Edmund O Neill
Was born. 1883 and died 1885 was an American playwright and nobel laureate in literature . His poetically tittled plays were among the first to introduce into the US . The tragedy long Day's Journey into Night is often numsersed on the short list of the finest US plays in the 20th century
Long Day's Journey into Night is a play in four acts written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill in posthumously in 1956.
Theme of addiction long Day's Journey into Night
The plot of long days Journey into Night focuses On a dysfunctional family trying to come to grips with its ambivalent emotion in the face of serious familia problem including drug addiction moral degradation deep rooted fear and guilt and life threatening illnesse
1) Alienation and loneliness
The Tyrone family is fragmented and each of its memrers so some degree is alienated from the rest the most obvious estrangement exists between Tyrone and Jamie both of whom allow their bitterness to overwhelm whatever residual love and respect they have for. Each other.
2) Deception
Deception masks are worn early in the play in an effort to evade unpleasant truths. The other members of the family try to keep Mary from knowing that Edmund is seriously ill and Maryo obviously attempts to deceive herself with the comforting belief that Edmund in only Suffering from a summer cold Mary also attempts to hide her relapst into drug use with pathetic excuses that simply deepen the family's disappointment.
3) God and Religion
For Tyron a troubling problem is his sons rejection of their catholic faith a foundation stone in their shanty Irish heritage . His complaint about their rejection of religion occasion Jamie's scoffing observation that Tyron himself is a truant catholic which Tyron must admit he insists though that he still Believes in God which his sons do not.
4) Guilt and Innocence
Mary's illusory drug induced escape into her youth is partly a flight from guilt into a restored innocence and rediscovered faith . In their own ways the other Tyrone s try to unburden themselves of Guilt and shame either though expiation.
5) Loyalty
The loyalty of the three Tyrone men towards Mary has eroded because she has repeatedly dashed thier hopes for her recovery but their anger hurt and disappointment are an emotional index of thier love for her.
6) Memory and Reminiscence
Mary is not the only one with regrets about the past Tyrone is Haunted by his impoverished childhood and his father abandonment and eventual suicide.
7 ) Moral Corruption
Implicit in the respones to Mary's drug addiction is the belief that addiction was an indication of a weak moral will. Public disclosure of her behaviour seems to be more threatening to the family than Jamie's disgraceful drinking gambling and whoring.
8) Search for self
The principal searcher in long Day's Journey into Night is Edmund O Neill s alter ego . Both Mary and. Tyrone escause convent days and Tyrone to a time in his eareer resisted trading his talent for wealth .
9 ) Wealth and Poverty
Throughout long Day's Journey into Tyrone confirms the justice of Jamie's sneering attacks on him as a mister old gaspard as Jamie's calls him is obsessed with the cost of things and is always looking for the cheapest alternative.
