Oedipus Complex in Mourning Becomes Electra

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”..