Post on 27-May-2015
BEYOND THE HORIZON
Eugene O’Neill
Question:
Actually, Who do you think Ruth
really love , Robert or Andrew ,
both or both not ?
My view : she loved Robert in spirit and
Andrew in material.
At the very start, Ruth was a woman simple,
enthusiastic , knowing little about life experience
and cruelty . She loved Robert because of Robert’
s sense of poet when she actually was a girl full of
fantasies and beauties. Her love was immature.
When faced difficulties in life, she couldn’t make
any
Change, complained about all her misfortunes,
and thought all these were brought by Robert’s
incompetence.
Then, She began to think about Andrew’s
goodness and regretted her marriage to
Robert .she told Robert she loved Andrew, which
could be sensed that She regarded Andrew as
her lifeboat to give a new hope. She wanted to
escape from the hardness. And Andrew was a
better choice for her to live a good life.
To some degree, Ruth’s tragedy is just
about everyone who have hard choices
between spirit and material.
And I think she was more tragical
compared with Robert and Andrew.
Because Robert had his dream“beyond
the horizon”, Andrew explored
new life and desired to change ,but
she had nothing.
the two man whoever she loved or
chose, it would be a tragedy. It was
called fatalism.