Ameerika kirjandus alates I maailmasõjast kuni tänapäevani.
Before that only novels and poems had been more or less serious. Soon he became completely
merged in modernist tendencies, he began experimenting with drama. First of all he decided
to get rid of typical melodramatic types-heroes, villains and so on. He got rid of them, brough
in a wide range of characters, new topics and styles. Each of his plays is explaration of human
condition. More importantly, he tries to study the subjective reality of the characters
coinsciousness. Not the reality of how the world is, but how the disturbed character feels.
Oneill uses repetitive movements, robotic, stacatto dialogue-short, abrupt, subjective
settings,that usually reflect nightmare or madness and a progression of stability to madness or
violence.character starts as a stable personality ja mida edasi seda segasemaks läheb. Play
ends with a shriek that signals the protagonist demise. Oneill was so serious about what he
was writing he produced only tragedys, 1 comedy
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