In the New Testament and in pagan texts, however, it is daimonia that enter into people causing illness (Luck 1985, 164). ... The New Testament authors used a new word to connote something different than daimon or daimonion because they were aware of the negative connotations already attached to these words. ... As in the Iranian battle between the ahuras and the daevas, the lesser divinities were relegated to the rank of daimones, which by this time meant lesser spirits who acted as intermediaries between humankind and the gods (or God). ...

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He simultaneously functioned as a social critic and moral guide as he believes that: The playwright must dig at the roots of sickness today as he feels it the death of the old God, the failure of science, and materialism to give any satisfying new one for the surviving primitive religious instinct to find meaning for life.17 It must be noted that the deepest emotional drive in O'Neill‟s plays is usually based on the father-son, father-daughter and mother-son relationship. To briefly consider O'Neill‟s concept towards paternal relationships, one can notice that the fathers, in hi...

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