Mourning Becomes Electra | "Eugene O'Neill's Paradise Lost: The Theme of the Islands in Mourning Becomes Electra"
In the following essay, Werner contends that the theme of the islands in O'Neill's play represents the recovery of the paradise of the original bond between mother and son.
In the plays of Eugene O'Neill, the breaking of the bond between a son and a mother is a common pattern, figuring an original fall from innocence. Just as O'Neill's biography can be read as a series of unsuccessful attempts to re-establish in adulthood the kind of...
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