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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1199 words (4.8 pages) in the essay titled LDJIN It is understandable that so many people in our class did not find the last act of Eugene O Neill s Long Day s Journey Into Night a satisfying one; there is no tidy ending, no goodbye kisses or murder confessions; none of the charaters leave the stage with flowers in their hands or with smiles on their faces and none of the characters give explanatory monologues after the curtain falls, as we ve become accustomed to by reading so much Shakespeare. O Neill, though, isn t Shakespeare and Long Days Journey Into Night is as different from, say, A Midsummer s Night Dream or Twelfth Night than a pint of stout ale is from a glass of light chardonney. It is because of the uniqueness of the play that the final act is so fitting a conclusion, and it is because of the essence of the play that there is closure in the final scene and it is because of hte nature of hte play that the final act carries upon its shoulders as powerful an impact as any other ending put upon an American stage.The reason that many people did not find the end of hte play a real conclusion is because of the fact that Long Day s Jounrey Into Night is not a play of action, like almost all other plays are. It is set within a single room during the course of a single day, and it consists mainly of long monologue and bitter banter rather than movement or plot development, but there is a reason that O Neill does this; his play is not one where characters move from place to place and experience various dilemnas and... |
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