Theories Flashcards
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Quotes
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The quotes or rather the allusions used are all integral to the plot, theme and even characters of the play.
- James Tyrone’s Shakespearean quotations are primarily moralistic aphorisms (laurin porter)
- Two of Jamies shakespearean quotes are of Iago (laurin porter) notably he becomes an iago converts his mother to desdemona and both father and brother as othello by referring to him as such in the former and corrupting the latter. (gerard meaney)
- Jamie is O’Neill’s Hamlet. His life revolves around the condition of his mother. (Normand Berlin)
- the allusions function as a kind of shorthand to indicate the conflicting worldviews of the father and sons(laurin porter), and the evolutionary literary and philosophical tastes generationally
- James and Jamie represent 2 ends of the spectrum of literature and edmund is the transitionary
