The Hairy Ape

  

The Hairy Ape 

                   - Eugene O’Neill

 

  

O’Neill was the first American playwright to receive the Nobel prize for literature. O’Neil plays are written from a personal point of view and reflect on the tragedy of human condition. His plays deal specifically with the American tragedy, rooted in American history and social movement.

 

 

 The worst condition of Yank, Paddy and other characters makes us as a reader sensitive towards them. And the way they are looked and treated by rich people/ owner of industries is terrible. Rich people's sophistication and mannerisms looks artificial and stupid. Actually they are responsible for poor condition of working class people.

Mildred Douglas considers herself as a waste product of her father's company. When she comes down & saw Yank, Paddy and other workers working, she fainted down. She calls Yank a Hairy Ape.

As the industrial environment is presented as dehumanizing, O'Neil presents, how the laborers also presents how humanity is subsiding in this materialistic era.

Yank has also been interpreted as representative of the human condition alienated from nature by his isolated consciousness unable to find belonging in any social group or environment.

O’Neill was the first American playwright to receive the Nobel prize for literature. O’Neil plays are written from a personal point of view and reflect on the tragedy of human condition. His plays deal specifically with the American tragedy, rooted in American history and social movement.

 

 

 The worst condition of Yank, Paddy and other characters makes us as a reader sensitive towards them. And the way they are looked and treated by rich people/ owner of industries is terrible. Rich people's sophistication and mannerisms looks artificial and stupid. Actually they are responsible for poor condition of working class people.

Mildred Douglas considers herself as a waste product of her father's company. When she comes down & saw Yank, Paddy and other workers working, she fainted down. She calls Yank a Hairy Ape.

As the industrial environment is presented as dehumanizing, O'Neil presents, how the laborers also presents how humanity is subsiding in this materialistic era.

Yank has also been interpreted as representative of the human condition alienated from nature by his isolated consciousness unable to find belonging in any social group or environment.