The Hairy Ape "- Eugene O'Neill
About Author:
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill foremost American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. O'Neil: Was a dramatist on life & philosophy and he Was an isolated person. All of O'Neill's plays are a personal point of view and reflect on the tragedy of the human condition. His plays deal with the American history and social movements.
The Hairy Ape:
The Hairy Ape is Expressionist drama 1922 by Eugene O'Neill and written when monopolies ruled and workers rights movements in their development stage. Still relevent though The play questioned class differences and social dominance in American society. The Hairy Ape it is Existentialism, and Marxism play that is talk about the struggle in the high class and working class.
Themes:
1) Exploit
2) Capitalist persecution of the working man
3) Industrialization causing humans to regress
This play follows the yank, a fireman on a transatlantic ocean liner, on his search for a sense of belonging to a world run by the upper class. The story of a 'yank', who works as a fire stoker, trying to find where he is in society It's an exploration of society and how it treats those people as uncivilized. They are the same nationalities that have seen the pentacles of human development.
Yank is the protagonist of the play who is portrayed as a British and laborer who searches for an understanding of a world controlled by the Nazareth Steel. The play is divided into eight scenes and there are many laborers like Yank in the play with some high class characters like Mildred Douglas, her mother, the secretary at I.W.W., A Gentle Man, Second Engineer, etc. Yank's fellow workers are Paddy, Long and other firemen. Yank mocks a fellow fireman when the fireman stands up to make a speech about how they are in a hell created by the upper class.
He leaves the ship and wanders in Manhattan, only to find he does not belong anywhere-the socialites on Fifth Avenue, nor the labor organizers on the waterfront Finally he is going to want to marry a woman and the animal's embrace in the gorilla in the zoo. So, Mildred calls yank a beast, and he spends the rest of the play trying to.
About Author:
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill foremost American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. O'Neil: Was a dramatist on life & philosophy and he Was an isolated person. All of O'Neill's plays are a personal point of view and reflect on the tragedy of the human condition. His plays deal with the American history and social movements.
The Hairy Ape:
The Hairy Ape is Expressionist drama 1922 by Eugene O'Neill and written when monopolies ruled and workers rights movements in their development stage. Still relevent though The play questioned class differences and social dominance in American society. The Hairy Ape it is Existentialism, and Marxism play that is talk about the struggle in the high class and working class.
Themes:
1) Exploit
2) Capitalist persecution of the working man
3) Industrialization causing humans to regress
This play follows the yank, a fireman on a transatlantic ocean liner, on his search for a sense of belonging to a world run by the upper class. The story of a 'yank', who works as a fire stoker, trying to find where he is in society It's an exploration of society and how it treats those people as uncivilized. They are the same nationalities that have seen the pentacles of human development.
Yank is the protagonist of the play who is portrayed as a British and laborer who searches for an understanding of a world controlled by the Nazareth Steel. The play is divided into eight scenes and there are many laborers like Yank in the play with some high class characters like Mildred Douglas, her mother, the secretary at I.W.W., A Gentle Man, Second Engineer, etc. Yank's fellow workers are Paddy, Long and other firemen. Yank mocks a fellow fireman when the fireman stands up to make a speech about how they are in a hell created by the upper class.
He leaves the ship and wanders in Manhattan, only to find he does not belong anywhere-the socialites on Fifth Avenue, nor the labor organizers on the waterfront Finally he is going to want to marry a woman and the animal's embrace in the gorilla in the zoo. So, Mildred calls yank a beast, and he spends the rest of the play trying to.
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