Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, the autobiographical play, Long Day's Journey into Night, is regarded as Eugene O'Neill's finest pieces of work. The play focuses on the Tyrone's, a family that O'Neill describes as very happy once upon a time, filled with love and hope for the future, but have since spiraled into a highly dysfunctional family. Mahatma Gandhi, infamously known for inspiring movements for civil rights and freedom world wide, once proclaimed, "Your beliefs become your thoughts, your thoughts become your words, your words become your habits, your habits become your values, your values become your destiny," and this could not be truer for the Tyrone family. The members of the Tyrone family are consumed with past memories, negative thoughts, and constant reminders of events that have become their daily habits. The family is filled with misery and bitterness, lacking accountability, and almost always deflecting the blame elsewhere. Mary Tyrone tries to deny that any problems exist, but ironically, the wife, mother, and addict is the root of the family problems. If you dig deep enough, you'll find dirt- the dirt being Mary Tyrone. .
The Tyrone's issues have grown larger and much deeper over time, much like the soul of the speaker in Langston Hughes's poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers, "My soul has grown deep like the rivers." Instead of uniting as a family in order to productively face their problems and treat the illnesses that have consumed them, they revert to covering the pain up with a Band-Aid. In Mary's case that Band-Aid is known as Morphine. Constantly reminded of the troubles of her recent past combined with family problems that surround, Mary selfishly chooses to detach herself from the current reality with the aid of morphine. As the wife of James Tyrone and the mother of Jamie and Edmund Tyrone, this is the most devastating, self-centered decision she could make for her family.
Your journey began expecting a new life, instead you receive promised death. Soon the artificial song lulls me into a trance. ... I knew the fasted route, even knew how long the commute would take. ... This night, a night I should be commemorating, has left me paralyzed. ... How am I to determine such a blurred concept? ...
The instructions were very specific and it was clear that they took all of the stipulations into account when preparing for the Passover. ... The people were to wear their traveling clothes while eating their feast and were to be prepared for the journey. ... The celebration is to last seven days. ... Consequences for disobeying this rule at any time during those seven days were severe. ... Another important concept is regarding the slaughtering of the animals for the Passover. ...
In South East Asia, in order to attain adulthood, males had to be temporarily initiated into the order (Eliade 347). ... On the full moon night of December, people bring bowls made of leaves carrying flowers, candles, and incense and float them in the water (Festivals). ... Another common Thai festival is Songkran, which goes on for several days in April (Festivals). ... They also sprinkle perfumed water on monks and novices for at least a few days (Festivals). ... Uposatha celebrates every change in the moon's phase: the new moon, the full moon, and the quarter moon days (Festivals)....
Seconds must tick into minutes; minutes must form hours and become days; days must trudge on into months and years; and so on throughout the millennia. ... Both authors utilize time as an abstract concept, changing it, warping it into their metaphysical realms. ... "Time IS constant," you may think, "Seconds always tick into minutes, hours, days, months, and years. Day always leads to night." ... Albert before their meeting that night. ...
John Rivers and Rochester A man's love for a woman can go a long way. ... Jane sees little of Rochester during his first days at Thornfield. ... When there conversation was finally over, it turns to the concepts of sin, forgiveness, and "redemption- (Rigby 1). ... Good-night, my -" (Bronte 205). ... During her journey she meets a new man who goes by the name of St. ...
After reading It's Not About the Bike, My Journey Back To Life, by Lance Armstrong, I realized that it's not about the bike, as the title of the book states. ... From this passage, Lance acknowledges that he waited too long to go to a doctor. ... But as I sat in my house alone that first night, it was humbling to be so scared. ... I hoped hard, I wished hard, but I didn't pray If there was indeed a God at the end of my days, I hoped he didn't say, "But you were never a Christian, so you"re going the other way from heaven." ... Beyond that We are so much stronger th...
First is Thomas Jefferson's view as the early American coming into the Indians native land. ... He had been associated with them during his boyhood in Albemarle County and his college days in Williamsburg. He had heard his father's tales of journeys into the wilderness and his interactions with the Indians, but no Native Americans roamed the forest near Jefferson's boyhood home. ... "Aboriginal Homeric concepts of human behavior had early become real and concrete to him in the simple dignity of American Indians." ... He was to observe this race as a philosopher and to inquire in...
For one night we were one, united by the defeat of a common enemy. This description of the build up to, and the spontaneous celebration that ensued after Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's capture, was the cathartic culmination of an angst- and grief-ridden ten days that played out following the first major terror event on U.S. soil since the beginning of America's proclaimed "war on terror" in the wake of 9/11. ... Yet placed in the context of the ideology of America's "war on terror", they appear to support the concept of what has been termed "American exceptionali...
With the physical creation of earth, mankind, and gods came the abstract concepts of law, religion, ethics, and kingship. ... As long as the body was preserved, the ka and ba would live. ... Once in the tomb it was believed that the akh began its journey to the hall of judgment. ... By counting the number of days until the Dog Star again rose at dawn, they worked out a calendar of 365 days. ... They also divided day and night into 12 parts, hours to us, and they created shadow clocks that marked the time by the shadow cast by an upright arm onto a horizontal arm, and water clocks. ...