... you thought didn't know what they were doing? Some would be baffled by discovering that concept within the pages of a Neo-Classical play, Phaedra, by Racine. This work of literature would be considered by many to be nothing but a triadic play with little or no reasoning. Sometimes ... by what you read in-between the quotations marks. Examination will be complete over three interesting quotes from three exceedingly different characters from within this saga. Phaedra with her obsessive nature dealing with controlling her passions; Oenone showing that she understood how important her mistre...

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... the Elms. Desire Under the Elms represents one of the supreme moment in the history of American tragedy, because it is "the first important tragedy to be written in America."19 O‟Neill‟s treatment of the story seems almost Greek, both in the specific similarities and in the ... , Jay Ronald agrees with Edgar F. Racey on that Desire Under the Elms is based on the Greek myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus as well as Oedipus Tyrannus. They saw that: From Desire Under the Elms on, throughout O‟Neill's canon, the factor that determines the destiny of O'Neill's characters is ... father, as '...

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