this presentation is a part of my academic activity in department of English MKBU

1. Name: Sagar B. Vaghela
Roll No: 32
Enrollment No: 20691084201852
Paper No: 10 The American Literature
Topic: Electra complex and Oedipus complex
in Mourning Becomes Electra.
Batch: 2017-19
Email Id: sagarvaghela2020@gmail.com
Submitted To: S.B.Gardi Department of English
MKBU

2.  Eugene O’Neill born in 16 october 1888 in New york.
 He was an American play wright and Nobel
laureate in literature.
☆ His famous works:
□ Now I Ask You (1916)
□ Gold (1920)
□ The First Man (1922)
□ The Hairy Ape (1922)
□ Dynamo (1929)
□ Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)

3.  Mourning Becomes Electra is a play cycle written by American play wright
Eugene O’Neill.
 Mourning Becomes Electra published in 1931
 Mourning Become Electra divided into three parts
(1) Homecoming
(2) The Hunted
(3) The Haunted
☆ Main characters of the play
● Lavinia Mannon
● Christine Mannon
● Ezra Mannon
● Captain Adam Brant
●Captain Peter Niles

4. The Electra complex is a psychoanalytic term used to
describe a girl's sense of competition with her mother for
the affections of her father.

5. The electra complex shows the sexual desire between the
daughter and the father.
Lavinia represents as Electra complex in this play
Lavinia loves her father Ezra Mannon.

6.  The Oedipus complex is a term used by Sigmund Freud in his theory of
psychosexual stages of devlopment to describe a boy’s feeling of desire
for his mother and jealously and anger towards his father.
 A boy feels like he is a competition with his father for possession of his
mother.
- He views his father as a rival for her attentions and affections.

7.  The Oedipus complex shows the sexual desire between the son and
the mother.
 Orin represents as Oedipus complex in the play.
 Orin loves his mother christine.
 While away his father at war, Orin dreams of his mother.
 The wish to possess mother and the acting out of the father’s
murderer give orin the classical oedipal symptoms.