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Mans Struggles of Fate by the Curse of Birth in Eugene ONeills A pertinacious daylights move around into shadow Eugene ONeills A Long Days excursion into Night deals with tragedy and its attendant focus on character kind of than plot. Another emphasis on the play is on the retiring(a) that ceases to holiday resort his characters. ONeills characters of A Long Days Journey into Night grapple with the ancient. These characters all seem to agree with Mary Tyrone who claims that a person cant help being what the knightly do him (Baym 1313). The fact that a character can struggle with his or her past suggests that the past is something open to question, changeable, and perhaps even unknowable. Patricia Schroeder says The past as it invades the leave or as individual characters interpret it had little currency on the formally realistic stage (Schroeder 30). ONeills characters of A Long Days Journey into Night reveal the ongoing past gradually and continuously through and throughout the play. As one reads the play, he or she can see ONeill deal with his let past through these characters. For Eugene ONeill, there is only one real subject for frolic The subject here is the same ancient one that eer and always will be the one subject for drama, and that is mans struggle with his own fate. The struggle used to be with the gods, but it is now with himself, his own past. Implicit in this statement are a number of ONeills fundamental principles in this play and his own life. ONeill embeds principles of classical tragedy within a naturalistic play and so in full realizes his lifelong goal of dramatizing man and this struggle with himself, his own past (Schroeder 30). In this play it is, indeed, the struggle to understand the formative past that s... ...less present of the Tyrones. ONeill not only challenged the distinction between the past and present, he similarly broke down the barrier between stage and spectator that had been erected alon g with the proscenium arch. The mans struggle with self, fate and the past is a common theme among many modernist writers. Through ONeills experimentation of eliciting an emotional response through his realistic settings and characters, we learn much about the common man. We all struggle with our pasts and our place in this world. At least through works like A Long Days Journey into Night we know that we are not only if in having a dysfunctional family with problems and conflicts. We all have problems, struggles and fears. These elements are average a part of life. Life is taking our past and learning from it so that we can live our present and prepare for a future.