Forces that they cannot understand or conquer drive O'Neill's characters. In the milieu of theater, the playwright brings these themes to their extremes. On symbolic and literal levels, these three plays expose the instincts and learned behaviors of humans and how they affect us in our search for a "spiritual place."
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Mourning becomes electra is well known as a modernization of the Greek myth of the Oresteria. Perhaps the difference between Aeschylus and O'neill is to some degree a measure of the extent to which the weakening of the sanctions has weakend the emotions with they supported.
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