Self-Psychology in Eugene O'Neill'sMourning Becomes Electra

Abstract

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.