1. Disintegration the Family in Desire Under the Elms
He is part of this society and he lives the experience, therefore "the playwright of family life have digested the experience; have made sense out of it for the world of the play."11 In this respect, dramatists such as Eugene O'Neill, Arthur Miller, and Tennessee Williams exposed the raw tensions of the American family, and confronted problems of the lost individual in an industrial and mechanized society through statements of psychological and spiritual displacements, loss of connections, loneliness and self-deception. ... The power of their plays comes from the industry of thi...
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