The Love of Eugene O’Neill
(The Love Story of Eugene O’Neill)
Eugene O’Neill
The Love of Eugene O’Neill
Eugene O’Neill was one of the great American dramatists of the 20th century. He had written a large number of one-act plays and some full-length plays. During his lifetime almost all his plays occupied the stage both in America and abroad and he became a household name as a great dramatist of the century. After the recognition of his greatness and popularity as a dramatist, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize three times. Till today he has been the only playwright of America who won the honourable Pulitzer Prize three times. Moreover, he won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1936.
The love of this great dramatist was a bitter one. His love for women was physical. He loved women only for physical need; because he had no time to develop his physical love into spiritual love, as most of his time and endeavour were spent after the experiment of dramatic form and style. Formally he went to the contract of three women whom he married one by one. But his married life proved to be an unhappy one like the married life of most artists of any time.
This great writer, Eugene O’Neill was born in a New York hotel in 1888. His father James O’Neill was one of the best-known American actors. As his father was an actor he had to wander from place to place performing plays. O’Neill often accompanied his father on his long-acting tours and thus he gathered practical experience in a dramatic performance. He took his school education at Belts Academy, Connecticut and at Princeton University. But his school career was not so satisfactory. After 1907 he took up a series of minor employment. In 1909 he met a girl, Kathleen Jenkins of New York and fell in love with her. She was a charming and amiable girl about eighteen. Their love deepened and one day they were married secretly. But the parents of Kathleen did not approve of the marriage and so they had to keep away from them, even from home. In the following year, a son was born to them. With the passing of days, O’Neill seemed to be indifferent to his wife Kathleen as he kept busy experimenting with playwriting arts. Eventually, a chasm between them raised and it broadened soon and divorce happened to Kathleen and O’Neill. Then O’Neill’s father James O’Neill sent him to Honduras on an expedition in search of gold. But the expedition proved futile. In 1910 O’Neill went back to New York and stayed for some days at a hotel called Jimmy, the Priest. There he suffered from loneliness and attempted to kill himself but fortunately, he could not die.
Then for some months he become an assistant manager at his father’s company and had a tour from St. Louis to Boston. After then he became an ordinary seaman on a British ship sailing to New York. After the tour, he went to New London to live with his parents. There he worked as a reporter and began to write plays and wrote out some significant plays including his masterpieces: “The Iceman Cometh” and “Long Day’s Journey into Night”.
In 1918 he fell in love with Agnes Bolton and married her instantly. After marriage, the couple lived for several summers at Peaked Hill near Provincetown. Mrs. Agnes O’Neill gave birth to two children to O’Neill. The marriage lasted for ten years. O’Neill always happened to live an outdoor life and much of his time was spent on writing for which his wife Agnes raised to grudge against O’Neill and as a result, they were separated in 1927 after a mutual agreement.
In 1929 Eugene O’Neill took up Carlotta Monterey as his third wife and accompanied her on many long journeys to Europe and Asia. After returning home he devoted himself again to playwriting and in 1936 he won the Nobel Prize, but in the meantime suffering to his life began. His first son by his first wife committed suicide which gave him mental pain. After some years he was affected by paralysis and his physical suffering began. In the meantime his isolation, family trouble and dissension began and he died eventually in 1953. 0 0 0
Eugene O’Neill
N.B. The article ‘The Love of Eugene O’Neill’ originally belongs to the book ‘Love of Reputed Persons‘ by Menonim Menonimus.
Eugene O’Neill
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