Long Day's Journey - Significance of Fog

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English

 

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Joseph C

 

Date added:

December 18, 2012

 

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University

 

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A

 

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Fog is a recurring metaphor in the play; it is a physical presence even before it becomes a crucial symbol of the family's impenetrable confusion. It is referred to in the text as well as stage directions in this play. It sets the mood for the play in all its somber hues. He uses the fog outside the house as an atmospheric element that has an ominous presence throughout this play...
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His parents and the surroundings that he grew up in were tainted by broken dreams, lies, disease, past issues, alcoholism and drug addiction. There was this web of darkness and fogginess that encased his life and past that is portrayed in this play as well as others by O'Neill. The symbolic implications of fog in the play are descriptive of the struggle in the minds of this deeply conflicted family...
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