Eugene O'Neill

something to simply forget about, Sassoon seems to express a greater degree of empathy which is certainly a result of his experience on the frontlines during the War. Discussion of shell shock can also be found in the arts. American playwright, Eugene O’Neill, wrote the one act play “Shell Shock” in 1918, which features a combatant in the First World War, Wayne, who is assigned to work with afflicted patients. One of his friends from the war, Jack, returns and describes his experience returning…

different periods of his canon to compare similar trends as Williams’s texts changed over time. The second, and perhaps more helpful definition, of canon would be Williams generally acceptance into the canon of Modern American drama, alongside Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, and Lillian Hellman. In this sense, Williams is one of the few playwrights from the mid-twentieth century chosen for high school English courses, where canonization leads to the importance and general awareness of Williams’s…

relationship between guilt, murder, and other criminal acts in his book, Crime and Punishment. In his love, guilt, and redemption philosophy, Nietzsche says that guilt is associated heavily with criminal acts, just like Dostoevsky. Playwright Eugene O’Neill reads what Dostoevsky and Nietzsche have to say and include them in his play The Iceman Cometh. He resembles the feeling of guilt with Parritt’s mother and Hickey’s wife. In Macbeth and Othello guilt is a very obvious factor in the story and…

My essay will be about 1930s art. Art in the 30s was barely hanging on because everyone was poor because of the evil great depression. If I were born in the 1930s I’d probably go to every art show because the art back in the day was so colorful and nice looking. Art was how people survived during the great depression because art boosted national pride and helped Americans get jobs. Also in order for artists to stay in business they had to have mass audiences. But, many places didn’t get as…

milk.." I guess we're all hunting like everybody else for a way the diligent and sensible can rise to the top and the lazy and quarrelsome can sink to the bottom ". Structure that use in Our Town by Thornton Wilder's direction sets himself as Eugene O'Neill, Tennessee William,William Inge and American theatrical drama writer that the time have the innovations. He uses third play part as basic structure to be played, however at this time he is still using differences from tradition. Thornton…

"Obsessed by a fairytale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace" (Eugene O'Neill). People are brought up being taught that that a fairytale is a fictional story that may feature folkloric characters and enchantments, often involving a far fetched sequence of events. But the reality is fairytales are fabricated stories, intended to deceive the reader. Disney deceives its readers by heavily fluffing up its stories with enchantment, taking away the story line…

Though he wrote more than just "Catcher in the Rye", reclusive author J.D. Salinger never could escape the legacy of a book that still sells 250,000 copies worldwide per year. Published in June 1951, "Rye" gives us a 16-year-old teenager for the ages in Salinger's Holden Caulfield, a character whose observations from a California mental hospital still resonate some seven decades later. Salinger's novel polarized audiences and has continued to do so all these years since Salinger released the…

The first amendment of the US Constitution conveys that congress is prohibited from creating a law that restricts the freedom of speech, religion, press, or the right to petition. According to history.com, “The US Constitution established America’s national government and fundamental laws, and guaranteed certain basic rights for its citizens”. Though, it is still in the US Constitution today, its become more insignificant when laws are being regulated or put into place. Claire Mullally found…

Changes affect people every day, and people react to changes in many ways. In Long Day’s Journey into Night, the characters experience many trials and obstacles in their lives that induced a change. In physics, there is the principle known as the Coriolis Effect or Force, which is the effect a rotating object has on the motion of another object. The trials experienced in the lives of the characters are the Coriolis Force in their lives that induced the change in their behavior or lifestyle. The…

These works were created by authors who truly wanted to challenge previously accepted norms and, instead, showcase and embrace the changing society. Authors such as J.D. Salinger, Eugene O’Neill, and Adrienne Rich truly seemed to capture the essence of the 50’s era in their vast variety of works. Specifically in Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, the main protagonist, Holden Caulfield, outwardly rejects all of the norms that society has…