Eugene O’Neill AND “The Hairy Ape”

Eugene O’Neill was the first American dramatist to regard the stage as a literary
medium and the first US. playwright to receive the Nobel Prize for Literature.

1. Read about O’Neill’s life and work (Read from Eugene_O_Neill-pdf)

2. Read about the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize (Read from Pulitzer Prize and
Nobel Prize.docx) NOTE Two other writers you have recently studied also were also
Pulitzer and Nobel winners: TS. Eliot was awarded the Nobel for poetry 1948 and
Ernest Hemingway for fiction in 1954- Many more writers in subsequent lessons are
winners of these awards.

3. Read “The Hairy Ape” from 8 scenes

-Scene I – http://www.bartleby-corn/230/11-html

-Scene II – http-JMwwbartIebycom/QSO/I 2.html

-Scene III – http://www-bartleby-corrV230/13-html

-Scene IV – http://www-bartleby-corn/230/14-html

-Scene V – htth/www-bartleby.corn/230/15.html

-Scene VI – http://www-bartleby-corn/230/16-html

-Scene VII – http-J/www.bartleby.com/230/17.html

-Scene VIII – htth/www-bartleby-corn/230/18-html

Answer the following questions in a minimum of 3 sentences-

1. Why does Yank say, “she done me doit?”2. Describe the relationship between Mildred and her aunt.

3. Why do Yank and Long 90 to Fifth Avenue on Sunday morning?

4. What does Yank do to get arrested?

5. How do the guards in the prison subdue Yank?

6. What do we learn about Yank’s family and childhood?

7. Why does Yank say he is better than Mildred?

8. Describe work in the stokehole-

9. Describe Yank’s death

10. Find a picture of Rodin’s “The Thinker“ and explain why it is used in the play
11. Yank says repeatedly ‘I belong-‘ What does he mean?