... the Elms on, throughout O‟Neill's canon, the factor that determines the destiny of O'Neill's characters is the conflicting influence of 'father and mother'. Their overwhelming troughly equivalent to Oedipus and Electra complex.22 In Desire Under the Elms, O‟Neill made a radical change. He changed the pattern of the old Greek tragedies and created an essentially a new myth as racey concluded that ... ...

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... sexual love for his mother and his subsequent hostility and jealousy toward his father. A similar attraction of a daughter to her father and rivalry with her mother; more specifically called the Electra complex. The Oedipus complex is seen through out the book, Sons and Lovers. Mrs. Morel is sexuality repressed woman and figuratively takes her two eldest sons as her lovers. Figuratively ... ...

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