Mourning Becomes Electra: Themes, Motifs, and Symbols Quiz: Quick Quiz

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Who famously elaborated a theory of "Oedipal" desire?

Eugene O'Neill
Carl Jung
Friedrich Nietzsche
Sigmund Freud

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Where does O'Neill situate the agency that drives the plot of the plays?

With individual characters
With fate
With warring Greek gods
With socio-historical forces

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What is the main object of mourning in the trilogy?

The decaying family house
Orin's unrequited love
Ezra Mannon's death
The Blessed Islands

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What two themes are entwined in the fantasies that characters have about the Blessed Island natives?

Exile and return
Empathy and compassion
Love and hatred
Race and sex

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___ evokes the lifelike masks that the repressed Mannons wear.

Ezra's headstone
The Mannon house
The old oak tree
The old wagon

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Themes, Motifs, and Symbols Quiz

1 of 5
Who famously elaborated a theory of "Oedipal" desire?

2 of 5
Where does O'Neill situate the agency that drives the plot of the plays?

3 of 5
What is the main object of mourning in the trilogy?

4 of 5
What two themes are entwined in the fantasies that characters have about the Blessed Island natives?

5 of 5
___ evokes the lifelike masks that the repressed Mannons wear.

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1 of 5 Who famously elaborated a theory of "Oedipal" desire?

2 of 5 Where does O'Neill situate the agency that drives the plot of the plays?

3 of 5 What is the main object of mourning in the trilogy?

4 of 5 What two themes are entwined in the fantasies that characters have about the Blessed Island natives?

5 of 5 ___ evokes the lifelike masks that the repressed Mannons wear.

Popular pages: Mourning Becomes Electra

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Review Quiz FURTHER STUDY

Take a Study Break

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55 Movie Adaptations of Classic Novels, Ranked

1 of 5
Who famously elaborated a theory of "Oedipal" desire?

2 of 5
Where does O'Neill situate the agency that drives the plot of the plays?

3 of 5
What is the main object of mourning in the trilogy?

4 of 5
What two themes are entwined in the fantasies that characters have about the Blessed Island natives?

5 of 5
___ evokes the lifelike masks that the repressed Mannons wear.