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Escapism in Eugene O’Neill’s Long day's Journey into Night Haqi Ismaiel, Safaa; Salim Hammoudi, Zeena; Raheem Rahman Jaf, Susan
ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 7 No. 1 (2024): MARCH
Publisher : Hasanuddin University

Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.34050/elsjish.v7i1.33077

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Long day's Journey into Night (Pulitzer Prize 1957) was Eugene O’Neill’s greatest autobiographical play in which he skillfully conveys through the members of his family a painful realistic portrait that reveals the strained familial relationships he experienced with his family during his youth. The play represents a day in the life of the Tyrones, which begins at 8:30 in the morning on James Tyrone's (the father) farm in August 1912 and ends in the last hours of the same day. It is a metaphorical, psychological, gradual, desperate journey that all the Tyrones take into the night (towards their personal problems) to explore the uttermost depth of familial relationship through their mutual accusations and blaming each other until they are separated by the darkness of their problems which isolate them from each other urging them to escape from their miserable and tragic reality by taking drugs, drinking and prostitutes. Escapism is one of the main themes of the play that is seen and justified by the depression, hostility and tension experienced by the four characters of the Tyrones family. They are unable to face their life's problems and they only get blame and mutual accusations from each other without the expected family attention and sympathy among them. The paper is an attempt to investigate the different motivations of the Tyrones for escaping from their bitter reality and the means used to do so.
Perspective of Death and war in Rupert Brooke’s poem “The Soldier” and Randall Jarrell’s poem “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner” Haqi Ismaiel, Safaa
ELS Journal on Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities Vol. 8 No. 4 (2025): DECEMBER
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Show Abstract | Download Original | Original Source | Check in Google Scholar | DOI: 10.34050/els-jish.v8i4.42987

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The current paper attempted to convey the complex selves of the well-known war poets Rupert Brook and Randall Jarrell during and after World Wars I and II. Randall Jarrell was able to express the bitter reality of the war because he participated in the World War II. He witnessed the horror and the destruction which included the deaths of his fellow soldiers, as a result he wrote poems that was brutal and full of ferocious imagery. In his poems, Jarrell presents the horrors of war focusing on the idea of death in it. According to Rupert Brooke, going to war is a noble endeavor and a chance to demonstrate one's patriotism and strength of character. With the outbreak of the World War I Brook was deeply patriotic encouraging the young men to join in what he considered to be a noble fight. Thus he focused on the idea of death and patriotism. The soldiers that Brooke depicts are patriotic to their country; they are ready to sacrifice their life in order to defend their homelands.