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In the Zone & Ile

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THIS 54 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE The Great God Brown, The Fountain and The Moon of the Caribbees and Other Plays, by Eugene O'Neill. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1417903759.

56 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1917

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Eugene O'Neill

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American playwright Eugene Gladstone O'Neill authored Mourning Becomes Electra in 1931 among his works; he won the Nobel Prize of 1936 for literature, and people awarded him his fourth Pulitzer Prize for Long Day's Journey into Night , produced in 1956.

He won his Nobel Prize "for the power, honesty and deep-felt emotions of his dramatic works, which embody an original concept of tragedy." More than any other dramatist, O'Neill introduced the dramatic realism that Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg pioneered to Americans and first used true American vernacular in his speeches.

His plays involve characters, who, engaging in depraved behavior, inhabit the fringes of society, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill wrote Ah, Wilderness! , his only comedy: all his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism.

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مسرحية "في المنطقة" (In the Zone)

تدور أحداثها على متن سفينة تجارية أمريكية خلال الحرب العالمية الأولى، حيث يعيش البحارة تحت ضغط نفسي كبير بسبب وجودهم في منطقة خطر عرضة لهجوم الغواصات الألمانية. تتصاعد التوترات بين أفراد الطاقم عندما يبدأون في الشك في أحد البحارة، سوانسون، الذي يحمل حقيبة غامضة يرفض فتحها.

تصل الشكوك إلى ذروتها عندما يواجهه البحارة ويصرون على الكشف عن محتويات الحقيبة، معتقدين أنه قد يكون جاسوسًا.

مسرحية "آيل" (Ile)

تدور أحداثها على متن سفينة لصيد الحيتان عالقة في جليد القطب الشمالي، حيث يركز النص على الكابتن كيني، قائد السفينة المهووس بجمع حمولة كاملة من زيت الحيتان مهما كان الثمن. يعيش الطاقم حالة من التمرد بسبب الظروف القاسية، بينما تعاني زوجته، السيدة كيني، من الوحدة واليأس نتيجة العزلة والبيئة القاسية. تطلب منه العودة إلى الوطن، لكنه يرفض بسبب طموحه وإصراره على النجاح.
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