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What is the character of Lavinia?
Lavinia is Ezra’s wooden, stiff-shouldered, flat-chested, thin, and angular daughter. She is garbed in the black of mourning. Her militaristic bearing, a mark of her identification with her father, symbolizes her role as a functionary of the Mannon clan or, to use Christine’s terms, as their sentry.
WHO proposes to kill Ezra in Mourning Becomes Electra?
Christine agrees to Lavinia’s terms. Later she proposes to Brant that they poison Ezra and attribute his death to his heart trouble. One week later, Lavinia stands stiffly at the top of the front stairs with Christine.
Who is Ezra Mannon?
As his homophonic name suggests, he is Agamemnon’s counterpart, the great general returned from war to be murdered by his wife and her lover. Here, as throughout the trilogy, Ezra is dressed in his judge’s robes and appears as a symbol of the law. …
What is Mourning Becomes Electra based on?
Inspired by the “Oresteia” trilogy by Aeschylus, Mourning Becomes Electra sets the tragic action in 1865 Massachusetts, with Russell cast as Lavinia, a Civil War-era Electra.
What do Chiron and Demetrius do to Lavinia?
Demetrius and Chiron are Tamora’s wicked sons. They kill Bassianus and then viciously rape and mutilate Lavinia in the woods after Aaron and Tamora encourage them to do so.
What happened to Lavinia?
Lavinia. The only daughter of Titus Andronicus, she spurns Saturninus’s offer to make her his empress because she is in love with Bassianus. She is brutally raped and disfigured by Chiron and Demetrius in the forest during the hunt.
What were Ezra Mannon’s last words?
Indeed, Ezra’s last words are, “She’s guilty!” Ezra, the former judge, is pronouncing his verdict. He may realize that, in telling this to Lavinia, who is so devoted to him, he is pronouncing a sentence as well.
What is the first play of the trilogy Mourning Becomes Electra?
O’Neill’s Mourning Becomes Electra is a trilogy consisting of “Homecoming,” “The Hunted,” and “The Haunted.” The first one is a play in five acts, while the second and the third are in five acts and four acts respectively. The action of the plays is set in 1865-1866.
What does Lavinia use to tell everyone she was raped?
Philomel eventually identifies her attacker by stitching his name on a sampler. While Lavinia can’t use her hands to stitch the names of Chiron and Demetrius, she does find a kind of voice when she uses her stumps to flip through the pages of Ovid’s story, signaling to her family that, like Philomel, she was raped.
Who is Marcus Andronicus?
Marcus Andronicus is a Tribune of the People, Publius’s father, and Titus’s younger brother, the political face of the powerful Andronicus family. He announces and approves the nomination of his brother as Emperor, but accepts it when Titus chooses not to take the opportunity.
What does Christine give Ezra when he begs for his medicine?
Ezra is shocked. He calls her a whore and threatens her, then starts having heart pains. He tells Christine to give him his medicine. She pretends to but instead gives him a pellet from a small box.
How does Lavinia prove to Orin that their mother has committed adultery?
How does Lavinia prove to Orin that Christine was guilty of poisoning Ezra? She puts the poison on Ezra’s body and they follow Christine to Adam Brant’s ship.