Mourning Becomes Electra Quotes

“LAVINIA: He made me feel for the first time in my life that everything about love could be sweet and natural... I have a right to love!”
― Eugene O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra

“LAVINIA: I love everything that grows simply-- up toward the sun-- everything that's straight and strong! I hate what's warped and twists and eats into itself and dies for a lifetime in shadow...”
― Eugene O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra

“LAVINIA: I want to feel love! Love is all beautiful! I never used to know that! I was a fool! We'll be married soon... We'll make an island for ourselves on land and we'll have children and love them and teach them to love life so that they can never be possessed by hate and death!”
― Eugene O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra

“3. Here ‘the attraction of sexual intercourse between parents and child or grandchild as incest’, ‘Oedipus complex’ and ‘abnormal attachment of persons without power of resisting emotions called fixations’, stimulates characters to meet their tragic flaw.”
― Lecturer M k Bhutta

“Here ‘the attraction of sexual intercourse between parents and child or grandchild as incest’, ‘Oedipus complex’ and ‘abnormal attachment of persons without power of resisting emotions called fixations’, stimulates characters to meet their tragic flaw. Says Bhutta about European fault”
― Lecturer M k Bhutta