logging in or signing up Eugene O'Neill Bio SWVega Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: Embed: Flash iPad Dynamic Copy Does not support media & animations Automatically changes to Flash or non-Flash embed WordPress Embed Customize Embed URL: Copy Thumbnail: Copy The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 344 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: October 19, 2009 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 1 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Eugene O’Neill : Fall 2009, English 12LAW David Vega, MA English Eugene O’Neill Nobel Prize for Literature 1936 Family - Parents : Family - Parents Father = James O’Neill Famous touring actor - The Count of Monte Cristo Strict Catholic Mother = Ella O’Neill Followed husband around country Pious mystic Drug addict Family - Brother : Family - Brother Brother - James O’Neill Dies of alcoholism in adulthood Birth and Youth : Birth and Youth Born in hotel Spent early childhood in hotel rooms, trains and backstage Hated difficult touring life Educational Life Experiences : Educational Life Experiences Boarding schools Summers spent in New London, Connecticut Princeton University - 1 yr (dropped out) 6 years at sea (his “real” education) Seaports: Buenos Aires, Liverpool, New York City Became alcoholic Attempted suicide at 24 Works as reporter and poet Contracts tuberculosis Finally experiences “rebirth” - quits drinking Relationships : Relationships 3 wives (2 divorces) Elder son (w/1st wife) commits suicide at age 40 Younger son (w/2nd wife) becomes emotionally unstable Only daughter (w/2nd wife) becomes estranged when she marries Charlie Chaplin at age 18 O’Neill disowns her. Controversial Plays : Controversial Plays Prostitutes Derelicts Lonely sailors God’s injustice to man Literary Influences : Literary Influences Greek tragedy and themes Infanticide Incest Fateful retribution Psychology Personal unconscious (Freud) Collective Unconscious (Jung) Art German Expressionism Pulitzer Prizes : Pulitzer Prizes Anna Christie Strange Interlude Long Day’s Journey into Night Beyond the Horizon Nobel Prize for Literature (1936) : Nobel Prize for Literature (1936) 1st and only American playwright to win Considered “Father of American Drama” 1st American dramatist to consider the stage as a literary medium. You do not have the permission to view this presentation. In order to view it, please contact the author of the presentation.
Eugene O'Neill Bio SWVega Download Post to : URL : Related Presentations : Share Add to Flag Embed Email Send to Blogs and Networks Add to Channel Uploaded from authorPOINT lite Insert YouTube videos in PowerPont slides with aS Desktop Copy embed code: Embed: Flash iPad Dynamic Copy Does not support media & animations Automatically changes to Flash or non-Flash embed WordPress Embed Customize Embed URL: Copy Thumbnail: Copy The presentation is successfully added In Your Favorites. Views: 344 Category: Education License: All Rights Reserved Like it (0) Dislike it (0) Added: October 19, 2009 This Presentation is Public Favorites: 1 Presentation Description No description available. Comments Posting comment... Premium member Presentation Transcript Eugene O’Neill : Fall 2009, English 12LAW David Vega, MA English Eugene O’Neill Nobel Prize for Literature 1936 Family - Parents : Family - Parents Father = James O’Neill Famous touring actor - The Count of Monte Cristo Strict Catholic Mother = Ella O’Neill Followed husband around country Pious mystic Drug addict Family - Brother : Family - Brother Brother - James O’Neill Dies of alcoholism in adulthood Birth and Youth : Birth and Youth Born in hotel Spent early childhood in hotel rooms, trains and backstage Hated difficult touring life Educational Life Experiences : Educational Life Experiences Boarding schools Summers spent in New London, Connecticut Princeton University - 1 yr (dropped out) 6 years at sea (his “real” education) Seaports: Buenos Aires, Liverpool, New York City Became alcoholic Attempted suicide at 24 Works as reporter and poet Contracts tuberculosis Finally experiences “rebirth” - quits drinking Relationships : Relationships 3 wives (2 divorces) Elder son (w/1st wife) commits suicide at age 40 Younger son (w/2nd wife) becomes emotionally unstable Only daughter (w/2nd wife) becomes estranged when she marries Charlie Chaplin at age 18 O’Neill disowns her. Controversial Plays : Controversial Plays Prostitutes Derelicts Lonely sailors God’s injustice to man Literary Influences : Literary Influences Greek tragedy and themes Infanticide Incest Fateful retribution Psychology Personal unconscious (Freud) Collective Unconscious (Jung) Art German Expressionism Pulitzer Prizes : Pulitzer Prizes Anna Christie Strange Interlude Long Day’s Journey into Night Beyond the Horizon Nobel Prize for Literature (1936) : Nobel Prize for Literature (1936) 1st and only American playwright to win Considered “Father of American Drama” 1st American dramatist to consider the stage as a literary medium.