O'Neill and the Impossibility of Faith
In Eugene O'Neill's less successful plays, religion and man's* cosmic place are discussed by his characters in long discursive speeches and with brutally overt symbols to imbue with significance the frequently melodramatic action. In later, more critically acclaimed plays O'Neill...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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University of Saskatchewan
[2003]
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Journal of religion and popular culture
Year: 2003, Volume: 3, Issue: 1 |
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| Summary: | In Eugene O'Neill's less successful plays, religion and man's* cosmic place are discussed by his characters in long discursive speeches and with brutally overt symbols to imbue with significance the frequently melodramatic action. In later, more critically acclaimed plays O'Neill's skepticism and criticism of are presented more philosophically, and the symbols and images are much more subtle. Whether overt or subtle, O'Neill's treatment of religion is always pessimistic: in the face of the cosmos, man is finite; all his faiths and systems and religions are in response to that sense of finitude, and flawed by their origin in that finitude. |
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| ISSN: | 1703-289X |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of religion and popular culture
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3138/jrpc.3.1.001 |