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In Long Day's Journey into Night, the is sue of border crossing and memories is of great magnitude. O'Neill's focus is evidently phenomenological as he posits perennial struggle and despair as the very essence of the human condition. The subjects aim at shattering the existential barrier, trying to console themselves with false slogans and dreams. Indeed, O'Neill's play evokes "a drama of souls, the adventures of "free wills," with the masks that govern them and constitute their fates" (Hinden 90). The real struggle is between Man's will and the power of fate, becoming an artifact, besides being a divine determination. O'Neill maps the Irish tragic memories in America, in the early twentieth century, highlighting the psycho logical, cultural and existential borders that the Tyrones could not cross. Here, the tragic matter intensifies not only because of the search for the construction of a new identity and subjectivity, but also because of nostalgia and new cross questions. Thus, Mary and James Tyrones , like O'Neill's parents, were haunted by memories, suffering from homesickness, disgrace and distress. Their journey from Ireland to America was a ferry crossing, entangling them in absurd circuits.
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