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Age Guidance
Thirteen Plus (PG-13)
Genders
  • Female: 1
  • Male: 1
Style
Dramatic
Length
Long
Time Period
Contemporary
Time/Place
Mannon House, April 1865
Act/Scene
Act Two

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ORIN--(without looking at her) What's made you take such a fancy to Hazel all of a sudden? You never used to think much of her. You didn't want me going around with her.

CHRISTINE--(coming forward and sitting across the table from him--in her gentle motherly tone) I was selfish then. I was jealous, too, I'll confess. But all I want now is your happiness, dear. I know how much you used to like Hazel--

[...]

End:

ORIN--Mother! (then seizing her by the shoulders and staring into her eyes--with somber intensity) I could forgive anything--anything!--in my mother--except that other--that about Brant!

CHRISTINE--I swear to you--!

ORIN--If I thought that damned--! (with savage vengefulness) By God, I'd show you then I hadn't been taught to kill for nothing!

Full text of scene available at: O鈥橬eill, Eugene. Mourning Becomes Electra: The Hunted. 1931. http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400141h.html#p02

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http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks04/0400141h.html

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