Tragic flaws in Eugene O'Neill's play "Long Day's Journey into Night"

S Chitra¹

¹Karpagam Institute of Technology

Abstract

This paper titled Tragic flaws in Eugene O'Neill's play "Long Days Journey into Night" deals with the tragic flaws of Characters. This play seems to be intended to identify the most with Edmund. Because Eugene has represented himself as Edmund. The tone of the play toward the other characters is quite a forgiving, which is consistent with Edmund's overall disposition. This comparison makes a lot of sense, when we think about the fact that Edmund is O'Neill's fictional recreation of himself. This play is not a fairytale or an imaginative story. It is Eugene O'Neill's autobiographical play. It has autobiographical element that shows the problems are really faced by common people in the society. The problems which are highlighted through their tragic flaws are very common in all the societies. Each of the Tyrones has at least one tragic flaw with which they're slowly destroying themselves. James is miserly and an alcoholic, Jamie is a gambler and an alcoholic, Edmund has consumption and is an alcoholic, and Mary is addicted to morphine. All these tragic flaws are dealt with the problems of modern society.

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S Chitra. "Tragic flaws in Eugene O'Neill's play "Long Day's Journey into Night"" International Conference on Systems, Science, Control, Communication, Engineering and Technology (2016): 684-686. Print.