Mourning Becomes Electra | Lavinia Mannon

Lavinia is the daughter of Ezra and Christine Mannon and Orin's sister. She is meant to resemble the Electra figure in O'Neill's retelling of the Orestia. She is a manipulative, evil woman.

Although she is somewhat in love with Captain Brant, she convinces Orin to kill him. She then drives her mother Christine to suicide. The two siblings travel to the South Seas to escape their mutual guilt and Lavinia sleeps with a local man. Exploiting Orin's feelings of guilt over Brant's murder and their mother's suicide, she drives him to commit suicide too.

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