Long Day's Journey Into Night Flashcards
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Long Day’s Journey Into Night Plot
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- Two people are sick (Edmund- consumption and Mary-addicted to morphine)
- Everyone is mad
- The men love to drink (addiction)
2
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Fog
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- HUGE SYMBOL
- literally fog around the house
- Mary –> morphine –> denial that Edmund has consumption
- James –> cheap/alcohol/stuck in the past –> won’t pay for a good doctor
- Jamie –> alcoholic –> won’t accept his shortcomings
- Edmund –> romanticism/alcohol –> won’t see things for how they are –> indulges in poetry –> tried to commit suicide
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Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953)
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- Parents: James and Ella Quinlan O’Neill
- grew up on the road with James (Count of Monte Cristo)
- “I want to be an artist or nothing.”
- Provincetown Players
- 4 pulitzer prize winning plays
- “his plays were his real children.”
4
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Kathleen Jenkins
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- married Eugene when he was 21
- had a son named Eugene Jr.
- their marriage was enulled
5
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Provincetown Players
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- Cape Cod & Greenwich Village
- adopted Eugene O’Neill as their playwright
6
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Agnes Boulton
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- married Eugene when he was 30
- 2 children with Eugene –> Oona (who went on to marry Charlie Chaplin when she was 18, for which Eugene disowned her) and Shane O’Neill (jumped out of a 4 story window)
7
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Carlotta Monterey
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- played Muriel in “The Hairy Ape”
- Married Eugene in 1929
- longest marriage Eugene had
8
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Ah, Wilderness!
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- the only comedy O’Neill wrote
- he wished his life was like this
9
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Pulitzer Prize Winning Plays
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- Beyond the Horizon (1918)
- Anna Christie (1922)
- Strange Interlude (1928)
- Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1957) –> written in 1941
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James O’Neill
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- father of Eugene
- played The Count of Monte Cristo and made his fortune off of it
- kept Eugene on the road for most, if not all of his upbringing
- James Tyrone is based on him
