1. Disintegration the Family in Desire Under the Elms
... God within one's own soul''.45 So if the stones have spiritual ordering principle at work, then the stones on the Cabot's farm, from which Ephraim has built walls, have honorific significance pointing to the qualities of his character. The stoniness of the Cabot farm is first indicated in the play by the stage direction. ''The south end of the house faces front to a stone wall with a ... rebelled against American cultural development, which placed material values above spiritual goals. He saw beauty, art, and all human relations corrupted by the insane pursuit of gold.''59 In other word...
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