Psychological Study of ' Lavinia' character in" Mourning become Electra".
1. Name: Gohel Ankita Kishorbhai
Semester: 3
Roll No: 12
Topic: Psychological study of the character
“ Lavinia ” in Mourning become Electra.
Paper: 11( The American Literature).
Email id: ak.gohel4433@gmail.com
Submitted by: Smt. Submitted by: Smt. S. B
bhavanagar University
Department of English.
2. About author
• Eugene O’Neill was born
on 16th October 1888 and
died on 27th November
1953.
• He won the Nobel Prize in
literature in 1936 and
Pulitzer Prize for Drama in
1920, 1922, 1928 and 1957.
3. Psychology is the scientific study of the mind
and behavior.
Psychology is a multifaceted discipline and
includes many sub-fields of study
such areas as human development, sports,
health, clinical, social behavior and cognitive
processes.
What is Psychology
4. Lavinia’s psychology - Electra complex
The Electra complex shows the sexual desire
between the daughter and father.
The Electra complex is closely based on the
Greek myth of Orestes - especially on the Aeschylus
trilogy Oresteia.
In this play we see that Lavinia has excessive love
towards her father.
6. CHRISTINE: What are you moon gazing at? Puritan
maidens shouldn't peer too inquisitively into Spring!
Isn't beauty an abomination and love a vile thing?
Why don't you marry Peter? You don't want to be left
an old maid, do you?
LAVINIA: You needn't hope to get rid of me that way.
I'm not marrying anyone. I've got my duty to Father.
(Homecoming, Act 3)
7. Here we can say that the lavinia’s character
gives a hit of Electra complex.
She wants take revenge of her father because
she may be killed her father or she wants to
marry of her father.
This play give some glimpse about psychology
of lavinia character.
Lavinia’s Psychology
9. Conclusion
We see many writer they not represent the both
of complex like Electra and Oedipus complex
but in this play the both of complex vary well
categories by the writer and the writer is vary
well explain the psychological behavior of the
character.
