1. Disintegration the Family in Desire Under the Elms
... modern plays with classical myth patterns, characters and themes and weaves them into the current philosophical ideas.34 Desire Under the Elms, a tragedy in three parts by O'Neill produced in 1924 and published in 1925. The last of O'Neill's naturalistic play and the first to which he re-created the starkness of Greek tragedy, Desire draws from Euripides Hippolytus and Jean Racine's Phedre, both ... of which feature returning home with a new wife falls in love with her stepson. The play opens in 1850, on a farm of Ephraim Cabot, the hard-working, God-fearing man. ... Neill rebelled aga...
- Word Count: 9352
- Approx Pages: 37
- Has Bibliography
- Grade Level: High School