Oedipus Complex in Mourning Becomes Electra
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Name : Solanki Pratiksha M. Roll No : 21 Enrolment No : PG 13101032 Paper : 10. The American Literature Sem : 3. (2014-2015) Subject : Oedipus Complex in Mourning Becomes Electra Submitted to : Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English M.K.Bhavnagar University [email protected]
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Oedipus Complex in Mourning Becomes Electra
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Name : Solanki Pratiksha M.Roll No : 21
Enrolment No : PG 13101032Paper : 10. The American Literature
Sem : 3. (2014-2015)Subject : Oedipus Complex in
Mourning Becomes ElectraSubmitted to :
Smt. S.B. Gardi Department of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University [email protected]
Eugene O'Neill O'Neill was an Irish American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature..Occupation : PlaywrightFull Name : Eugene Gladstone O'NeillBorn : 16 October, 1888.Died : 27 November, 1953. His Masterpiecea)Long Day's Journey into Night( 1957)b)Beyond the Horizon (1920)c)Anna Christie (1922)
Mourning Becomes Electra
• Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American playwright Eugene O'Neill.
• Published in 1931• Mourning Becomes Electra is
extraordinarily lengthy for a drama.
• Characters from the ancient Greek play.
• Freudian perspective.
•Various characters : Oedipus complexes and Electra
complexes.• Mourning Becomes Electra is
divided into three plays.•Themes : The Oresteia trilogy by
Aeschylus.1. Homecoming,2. The Hunted,3. The Haunted.
Oedipus complex
Oedipus
Emotions
Desire Ideas
to have sexual
relation
Opposite sex
• Son attracted
• Their mothers
• Daughter attracted
• Their fathers
Psychological Element.
Sigmund Freud
Conscious
Unconscious
Oedipus
complex
Beckground : Oedipus complex • Greek mythological character
Oedipus.• Unwittingly kills his father..
Laius• Marries his mother..Jocasta.• A play based on the myth.
Oedipus Rex• Was written by Sophocles..
In Mourning Becomes Electra.. Where..
Mr. O’Neill’s interpretation of Freud’s theory of psychoanalysis is a totally disaster.
Ezra and Orin are away..
As a turning point in the development of the Oedipus and Electra complex.
" “I loved [Orin]”, Christine says, "until he let you and your father nag him into the war, in spite of my begging him not leave me alone".
• Christine ( Mother )
• Orin ( Son )
• Lavinia(Daughter)
•Her Father
Conclusion
• According to Freud..
" The mind could be considered to consist of three systems, the Conscious,the Preconscious and the Unconscious”..
