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?Long Day?s Journey Into Night?, 2002.
Examines the imagery of fog in Eugene O'Neill's play.
2,293 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 6 sources, APA, £ 48.95
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In the play ?A Long Day?s Journey Into Night,? Eugene O?Neill uses fog imagery to suggest that motivations and secret (offstage) lives of each character is partially obscured because each character refuses to really see or hear the others? stories. The paper shows that this refusal to pay attention symbolizes the repeated blame, contempt and self-deception each character practices to deny his or her own complicity in the failure of his or her dreams. Fog is an apt metaphor for this family trait because through fog one can see the general shapes or outlines of things, but the details and the substance of things is mostly hidden. In the paper, the themes of inability to empathize and blame are also explored to varying degrees in O?Neill?s plays ?Desire Under the Elms? and ?Strange Interlude?, but arguably the literary techniques employed by O?Neill in ?Long Day?s Journey? more effectively exploit the dramatic tension these themes create.
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"By Act III, fog has rolled in and a foghorn sounds offstage. In response to Mary?s complaint about the foghorn, Cathleen agrees that it sounds like a ?banshee.? (98). The Oxford English Dictionary defines a banshee is a supernatural being supposed by Irish peasantry to wail under the windows of a house where ?one of the inmates is about to die.? With the metaphorical equation of foghorn (which is heard off-stage) and banshee, O?Neill foreshadows the literal death by consumption of Edmund and probably of Mary?s whose morphine addiction returns by the end of the day. Both of these deaths will occur offstage, somewhere outside the scope of the play."
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Eugene O'Neil's "Long Day's Journey into Night", 2006.
This paper reviews Eugene O'Neil's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" and the use of denial by the main characters.
1,884 words (approx. 7.5 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 41.95
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This review of Eugene O'Neil's "Long Day's Journey Into Night", describes how the characters use denial as a temporary escape from their problems. Whether it be denying personal qualities, such as stinginess, a bad decision, or an unhealthy addiction, their denial only makes their problems worse. O'Neill uses the Tyrone family and their denial to show how avoiding issues is not going to solve or make them disappear. Though denial may be a temporary escape from a problem, in the long run it is futile.
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"It is common knowledge that "The first step to recovery is admitting you have a problem." Unfortunately, in Eugene O'Neill's "Long Day's Journey Into Night", many of the characters find the first step to be the hardest. Instead of facing reality, James Tyrone, Edmund, Jamie, and Mary continue to deny their problems in hopes that they will go away. Each of the characters uses denial as a temporary escape from their problems and the reality of the world rather than facing their problems and solving them."
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"Long Day's Journey Into Night", 2002.
A review of the play "Long Day's Journey Into Night", by Eugene O'Neill.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, £ 18.95
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A critical and analytical essay on the play "Long Day's Journey Into Night", written by one of the most esteemed American playwrights, Eugene O'Neill.
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Mary's Isolation in "Long Day's Journey Into Night", 2007.
This paper discusses the issue of the isolation of the character Mary, in the play 'Long Day's Journey into Night' by Eugene O'Neill.
2,312 words (approx. 9.2 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 49.95
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In this article, the writer discusses that all the characters of the play 'Long Day's Journey into Night' are trapped by their family history and their inability to break out of the family cyclical arguments, however, no one is more trapped than Mary. The writer suggests that
it seems possible that Mary was always lonely. The writer discusses that as a child she may have structured her world around the idea of being a nun because of a guaranteed community, but even in a convent, Mary would have had to know how to connect with others. Further, the writer notes that at every turn she has made choices that isolate herself. Mary chose a stand-offish man for a husband, and has made choices throughout her adult life that have kept her lonely.
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"One soon finds out that Mary has significant problems. When the play opens, she has very recently returned home from a sanatorium where she was treated for addiction to morphine. As the day goes on in the play, it becomes apparent that Mary has returned to taking morphine, and quite a lot of it. Mary has an excuse for her addiction: her husband was too cheap to pay for a good doctor after her second son was born, and that doctor got her addicted. Mary may have started with morphine to ease the pain of childbirth and its aftermath, but now it is apparent that she uses it as an escape from reality. Her need to escape is so great that she is in complete denial about her son Edmund's case of tuberculosis -- even though her father, whom she loved dearly, died of tuberculosis himself."
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Eugene O'Neil's "Long Day's Journey Into Night", 2002.
Discusses how Eugene O'Neil uses Freud's theory of the unconscious in the dialogue of his story "Long Day's Journey Into Night".
2,400 words (approx. 9.6 pages), 5 sources, £ 61.95
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This essay discusses how Eugene O'Neil's "Long Day's Journey Into Night" uses the Freudian theory of the unconscious in the stream-of-consciousness dialogue. The play is about a dysfunctional family, whose summer on the shore is filled with abuse of alcohol and drug addiction. Yet the family is in severe denial about this abuse. In this context, we see Freud's theme of how the unconscious operates.
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?A Long Day?s Journey into Night?, 2005.
Examines the compassion conveyed in this play by Eugene O'Neil.
1,283 words (approx. 5.1 pages), 3 sources, MLA, £ 30.95
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This paper discusses the play by American playwright, Eugene O'Neil "Long Day's Journey into Night." The paper focuses on how O'Neil encompasses themes of family love and compassion in this autobiographical play.
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"This connection through denial, love, and addiction is also seen between mother and sons. At one point, Mary is seen, like Jamie, refilling the liquor bottle with water to keep the level the same. The family 'trick' keeps up appearances for both characters. This sameness in protective mechanisms of addiction seems both touching as well as tragic-both child and mother protecting one another from one another's knowledge, through the same 'hiding' behavior, as if heredity creates both the hideous and debilitating nature addiction and the protective, loving mechanism to cover up the addiction from the family."
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"Long Day's Journey into Night", 2005.
Review and analysis of Eugene O'Neill's famous work from the perspective of several literary critics.
2,563 words (approx. 10.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, £ 53.95
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This paper analyzes O'Neill's work and how he tried, by incorporating aspects of everyday life into his writings, to describe the longing and tragedy that is inherently part of the human psyche. The paper looks at how "Long Day's Journey into Night" is a an example of how O'Neill incorporated his own life experiences into his writing in an effort to portray this aspect of life and then looks at how various literary critics have supported or refuted these ideas.
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"Winther (1961), one of O?Neill?s earlier critics, suggests that O?Neill deals with tragedy from a universally appealing standpoint. O?Neill according to Winther, deals with the fall of man from prosperity into adversity in a manner ?that is shocking and through causes that lie within man himself in relation to the outward forces o his world? (298). In Long Day?s Journey into Night, O?Neill displays man as brought to disaster by ?forces that are stronger than he is? (298). Mary for example, in his work Long Day?s Journey into Night, struggles for years in a state of inescapable despair. In the work Mary is struggling to conquer forces of life she has no control over. Winther (1961) points out that each character has its flaw or failure, and is also a combination of his inner self and the circumstances of a world that is uncontrollable."
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"Long Day's Journey Into Night" by Eugene O'Neill and "The Sound and The Fury" by William Faulkner, 1994.
A description of the portrayals of moral decline of families in the play and the novel.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 4 sources, £ 43.95
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"The decline of the family is a primary theme in both Eugene O'Neill's drama Long Day's Journey into Night and William Faulkner's novel The Sound and the Fury, and in each case the theme is linked to a general decline in society at large. For Faulkner, this decline is inextricably linked with the fact of slavery in the South and its aftermath, while for O'Neill the decline is bound with the failure of the Irish-Catholicism of New England. The Compson family was once a proud and patrician southern landholding family which has deteriorated now into madness, moral decay, and greed, while the Tyrone family similarly exhibits the worst of modern civilization. In both stories, money has become the new god of society, to the detriment of the ties of family.
In the beginning of Long Day's Journey into Night, we find..."
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"Long Day's Journey", 2002.
A review of the connection between Eugene O'Neill and his character James Tyrone from his play "Long Day's Journey".
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 5 sources, £ 24.95
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This paper examines the relationship between Eugene O'Neill and James Tyrone, his character in the play, Long Day's Journey. It contends that there is a direct connection between O'Neill and Tyrone. It looks closely at the conflicts within the Tyrone family and within O'Neill's own family.
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Long-Term Day Care and Children, 2004.
A look at the effects of long-term day care setting on children.
868 words (approx. 3.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, £ 20.95
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This paper examines the issue of how day care settings affect a child?s development has been studied by many child experts and psychologists. It looks at how diverse factors, such as the amount of time a child stays at day care, the behavioral tendencies of a child, the child?s bonding with his parents, and the social and environment adaptation capability of a child, are being used as measures in examining whether or not day care causes negative effects to children. Research and studies on the effects of long-term day care still need to consider factors, such as the hereditary genes and the natural behavior of a child. Such factors, if applied, may provide more reliable results in determining whether negative behaviors of a child are actually caused by his long-term attendance in day care.
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"The emotional and psychological aspects of children are the critical issues in the effects of daycare, especially on those who attended long-term daycare at an age earlier than 5. Researches have shown that these factors in a child?s development are weakened by lack of attachment and bonding from a primary environment that must consists of parents and family. The article Daycare describes two studies conducted by Janice Wallerstien (1995) and Karl Zinmeister (1998). Both studies indicate that even daycares with high quality of service are unable to provide the necessary attachment needed by a child in his childhood."
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Gaines' "A Long Day in November", 2006.
A literary analysis of "A Long Day in November" by Ernest Gaines.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 3 sources, £ 24.95
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This paper critiques Ernest Gaines' "A Long Day in November" and draws on several other reviews to depict the work of this important American writer. The story itself is a simple one-telling the tale of a young boy coming of age in rural Louisiana. The paper discusses how it is in the details of the characters interaction and in the language and humor that they use, that the story comes alive.
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"In his short story titled "A Long Day in November," published in Bloodlines, Ernest Gaines describes a critical day in the life of a young African American male in rural Louisiana. Beginning the story in the early morning hours, Gaines depicts the boy cocooned in his covers as his mother tries to wake him to tell they will be leaving his absent father the next morning. The boy tries to rouse himself out of sleep, to ask his mother why she is crying, but he cannot quite bring himself to understand the situation or to get her to respond. Later, the father returns home and the young boy witnesses the ensuing argument between mother and father, which revolves around the father being out late because his car broke down. "
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"Journey to the End of the Night" by Louis-Ferdinand Celine, 1994.
An examination of the physical and spiritual journey of the character of Bardamu as an individualist fleeing war, social conformity and American capitalism.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, £ 38.95
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"The character of Bardamu in Celine's novel Journey to the End of the Night takes a spiritual journey in the course of the novel, and the title indicates the direction in which this journey is directed. In the context of the novel, the author holds civilization in a variety of manifestations up to scrutiny and finds it rotten to the core. His hero lives in a world that is itself insane, and when he ends in an asylum, it is truly that--an asylum protecting him from the insane world on the outside, a world far more insane than anything found on the inside. Different aspects of Western civilization are represented in the novel, and in each the author shows through Bardamu's experiences how corrupt the system is at heart and how necessary it is to flee from it. The values held up as vital and paramount by the system are values the author does not prize and..."
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?A Midsummer Night?s Dream?, 2002.
A look at the themes of lunacy, love, and poetry in William Shakespeare?s ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream? .
1,090 words (approx. 4.4 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 26.95
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This paper examines how William Shakespeare?s play, ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream?, is full of memorable characters and how they exhibit, among other things, lunacy, lovesickness, and poetry. It analyzes the characters of Bottom, Helena, and Puck, and how they contribute to the play. It demonstrates how Bottom is portrayed as a hilarious lunatic, Helena as a fool in love, and Puck as a mischievous poet.
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"Helena proves to be the most loving character in the play. She is in love with Demetrius and there is absolutely nothing that will change her mind. She demonstrates strength of character that can only be achieved through the emotion of love. Whether or not this is wise, is another question. Regardless, she illustrates the power of love and how love is one human emotion that is very difficult to control. For example, she is aware that he loves someone else, but yet she still professes her love to him. This is amazing considering the fact that he is sometimes cruel to her. For instance, when he tells her that he is ?sick when I do look on thee? (II.i.213), she simply responds that she is ?sick when I look not on you? (II.i.214). She illustrates how we can hear the most hurtful thing from the one we love and not be moved away from our affection."
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Puck of ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream?, 2002.
This paper discusses the character ?Puck? in Shakespeare?s ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream.?
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 5 sources, APA, £ 35.95
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This paper examines the Shakespearean character ?Puck? in the play ? A Midsummer Night?s Dream.? It describes him as the head fairy and protagonist in the play and the reason this play is so magical. The paper describes the use of language in order to set apart the fairies from the ?mortals?.
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"'Spirits and fairies cannot be represented, they cannot even be painted, -- they can only be believed'" (Bloom 87). This could be the opening line of Shakespeare?s ?A Midsummer Night?s Dream,? for as we watch the play unfold, we are taken out of the world of today, and into a magical world full of romance, magic, and farce, and Puck is a major player in the story that unfolds."
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