Mourning Becomes Electra

drive. The desperation that can be so easily detected is less likely to be a result of being apart from her husband; it is more probable that she felt that way after losing all the laughter, love and happiness of her child after he died. Lastly, the Electra complex argument that is so often attached to this song could allude to the fact that she was a one desperate woman in fear of losing her beloved husband - her guardian. However, this premise can be easily refuted by the fact that Rosália De Castro

O’Neill had dark and violent views of human nature. He used the theatrical methods, that no one else have ever used before. The way that he used them carried an emotional power never seen before in America. Some of his best known plays were “Mourning Becomes Electra,” “The Iceman Cometh,” and “A Long Day’s Journey Into Night.” A good number of American writers produced great poetry during the nineteen twenties. The most famous was written by T. S. Elliot, and it was called “The Waste Land.” Another famous

Judith anderson was an australian actress. Judith birth name was Frances margaret anderson and she was born on frbruary 10, 1987, in adelaine, south australia to Jessie Margaret and James Anderson Anderson. Judith attended norwood high school. She made her debut in 1915 as her birth name at the threatre royal in sydney, playing stephanie, in a royal divorce with a scottish actor julius knight whom she gave the credits for helping her in acting. There were some american actors who suggested her to

five month. O’Neill returned to his parents’ home. It was there among the turmoil of a despondent father and a morphine-addicted mother, he became an emotionally turbulent person characterized by drunken sprees that was one reason that he decided to become a playwright. During his recuperation, O'Neill read voraciously. His reading ranged across the whole Western dramatic canon, but he devoted special attention to Ibsen, Wedekind, and above all, Strindberg He began to write in earnest, working

Not all have survived throughout time, as there are only seven complete plays of his that are still in existence. These plays are: “Ajax”, “Antigone”, “The Trachinae”, “Oedipus the King”, “Electra”, “Philoctetes”, and “Oedipus at Colonus.” Of these seven plays, three are referred to as the Theban plays, as they take place in Thebes, these three being “Oedipus the King”, “Oedipus at Colonus”, and “Antigone” (Ancient Greece - Sophocles”). These

07 1 THE BRITISH ACADEMY THE ANNUAL SHAKESPEARE LECTURE 1914 Hamlet and Orestes A Study in Traditional Types By Gilbert Murray, LL.D., D.Litt. Regius Professor of Greek in the University of Oxford Fellow of the Academy New York Oxford University Press American Branch 35 West 32nd Street London : Humphrey Milford THE BRITISH ACADEMY THE ANNUAL SHAKESPEARE LECTURE 1914 Hamlet and Orestes A Study in Traditional Types By Gilbert Murray

Introduction Shakespearean tragedy is a story of one, or at most two persons. As a rule, they are male protagonists. But to say that Shakespeare’s female characters are shallow, undeveloped and used just as a decoration on the stage is very wrong. Women in Shakespeare’s tragedies have no leading role and they are, to paraphrase Northrop Frye,[1] not tragic heroines, but heroines in a tragedy. All female characters in Shakespeare’s tragedies have one thing in common – they end up dead. It is

Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill is a modern twist on the mythological tale of Phaedra and Hippolytus. In writing this piece, in 1924, O’Neill delivers a captivating and somewhat comical version of the classic myth. Stuck in the transition from the Modernism to Postmodernism movements, O’Neill struggled to define himself as either a modernist or postmodernist. The Modernism movement is made up of a variety of different movements: philosophical, artistic, and literary. The artistic and literary

Greek Mythology  I  INTRODUCTION  Temple of Apollo at Didyma  The Greeks built the Temple of Apollo at Didyma, Turkey (about 300 bc). The temple supposedly housed an oracle  who foretold the future to those seeking knowledge. The predictions of the oracles, delivered in the form of riddles,  often brought unexpected results to the seeker. With Ionic columns reaching 19.5 m (64 ft) high, these ruins  suggest the former grandeur of the ancient temple.  Bernard Cox/Bridgeman Art Library, London/New York 

ANTIGONE KEY LITERARY ELEMENTS SETTING This tragedy is set against the background of the Oedipus legend. It illustrates how the curse on the House of Labdacus (who is the grandson of Cadmus, founder of Thebes, and the father of Laius, whose son is Oedipus) brought about the deaths of Oedipus and his wife-mother, Jocasta, as well as the double fratricide of Eteocles and Polynices. Furthermore, Antigone dies after defying King Creon. The play is set in Thebes, a powerful city-state north of Athens