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The Spiritual Vacuum and the Need for Belonging in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape | ||
| Journal of University of Babylon | ||
| Article 1, Volume 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 762-769 | ||
| Author | ||
| Zahraa Adnan Baqer | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The American individual has been yoked under the heavy burden of his/ her quite impossible aspiration of belonging in this world which is confined to the technological progression, the material development and the rejection of God. In this place of "unexplainable conditions combining hope and hopelessness where the sensitive man [dwells], facing extinction in modern society and searching for his identity …" , Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) appears with his characters who are "obsessed, driven,[and] haunted" heroes as a truth speaker searching for (understanding the absolute)2. O'Neill is the master of American Drama and has attracted the attention of critics around the world with his notable achievement. His men, like modern men, are lonely, alienated, and lacking in a sense of belonging. Besides, O'Neill has remarkably "become a major influence on the modern American theatre, exploring difficult subjects and experimenting with a variety of dramatic styles"3. | ||
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