There exists the idea that the period occupied by sentiment was one of refined and intellectual emotion. However, it seems that if this notion ever existed, it was quickly overcome with literature occupying the theme of farce, either ironically or obliviously. A specific example we can point to to clearly demonstrate this idea is A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy by Laurence Sterne. While some contemporaries

Time in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus said in his theory of the Universal Flux that "everything flows and nothing abides; everything gives way and nothing stays fixed. You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters and yet others go ever flowing on... Time is a child moving counters in a game." (Allen 103) And so it is with the characters in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night. Time is little more than

	In the play Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill, the Tyrone family is haunted not by what is present in flesh facing them, but by memories and constant reminders of what has been the downfall of the family for years. " No it can never be now. But it was once, before you-" (72) [James Tyrone referring to the Morphine addiction of his wife, Mary, which attributed to the undoing of the family]. Their trials and tribulations are well documented by O’Neill through

Long Days Journey: The Significance of Fog (8) A Long Day’s Journey Into Night, by Eugene O’Neill, is a deeply autobiographical play. His life was rampant with confusion and addictions in his family. Each character in this play has a profound resemblance, and draws parallels and connections with a member of his own family. The long journey that the title of the play refers to is a journey into his past. Fog is a recurring metaphor in the play; it is a physical presence even before it becomes a crucial

“rational, strong, protective, and decisive” while woman as “emotional (irrational), weak, nurturing, and submissive” (Tyson 85). Because of such system, women are indoctrinated into the mentality that they are inferior to men. In the play, Long Day’s Journey into Night, Eugene O’Neill portrays Mary Tyrone, the female protagonist, was being oppressed