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Peter Niles
Hazel Niles is Peter Niles’s sister and Orin Mannon’s love interest. Due to her friendly demeanor and her youthful naivete, Hazel is often held up by both Orin and Christine as a model of the innocence many of the other characters no longer possess. Orin even affectionately compares Hazel to the “lost island” he so idealizes. Though Hazel and Lavinia have a close friendship at the beginning of the trilogy, by the end of The Haunted, Hazel suspects Lavinia of foul play in Orin’s death. Indeed, it is Hazel’s anger—pleading with Lavinia that “in your heart you can’t be dead to all honor and justice”—that ultimately convinces Lavinia to look inward and punish herself, rather than continuing to repeat the Mannon family’s endless cycle of cruelty and harm.
Hazel Niles Quotes in Mourning Becomes Electra
The Mourning Becomes Electra quotes below are all either spoken by Hazel Niles or refer to Hazel Niles. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Hunted: Act 1
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CHRISTINE—Why can't all of us remain innocent and loving and trusting? But God won't leave us alone. He twists and wrings and tortures our lives with others’ lives until—we poison each other to death! (seeing Hazel’s look, catches herself—quickly) Don't mind what I said! Let's go in, shall we? I would rather wait for Orin inside [...]
ORIN—(as they enter looks eagerly toward the house—then with bitter hurt, disappointment in his tone) Where’s Mother? I thought surely she’d be waiting for me […] God, how I’ve dreamed of coming home! I thought it would never end, that we’d go on murdering and being murdered until no one was left alive! […] But the house looks different. Or is it something in me? […] Did the house always look so ghostly and dead?
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The Haunted: Act 3
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HAZEL—You don’t want her to marry Peter?
ORIN—No! She can’t have happiness! She’s got to be punished! (suddenly taking her hand—excitedly) And listen, Hazel! You mustn’t love me any more. The only love I can know now is the love of guilt for guilt which breeds more guilt—until you get so deep at the bottom of hell there is no lower you can sink and you rest there in peace!
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Hazel Niles Quotes in Mourning Becomes Electra
The Mourning Becomes Electra quotes below are all either spoken by Hazel Niles or refer to Hazel Niles. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
The Hunted: Act 1
Quotes
CHRISTINE—Why can't all of us remain innocent and loving and trusting? But God won't leave us alone. He twists and wrings and tortures our lives with others’ lives until—we poison each other to death! (seeing Hazel’s look, catches herself—quickly) Don't mind what I said! Let's go in, shall we? I would rather wait for Orin inside [...]
ORIN—(as they enter looks eagerly toward the house—then with bitter hurt, disappointment in his tone) Where’s Mother? I thought surely she’d be waiting for me […] God, how I’ve dreamed of coming home! I thought it would never end, that we’d go on murdering and being murdered until no one was left alive! […] But the house looks different. Or is it something in me? […] Did the house always look so ghostly and dead?
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The Haunted: Act 3
Quotes
HAZEL—You don’t want her to marry Peter?
ORIN—No! She can’t have happiness! She’s got to be punished! (suddenly taking her hand—excitedly) And listen, Hazel! You mustn’t love me any more. The only love I can know now is the love of guilt for guilt which breeds more guilt—until you get so deep at the bottom of hell there is no lower you can sink and you rest there in peace!
