Eugene ONeill

A detailed Summary of Eugene ONeill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill's life is reflected throughout his plays in order to let out his true feelings. Eugene O'Neill was born in October on the 16, 1888. He was born in New York City, New York, in a hotel on forty-third and Broadway. For the first seven years of his life, he traveled with his parents. James O'Neill, his father, was among the top actors of his time and his mother, Ellen Quinlan, did not work, she only followed James from stage to stage. They traveled with the famous melodrama, The Count of Monte Cristo, which his father acted in. Right from the start, O'Neill was growing up with plays all around him (143).

Eugene's early education came from different Catholic schools. From 1895-1900, he attended St. Aloysius Academy for boys in Riverdale, New York, and from 1900-1902 he went to De La Salle Institute in New York. After the De La Salle Institute, he attended a preparatory school, Betts Academy in Stanford, Connecticut. From 1906-1907, he attended Princeton. After a year, he was kicked out for breaking a window in a stationmaster's house.

Throughout these years of education his home life, or life on the road, wasn't very good. According to George H. Jensen in the Dictionary of Literary

Having grown up with The Count of Monte Cristo, O'Neill had little choice but to began by writing melodramas. In the early twentieth century, theatrical experiments in Europe were not easily transplanted to America. The unavoidable model, then was the melodrama, in which plot was more important that the characterization. O'Neill eventually broke from the

, Eugene's home life was crucial to the plays that he wrote. Filled with guilt, betrayal, and accusations, it is, sometimes hard to see and sometimes

Throughout the rest of his life as a writer, he was acknowledged for many writings. He has won the Pulitzer Prize four times, for Beyond the Horizon, Anna Christine, Strange Interlude, and last for Long Day's Journey into Night. He has also won many other awards. His biggest achievement was the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. However, his best play was never really noticed by the public until after his death, Long Day's Journey into Night. Eugene Gladstone O'Neill died in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1957.

In the first plays, O'Neill has the plot and the action much more significant than his characters. Later on in his writing career he began to make the characters a lot more important than the plot, especially when he writes about his life as he did in Long Days Journey into Night (154).

While Eugene was living at home, there were many other things going wrong that showed up in Long Day's Journey into Night. One of the events was the relationship of his mother and father. Throughout his life, they fought

A month after his son was born he became a seaman on the Charles Racine, a Norwegian ship. After working for a while, in 1911 he returned to New York. Kathleen and Eugene divorced because Kathleen didn't like Eugene always being away. He

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