Self-Psychology in Eugene O'Neill'sMourning Becomes Electra
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The present thesis titled "Self-psychology in Eugene O'Neill's Mourning
Becomes Electra" covers the leading psychological problems of twentieth century
America. O'Neill has recorded in a powerful way the plight of men and women, and
their struggling with self-fragmentation, suicidal frustration, alienation, violence, and
addictive behaviours. O'Neill's characters are leading the life of unfulfilled desire and
fractured families. Their self-cohesion is assaulted by world wars, drastic distinction
between race and social class and weakening of supportive familial ties. Their
fractured and fragmented selves lead them to the state of destruction, where almost all
the characters are either killed, or committedsuicide or prisonedthemselves till death.