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Anger In Long Day's Journey Into Night

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A Look into Eugene O’Neill’s Inimitable View of Anger in Long Day’s Journey into Night “Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.” Never was Mark Twain mistaken when he truthfully coined these words, for how many times has one witnessed some people being destroyed by their own anger rather than anything else? And how many times being angry in a certain situation was not necessary, but still it was the prevailing emotion? Yet, how many times has one come across those who get angry, but eventually they were able to master this intriguing emotion and channel it into what could be for their own benefit? Last but not least, do people know what anger truly mean, and whether it could be …show more content…

In addition, the paper shall exhibit the possibly worthy side of anger in bettering the self and the society if one counter-exploits and preserves his/her integrity. Long Day’s Journey into Night is written in the style of a semi-autobiography, which in one way or another is central to anger as the theme of this paper. All the characters in this play resemble O’Neill’s real family member. His father, along with his elder brother, is a heavy alcoholic in the same way James Tyrone and Jamie are. His mother used to be similar to Mary Tyrone, a morphine addict. The only adaptation that O’Neill has included is that he had a younger brother named Edmund who in reality died in infancy but is made to come to life in this play to personify O’Neill himself, and with O’Neill giving his name to the deceased child in the

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