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Mourning Becomes ElectraThe relationship between Ezra and Christine is . . . complicated. The play trilogy, Mourning Becomes Electra, by Eugene O'Neill, is set in New England at the of the Civil War. At the opening of the...
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Mourning Becomes ElectraThe title is intended to remind the reader of the ancient tragedies by Aeschylus and Euripides about the children of the House of Atreus. The plot evokes the Atreides' story by both its tragic...
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Mourning Becomes ElectraFor O'Neill, the Puritan atmosphere that encourages a lack of individual openness about one's own condition as well as a desire to be perceived as socially acceptable and socially sanctioned...
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Mourning Becomes ElectraThis play is an "updated" version of the Greek Tragedy Electra. Both Sophocles and Euripides wrote plays about this daughter of King Agamemnon, who was killed by his wife Clytemnestra upon...
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Mourning Becomes ElectraThe title works on two different levels; on an aural level, O'Neill makes it sound like the title refers to a positive rebirth and transformation. One could think of the image of "morning" becoming...
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Mourning Becomes ElectraThis play is actually made up of 3 different plays, a trilogy: The Homecoming, The Hunted, and The Haunted. To begin, then, let's define "tragedy": "a dramatic composition, often in verse,...