Mourning Becomes Electra
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| How is Ezra Mannon received by Christine and Lavinia when he returns to the Mannon house in the Homecoming? | show 🗑
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| show | New England
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| Orin says that he’ll give Vinnie what he has written on one condition. What is that condition? | show 🗑
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| How does the death of Christine differ from that of Clytemnestra in Aeschylus’ Choephori? | show 🗑
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| Who condemns Vinnie to a life of mourning and solitude in the final act of The Haunted? | show 🗑
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| How can we interpret certainly O’Neill’s intentions for composing a dramatic trilogy that approached themes and topics similar to Aeschylus’ Oresteia? | show 🗑
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| show | The Mannon mansion
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| show | bound
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| show | The Electra Complex (Freud?)
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| How does Lavinia prove to Orin that Christine was guilty of poisoning Ezra? | show 🗑
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| show | Christine
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| show | Ezra Mannon
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| show | Captain Adam Brant
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| show | Orin
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| Who represents Electra? | show 🗑
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| Who represents Pylades? | show 🗑
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| Who represents Chrysothemis? | show 🗑
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| Who represents Thyestes? | show 🗑
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| show | Abe Mannon, Ezra’s father
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| Who represents the chorus of elders from the Agamemnon? | show 🗑
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| When Ezra Mannon returns home in The Homecoming, where is he coming from? | show 🗑
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| show | after the death of Aegisthus
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| show | There was a sick dog aboard his ship
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| When Orin shoots Adam Brant, Adam appears to Orin to be which of the following characters? | show 🗑
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| show | Portraits of the Mannon ancestors.
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| show | In black funeral attire
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| show | The Furies are replaced by the portraits of the Mannon ancestors and Orin’s guilt
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| show | Brigadier General
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| By what name does Vinnie accidentally call Peter in “The Haunted” when she is begging him to marry her immediately? | show 🗑
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| show | She looks like Christine and wears green. She also is no longer flat chested and skinny, her form has filled out making her look far more attractive.
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| What is the historical context (setting) of “Mourning Becomes Electra”? | show 🗑
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| Some critics see the lilac, a particularly recurrent flower in Mourning Becomes Electra, as a symbolic remembrance of what? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following are obvious differences between Orin and Orestes? | show 🗑
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| show | Ezra Mannon
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| show | She got Brant to buy it for her.
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| Marie Brantôme bore an illegitimate child — later changed his name to Adam Brant — after an affair with which member of the Mannon family? | show 🗑
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| show | They tear it up and throw the valuables overboard to make it look like it was a robbery.
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| show | Secret looking; mask-like face.
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| What is the relationship between Seth and the Mannons? | show 🗑
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| show | The portraits of the members of the Mannon family
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| show | He gives explict stage directions and character descriptions.
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| How does Christine Mannon kill Ezra Mannon? | show 🗑
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| show | The box of poison used to kill Ezra.
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| Which of the following did Orin say after he killed Adam Brant about what he would have done for his mother? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following describes Lavinia and Christine’s relationship as evidenced by the scene of Ezra Mannon’s return? | show 🗑
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| What is the only reprieve granted Orin in The Haunted? | show 🗑
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| show | The chorus of the elders of Argos.
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| show | Train
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| What is found on the wall of Ezra Mannon’s study which constantly haunts the family members? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following describes Christine’s reason(s) for her resentment of Ezra Mannon? | show 🗑
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| Whose name does Orin call when he’s injured in the war? | show 🗑
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| Which of the following describes Orin’s initial reaction to the death of his father? | show 🗑
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| Which response best describes the significance of Orin’s head wound? | show 🗑
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| show | Her father pg. 273
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| Who reveals to Lavinia the truth about Captain Brant’s parents? | show 🗑
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| show | She shoots herself.
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| What is the name of Adam Brant’s ship? | show 🗑
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| What location, across the sea, serves as an escape for the characters in this play? | show 🗑
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| What was the name of the ship on which Christine and Captain Brant planned to sail away? | show 🗑
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| To whom does Captain Brant say “Good bye. You’re right, I wasn’t man enough for you”? | show 🗑
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| show | Ezra’s study
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| Whom do Orin and Lavinia hope will be blamed for Brant’s death? | show 🗑
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| Orin does not actually kill his mother, so why does he feel guilty for her murder? | show 🗑
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| As Orin is secretly listening to Christine talk with Brant on the ship, why does her talking about escaping to the “Blessed Islands” further enrage him? | show 🗑
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| Why did Brant believe the sea and Flying Trades did not want him anymore after the death of Mannon? | show 🗑
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| show | “She’s guilty--not medicine.” (page 316)
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| What does Christine want to do with Adam Brant when Orin returns home from the war? | show 🗑
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| show | Homecoming, The Hunted, The Haunted
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| What is the name of the woman with whom David Mannon ran off? | show 🗑
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| In The Haunting the islands are referenced again, but his time whose islands are they? | show 🗑
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| What was Orin’s excuse for leaving Vinnie and Peter? | show 🗑
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| show | Christine
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| show | His father's and then his own.
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| Whom does Orin kill first? | show 🗑
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| Who is the first character to die? | show 🗑
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| show | “She’s guilty--not medicine.” to Lavinia (page 316)
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| show | While in mourning Electra’s changes from a flat chested, skinny girl to having more of a womanly shape and she changes as well in that she wants love now. She is more gracious as a woman of this time should be.
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| show | O’Neill’s addition to the story, then, will be the punishment of Electra who “has too much tragic fate within her soul” to be allowed to slip from heroic legend into “undramatic married banality.”
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| What is Captain Brant’s familial relationship to Orin and Vinnie? | show 🗑
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| What is Christine’s motive for murdering her husband? | show 🗑
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| How does Vinnie know her father didn’t die of natural death but was murdered? | show 🗑
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| show | She had Adam Brant buy poison and when Ezra heart was hurting he asked for her to give him his medicine but instead she gave him the poison which killed him.
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| show | Ezra had a history of heart trouble.
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| show | New York -following her mother pg. 285
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| show | Cousin?
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| show | They are secretive and mask-like.
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| Who is blamed for sending Orin to war? | show 🗑
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| What event/dialogue changes Vinnie’s mind about marrying Peter at the end of The Haunted? | show 🗑
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| Why did Lavinia’s grandfather, Abe Mannon, tear down the house and build a new one? | show 🗑
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| show | It is her punishment.
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| Whose role has Lavinia taken over during the majority of the play “The Haunted”? | show 🗑
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| show | Christine’s was self-inflicted suicide while Clytemnestra’s was murder by her son.
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| What color does Vinnie “steal” from Christine after she is dead? | show 🗑
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| Why does Lavinia start wearing a green dress in place of her normal black one? | show 🗑
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| After Orin kills Captain Brant, what does Orin express while he looks at Brant’s lifeless face? | show 🗑
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| How does Lavinia change after the suicide of her mother? | show 🗑
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| How do Lavinia and Orin make Captain Brant’s murder look like an accident? | show 🗑
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| Which repeated character that appears in each play could be Eugene O’Neill’s chorus? | show 🗑
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| In what way is Electra’s role different in O’Neill’s version of the Orestes story? | show 🗑
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| Why does Lavinia (according to herself) wear black in the The Homecoming and The Hunted? | show 🗑
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| show | The poison is on Ezra's body.
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| What did Orin give Hazel that caused Lavina overpowering distress? | show 🗑
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| show | He shoots himself while “cleaning his gun”
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| What happens to Lavinia in the end? | show 🗑
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| show | Lavinia
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| What is Orin’s final opinion of his mother? | show 🗑
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