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ANNA CHRISTIE, BY EUGENE O’NEILL, 1921

1. Discuss the character of Anna. What is she like? Is she a dynamic character? Does she evolve? Justify your answer. She is a dynamic character, because she changes at the course of the play. At the beginning, she has to stick to societies’ values and hide her past. But as the plays goes deep, we see how she confront her reality and accept her past. Although, she ends were she basically begins, she has changed, she sees life differently. She is more empowered, because she does not try to hide her past, if you don’t like, it is your problem, nor mine. She demands some respect. 2. How many elements of Realism can you find in Anna Christie? The setting, as they are ordinary ones. (the saloon of a barkeep named Johnny the Priest, a farm in Minnesota, the barge…) The behavior of Matt as O´Neil wants to portray how men of that time were. ( He has very traditional attitudes about women and their place in society, but he loves Anna enough to accept her past. Unlike Chris, Mat believes that his destiny is shaped by his own strength and courage, coupled with the will of God) Believable settings, and characters. A protagonist that is fighting a bigger force, a force of nature, a force of destiny. Vernacular dialogue that makes the character more realistic. The fate is driving by the psychology of the characters, not the plot.

3. Before Anna Christie, O’Neill wrote two other versions of the play. Name them and briefly explain how are they different. Dat Ole Devil Sea: this one was published and staged. It is very similar to the original, but the end Is more hopeful. Strengthened the character of Anna and reworked the plot to focus on her. Chris: more unhappy. O´Neil revised it radically, changing the barge captain´s daughter Anna from a pure woman needing to be protected into a prostitute who finds love from live on the sea. Anna´s father dominated this version. Anna/Mat: minor roles. 4. Anna Christie makes frequent use of lengthy and detailed stage directions. Why? You need them because It wouldn’t be natural having people telling monologues about their feelings and their thoughts. So stage directions help the characterizations of these characters. 5. Comment on the importance of Fate in the play.

We find it from the beginning of the play. Larry tells Chris that Anna will end up marrying a sailor, and in the end she will marry Mat. Cosmic and dramatic irony in the play. Ana´s fate is inevitable. There is a mysterious force that is going to have in way. When Anna is left in the farm what happens is even worse 6. Discuss the sea and the fog as symbols in the play. The sea represents fate, it is its physical representation. The force that shapes the life of Anna, Chris and Matt. The fog is the representation of the unknown. You don’t what is going to happen, what is going in with life. The sea may be consider as fate, or luck, implying that the sea has control over their lives. For example, Christian considers the sea as a malevolent and destructive force. Christian believes that the sea made him take bad decisions, and leaving his wife unattended in Sweden. Christian wants to protect her daughter of the sea at any cost, from life itself. Using the sea as an excuse, Christian tries at any cost to stop her daughter to have any relation with it. He tried to stop her from marrying Mat, because he belongs to the sea. Christian is constantly of life, sea, probably dealing with pessimism. However, Anna discovers how her ancestor do not belong inland, which is why she believes she has suffer, the sea is her home. The sea has brought her happiness and love, from her father and Mat. Anna as a Viking loves the sea, and would follow her destiny marrying a sailor. Anna follows this destiny not because she was forced, but because the sea cured her soul. An emotionally charged reunion with her father, a captain of a coal barge, intensifies when a merchant sailor is pulled from the cold, dark waters of the Atlantic on a foggy night. When the fog clears, Anna, the sailor and her father are caught in a riveting struggle between love and the sea, changing their lives forever.

7. What biblical themes can we find in Anna Christie? Marie Magdalene. Anna is that stereotypical character. She is a trope ( a convention). A prostitute that is saved by love. 8. Comment on the importance of this fragment: ANNA: […] Here’s to the sea, no matter what! Be a game sport and drink to that! Come on! [She gulps down her glass. Burke banishes his superstitious premonitions with a defiant jerk of his head, grins up at her, and drninks to her toast.]

This fragment takes place in the Act Iv, at the end of the play, conversation between

Anna, Burke and Chris. She has accepted that not matter what she does, life will find its way. Then, enjoy the moment right now and whatever it has to come, let it come.

9. Discuss the ending of the play. Could it be considered a happy ending? Justify your answer.

It is not a happy ending for readers, but for Anna it could a happy ending as she is where she is supposed to be. However, it can change at any given moment. She promises to abandon prostitution and Mat forgives her. Chris and Mat have both signed to work aboard a ship that is leaving for south Africa next day. They promise to return to Anna after the voyage.

10. Compare the characters of Anna Christie and Frank Ware (A Man’s World). How are they similar? How are they different? Both are female that are fighting against something that is bigger than them, Anna has to fight against her fate, whereas Frank is fighting against society. Frank is also resigned at the end as she cannot marry as she has decided to take care of that child and not marry a man who does not considered women as equals. They are different in the sense that when a complicated situation comes, Frank decides in which way the terrible decision is going to suck; whereas Anna is more conformist, if something wrong comes okay. Agency: ability of character of make decisions and change the plot....