August: Osage County-Alesha Jeter
ITR 1
Summary:
In Mrs. Bickert’s class, Modern American Drama, we have been reading plays about the struggles of American society. One of the that we have read is a play called Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill. This play tells the story about a family struggling with addiction, and they’re hard and eventually vain attempt to fix things. They play in a drama and is semi-autobiographical. The play that I read to compare in comparison, is a dark comedy play called August: Osage County by Tracy Letts. It has many characters but the main characters are the Weston sisters, Barbara, Karen, and Ivy, and their mother, Violet. It has similar themes to Long Day’s Journey, such as communication, addiction, and acceptance. This play takes place outside of Pawhuska, Oklahoma and it begins with a prologue. We meet Beverly Weston, who used to be a …show more content…
In Long Day’s Journey into Night, Mary feels lonely and just wants to have a better relationship with her family. Jamie even admits to his brother that he has shaped him into falling into his addiction to alcohol and one might argue that he did this so that if he was a failure, then Edmund would be a failure too. In August: Osage County many of the character fear the idea of being alone. For example, even when Karen finds Steve half naked with her fourteen-year-old nice, Jean, she simply puts the blame on her and refuses to let anything get in the way of her perfect engagement and her future happy life with Steve. Another example would be at the end of the play, when Barbara has left Violet on her own. Violet probably did not mean to do the things that she had done. She missed Barbara desperately. And when Barbara left, she broke down like a child into the lap of her housekeeper. These plays both show that without the gift of family, things go downhill to the point that people are ruining their lives with
ITR 1
Summary:
In Mrs. Bickert’s class, Modern American Drama, we have been reading plays about the struggles of American society. One of the that we have read is a play called Long Day’s Journey into Night by Eugene O’Neill. This play tells the story about a family struggling with addiction, and they’re hard and eventually vain attempt to fix things. They play in a drama and is semi-autobiographical. The play that I read to compare in comparison, is a dark comedy play called August: Osage County by Tracy Letts. It has many characters but the main characters are the Weston sisters, Barbara, Karen, and Ivy, and their mother, Violet. It has similar themes to Long Day’s Journey, such as communication, addiction, and acceptance. This play takes place outside of Pawhuska, Oklahoma and it begins with a prologue. We meet Beverly Weston, who used to be a …show more content…
In Long Day’s Journey into Night, Mary feels lonely and just wants to have a better relationship with her family. Jamie even admits to his brother that he has shaped him into falling into his addiction to alcohol and one might argue that he did this so that if he was a failure, then Edmund would be a failure too. In August: Osage County many of the character fear the idea of being alone. For example, even when Karen finds Steve half naked with her fourteen-year-old nice, Jean, she simply puts the blame on her and refuses to let anything get in the way of her perfect engagement and her future happy life with Steve. Another example would be at the end of the play, when Barbara has left Violet on her own. Violet probably did not mean to do the things that she had done. She missed Barbara desperately. And when Barbara left, she broke down like a child into the lap of her housekeeper. These plays both show that without the gift of family, things go downhill to the point that people are ruining their lives with