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Days Journey Into Night The first 200 words of this essay...
Explore the significance of the past in the play "Long Day's
Journey Into Night" by Eugene O'Neill At the very start of Long
Day's Journey Into Night, O'Neill sets the scene for the theme
of the past being integral to the play directly with the
dedication to the love and tenderness of his wife - "... which
gave me the faith in love that enabled me to face my dead at
last and write this play - write it with deep pity and
understanding and forgiveness for all of the four haunted
Tyrones." This admittance that the play was written as a sort of
autobiography, a partial re- telling of O'Neill's personal
history, means that it seems almost intrinsically connected to
the past right from the beginning, the intimation from the
author being that he wrote it as a form of catharsis in order to
deal with the real events from his own lif