Full summary of "Desire Under the Elms"
Title: Full summary of "Desire Under the Elms"
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 1927 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Full summary of "Desire Under the Elms"
Category: /Literature/Biographies
Details: Words: 1927 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
Characters:
Ephraim Cabot- Father/man of the house, about 75 yrs old
Simeon - Cabot's son, 39 yrs old
Peter - Cabot's son, Simeon's brother, 37 yrs old
Eben - Cabot's son, Simeon's and Peter's half-brother, the youngest, 25 yrs old
Abbie Puntman - Cabot's new bride in Scene Four, about 35 yrs old.
Setting:
Place - New England in and immediately outside the Cabot farmhouse, where two large elm trees "hang" over the house
Year- 1850s
Part One:
Scene 1:
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Eben say '"'I love you'"' as they leave. As in the beginning, Eben notes how pretty the sunset looks.
-the play ends w/ the sheriff commenting '"''"' It"'"s a jim-dandy farm, no dnyin"'" it. Wished I owned it!'"'.
Desire Under the Elms (1925) alludes to themes of Greek mythology and uses New England farm life as the setting for a tragic tale involving adultery, incest, and infanticide