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The Oresteia
Islands
Islands represent the Mannons’ exoticization and discrimination against anything they see as foreign—a set of beliefs that eventually forces the family to isolate itself from the rest of the world. Ship captain Adam Brant…
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Masks
Masks symbolize the Mannon family’s tendency to keep secrets and betray one another. All of the central figures in Mourning Becomes Electra are described as having a “mask-like” disposition, a description that implicitly links the…
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