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A Survey of American DramaQuestions Group B

1) Are the crippling sorrows of what Freud called family romances tragic or are they not primarily instances of strong pathos, reductive processes that cannot, by definition, manifest an authentic transfiguring nobility (Bloom 4).Think about it and argue your point. Do you think the play is a tragedy? What qualifies or disqualifies the play form belonging to the genre? Remember our definition of melodrama from an earlier session and think about whether Long Days Journey into Night also contains melodramatic elements?

2) The peace of the absolute can be bought only at the cost of blindness to the actual (Trilling 20). Do you agree with this statement about the play?

Works Cited

Bloom, Harold. Introduction. Blooms Modern Critical Views: Eugene ONeill. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 1-12.

Trilling, Lionel. Eugene ONeill. Blooms Modern Critical Views: Eugene ONeill. Ed. Harold Bloom. New York: Chelsea House, 1987. 13-20.