Beyond The Horizon And Diff'rent By Eugene O'Neill
In Beyond the Horizon and Diff'rent, Eugene O'Neill reveals that dreams
are necessary to sustain life. Through the use of the characters Robert Mayo,
Andrew Mayo, Ruth and Emma Crosby, O'Neill proves that without dreams, man could
not exist. Each of his characters are dependent on their dreams, as they feed
their destiny. When they deny their dreams, they deny their destiny, altering
their lives forever. O'Neill also points out, that following your dreams,
brings you true happiness, something all of his characters do not experience.
The characters of Rob, Andy and Emma are stripped of their dreams and
their destinies, by the ones who profess to love them. Rob and Andy ...
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is strange to Andy; it goes beyond anything he
can comprehend. Andrew, who is "A Mayo through and through." does not think in
the imaginative terms Rob does. "It's just beauty that's calling me-the beauty
of the far off and unknown...in quest of the secret which is hidden over there,
beyond the horizon." (Horizon, 85) Andy does understand, that his brother could
never be happy living on the farm, because his heart is elsewhere. Emma is like
Rob in a few ways. Both characters have idealistic views. Rob believes in the
secret beyond the horizon and Emma in Caleb's fidelity. Neither of them
consider the fact things may not be as they perceive them. For Emma, this
innocence is her undoing. Emma considers Caleb to be `diff'rent'. This
difference is what makes him special to her. She trusts he will always be this
way and that they will always have a future. "But you're diff'rent. You just
got to be diff'rent from the rest." Andrew is not like Rob or Emma. He is
always ...
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is a point that Andy is similar to
Emma, in the way that she reacted to someone else's actions. Caleb cheated on
her when he was away at sea. Emma being a highly moral person, cannot love him
the same way any more. "I can't Ma. It makes him another person--not Caleb,
but someone just like all the others." (Dif, 512) Emma made Caleb out to be the
perfect man and made him totally infallible in her eyes. She did not fall in
love with Caleb the person, but with Caleb the ideal, that never actually
existed. Many people try to save her from making the biggest mistake of her
life, like Rob tried to stop Andy, but to no avail. Emma remains firm in her
decision, despite her mother's ...
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