The unfulfilled desire in Eugene O'Neill's" Desire Under The Elms": a critical study
Other Title(s)
الرغبة غير المتحققة في مسرحية يوجين اونيل "رغبة تحت أشجار الدردار"
Author
Source
Journal of Basrah Researches : Humanities
Issue
Vol. 44, Issue 2 (30 Jun. 2019), pp.1-11, 11 p.
Publisher
University of Basrah College of Education for Human Sciences
Publication Date
2019-06-30
Country of Publication
Iraq
No. of Pages
11
Main Subjects
Topics
Abstract EN
Desire Under the Elms is one of the significant American plays that sheds lights on the importance of dream and desire for the Americans at that time .
O'Neill draws his characters carefully trying to show their aims to reach their goals and desires.
O'Neill builds his drama in an expressionistic and realistic mood to highlight their blind search for fulfilling their plans and intentions.
The current paper tackles three main characters of the play entitled " Desire Under The Elms" because the other characters have less or no significant role in comparison with the main three characters.
The paper is divided into three parts according to the importance of the characters.
The researcher is going to analyze , evaluate and elaborate the behaviours , the motives and the actions of each of these characters reaching his aim which is to determine which desire is severely violated and unfulfilled.
Each of the characters has his own deadening desires that triggers his mind and heart to follow.
According to the paper the father's new wife who is the lover of her step son is the one whose desire is ruthlessly destroyed and unachieved because of her eagerness and incestuous appetite to capture each and everything which is of course impossible .
She would lose her son , her husband and everything she dreams of to be under her possession for the sake of her lover.
American Psychological Association (APA)
Abbas, Ahmad Hashim. 2019. The unfulfilled desire in Eugene O'Neill's" Desire Under The Elms": a critical study. Journal of Basrah Researches : Humanities،Vol. 44, no. 2, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-894277
Modern Language Association (MLA)
Abbas, Ahmad Hashim. The unfulfilled desire in Eugene O'Neill's" Desire Under The Elms": a critical study. Journal of Basrah Researches : Humanities Vol. 44, no. 2 (2019), pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-894277
American Medical Association (AMA)
Abbas, Ahmad Hashim. The unfulfilled desire in Eugene O'Neill's" Desire Under The Elms": a critical study. Journal of Basrah Researches : Humanities. 2019. Vol. 44, no. 2, pp.1-11.
https://search.emarefa.net/detail/BIM-894277
Data Type
Journal Articles
Language
English
Notes
Includes bibliographical references : p. 10-11
Record ID
BIM-894277