Part. II .Literature Review
Eugene O’Neill as the father of the American theatre and a winner of the Nobel Prize has undergone many studies and critical books were written on him. The author of Mourning Becomes Electra is a creative and versatile dramatist. His works brings about the many schools of art and literature into real life application.
The other scholars have applied the naturalism, expressionism and the existentialism. Thus, all these movements can express the defeats and wrongful behaviours of the individuals in a more practical way. The researcher in this study tries to bridge the gulf left by the absence of the term of the realism. It would fit in a perfect way to address the realities of the individuals and how they build their relationship with others. …show more content…
The researcher here explains the alienated characters as they all in seek of something to hold on to. They feel lost in an indifferent world ,they are in a quest for something to believe in that is ‘reality’. The sense of alienation from nature and a war between sexes, the endless struggle between the spiritual and materialistic goals.
The other research that was made on the works of Eugene O’Neill is made by the researcher Dally George that is entitled “Archetypical Existentialism in the Selected Plays of Eugene O’Neill and Girish Kanrad” in this thesis the researcher have made a successful attempt at correlating the Archetypal existentialist traits in the characters of selected plays of Eugene O’Neill and Girish Kanrad. There is a similarity between two different social melium authors, in a way that they make use of the myths, archetypes, psychoanalysis and theories of existentialism to show how their characters fall victims of the