Hairy Ape

Hairy Ape

O'Neills Tremendous success as Dramatist . In this Drama Hairy Ape Yank the main character represents the working class in our capitalist society .

O' Neill was an extreme sociolist and believed that without working together we could not acieve sense of community.

Through the Hairy Ape he shaws us that our society should work togrther like a communist to avoid everyman for themselves

when Mildred a rich girl calls Yank a ' Filthy Beats ' she rejecting him because of fear and hate toward the working class

condition of a working class member of society without prestige or education .

This play concist message of ' Social Value'

In this play society is shown as a cruel world where the upper class mentality believes in fending for themselves while the working class is more inclined to share his wealth and lead a man

This life may not bridge classes but within it's class a purpose can lead many to live better lives and human regrassion by industrialization .

In other aspects in this play explores the place of human beings in the universe . In an increasingly dehumanized modern society ,the individual no longer is in harmony with nature. And Paddy speaks poetically about in the first scene about the days when ;

“A Ship was part of the sea ,and a man was part of ship ,and the sea joined all together and made it one”

The Hairy Ape draws a stark contrast between that idyllic past and the aliented present ,asking if modern individuals can find a home in mechanistic ,industrial society . O'Neill seems to reject this responsibility .

Yank animal Dramatized through his strenght and physical appearance is constrasted with the fragility of the would be social worker .

And character of Mildred makes a pitiful effort to reach out to those of a lower class but her ancentry has presented her weak and lethargic, and she is unable even to stay concious in Yank's presence .

The conflict between the individual and society is repeated in Yank's fifth avenue resistence with the unfeeling churchgoing marionettes ,who infuriate him with their materialistic delight in the monkey – fur their blindness to his existence . In his encounter with the wobblies ,

Yank continues his quest.