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’rent By Eugene O’Neill Essay, Research Paper

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 unknowingly

allowed Ruth to lead them down a path, they were not meant to travel. Emma is

the same as Rob and Andrew in this respect, because she let Caleb’s actions

control her ability to follow her dream. Rob is a dreamer. His only wish is to

go `beyond the horizon’ and discover the mystery of life. Andy, however, is

Rob’s opposite. Andrew is practical and down-to-earth. His deepest desire is

to spend his life farming. “One constructs the world out of fact, the other out

of pure imagination.” Rob’s quest 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

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