Eugene Gladstone O'Neill(1888-1953) was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity.
In Long Day's J...
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill(1888-1953) was one of the greatest playwrights in American history. Through his experimental and emotionally probing dramas, he addressed the difficulties of human society with a deep psychological complexity.
In Long Day's Journey into Night, widely regarded as his last and greatest true masterpiece, Eugene O'Neill gambles with his skill as an objective playwright by drawing potentially explosive material from his own life.
Long Day's Journey into Night is describing the painful conflicts among the four members of the Tyrone family in the family. In this work deals with the serious personal issues of four family members as they unsuccessfully grapple with their individual failings and collective deterioration. Although external agents have introduced corruption into the Tyrone family, O'Neill uses his characters to show that withholding mutual support and efforts to understand one another in times of crisis brings sorrow and further familial decay. Although they sincerely love each other, the characters in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night isolate themselves from each other and the reality of their problems, and consequently they are unable to counter the corrupting influence of their personal demons.
In this play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood, O'Neill surely came to understand his own family better, and by basing the play on his own life, O'Neill ensures that the story does not end with the fall of the curtain, and there is hope that the long night will not last forever.