Electra complex and Oedipus complex in Mourning Becomes Electra

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1. Paper 10 Name: Sagar B. Vaghela Roll No: 32 Enrollment No: 20691084201852 Paper No: 10 The American Literature Topic: Electra complex and Oedipus complex in Mourning Becomes Electra. Batch: 2017-19 Email Id: [email protected] Submitted To: S.B.Gardi Department of English MKBU

2. Author’s background Eugene O’Neill born in 16 october 1888 in New york. He was an American play wright and Nobel laureate in literature. ☆ His famous works: □ Now I Ask You (1916) □ Gold (1920) □ The First Man (1922) □ The Hairy Ape (1922) □ Dynamo (1929) □ Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)

3. About the play Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American play wright Eugene O’Neill. Mourning Becomes Electra published in 1931 Mourning Become Electra divided into three parts Homecoming The Hunted The Haunted ☆ Main characters of the play ● Lavinia Mannon ● Christine Mannon ● Ezra Mannon ● Captain Adam Brant ●Captain Peter Niles

4. Electra complex The Electra complex is a psychoanalytic term used to describe a girl's sense of competition with her mother for the affections of her father.

5. Electra complex in mourning becomes electra The electra complex shows the sexual desire between the daughter and the father. Lavinia represents as Electra complex in this play Lavinia loves her father Ezra Mannon.

6. Oedipus complex The Oedipus complex is a term used by Sigmund Freud in his theory of psychosexual stages of devlopment to describe a boy’s feeling of desire for his mother and jealously and anger towards his father. A boy feels like he is a competition with his father for possession of his mother. - He views his father as a rival for her attentions and affections.

7. Oedipus complex in mourning becomes electra The Oedipus complex shows the sexual desire between the son and the mother. Orin represents as Oedipus complex in the play. Orin loves his mother christine. While away his father at war, Orin dreams of his mother. The wish to possess mother and the acting out of the father’s murderer give orin the classical oedipal symptoms.