O samotności i miłości… w Pożądaniu w cieniu wiązów Eugene’a O’Neilla
About Loneliness and Love in Desire Under the Elms by Eugene O’Neill

Author(s): Agnieszka Woźniakowska
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: Eugene O’Neill; Erich Fromm; American drama; Desire Under the Elms; love
Summary/Abstract: The authoress of this article has attempted to read the play by an Americanplaywright Eugene O’Neill in the light of the concept of love as proposed by Erich Frommin 1956. This German philosopher argued that the only way to escape loneliness, a feelingto which everybody is doomed, is to unite oneself with another person in love.In a popular publication, titled The Art of Loving, Fromm describes various forms of love;Desire Under the Elms – a play written more than three decades before Fromm’s publication– seems to illustrate these philosophical considerations. Such a view on O’Neill’s workallows to notice its human dimension, and perceive its protagonists as an embodimentof the universal human condition.

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