1. Name: Vora Hirva
The American Literature
Critical Analysis
Mourning Becomes Electra

2. The primary myth- Oedipus

3. (1)
The role of
Fate.
(2)
House- the
symbol of
repression.
(3)
It looks like
incongruous
white mask.
(4)
Whited
sepulcher.
The Mannon House and its History.

4. Legitimate
Dispossessed
Rivalries: Family splitted into two houses!

5. Racial Fantasy.
Incestuous relations.
mother-son relations.
Rivalries.
Brant’s admirations
for naked women.
A place- where love
takes place without
guilt and law.
Echoes of other
characters.
Peacefulness and
security from war.
Blessed Island!

6. Symbolic one.
Law of kinship and prohibiting incest
Lack of determination and management
Orin notes, ”Ezra is an statue of an
eminent dead man.’’
 Impropriety
 It functions as double against his alter
egos Brant and Orin
 Repetition of Sexual drama.
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Ezra Mannon’s Portrait

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Authority of Ezra
Cowardies of Brant
Appropriation of paternal authority in
Christine
Ezra’s secret
Each character jealously uses others’
passionate attachment to their
advantages.
Drawbacks!

8. Lavinia- one of the
most responsible
sinners
Archetype of Female
Treachery
Father paternal authority
Lavinia assumes her father
Ezra
Pre Oedipus complex
War as a symbol
Justice of revenge
Substitution

9. Thank you!