Реферат: Beyond The Horizon And Diff

flaw, an overweening pride.” In essence Emma cannot live with Caleb and cannot

live without him. Rob is Emma’s opposite, because he does not need another

person to make him happy, he only needs to be free, to go where he wishes.

However, even he does not realize it till the end.

For each of the characters, tragedy results, because they did not follow

their destinies. Ruth because of her haste in deciding to marry Rob, has grown

to hate him. She realizes that she never loved him and wishes Andy would come

home and save her from her prison of a marriage. “Ruth Mayo, having married the

wrong Mayo brother… must see her marriage fall apart, along with the farm.

Her consolation is that the absent Andy still loves her and he will be a final

refuge for her.” Andy does not give Ruth the response she desires and she

becomes more bitter and cold as the years pass. Rob, because of Ruth’s

treatment of him, has grown depressed and no longer dreams. He realizes what he

has been deprived of and thinks he still has a chance to reclaim it. Rob was a

failure as a farmer, just as Andy predicted. “Farming ain’t in your nature…

as a place to work and grow things, you hate it.” (Horizon, 84) His true nature

tried to lead him down the right path, but he refused it. Rob’s life could

never work out as long as he is trapped behind the hills surrounding his farm.

“For Robert Mayo the hills surrounding the Mayo farm are a physical symptom of

the restrictions, the limitedness and the monotony of farm life.” The

restrictions slowly suffocate him and eventually destroy his imagination, so he

can even no longer dream of a happier life. Andy’s punishment, is that he is

never truly happy. He spent eight years running from who he is and where he

belongs.

“Andrew, who has changed during the eight or so years of the play’s

action from a healthy young farmer into a tense, hard, even ruthless–and

unsuccessful-speculator, is the greatest failure of all, for he has spent eight

years running away from himself and has been changed from creator to parasite.”

This is Andrew’s sad fate, which is intensified when Ruth admits she loves