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Ezra Mannon

Mourning Becomes Electra

Eugene O'Neill

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Character
Gender
Male
Playing Age
Adult, Mature Adult
Style
Dramatic
Act/Scene
Act Three
Time & Place
Mannon home, April 1865
Length
Medium
Time Period
Contemporary
Show Type
Play
Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)

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MANNON--(avoiding her glance--insistently) Shut your eyes again. Listen and you'll know. (She shuts her eyes. He plods on with a note of desperation in his voice.) I thought about my life--lying awake nights--and about your life.

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End:

You'll find I have changed, Christine. I'm sick of death! I want life! Maybe you could love me now! (in a note of final desperate pleading) I've got to make you love me!

Full text of monologue available at: O’Neill, Eugene. Mourning Becomes Electra: Homecoming. 1931. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400141h.html#p02

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https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/o/oneill/eugene/o5m/index.html

http://www.eoneill.com/library/contour/historian/electra.htm

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400141h.html

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