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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThe thesis is a study on the journeys of the four Tyrones; James, Mary, Jamie,
and Edmund, to the past to find the causes of their present misery. O'Neill puts his
belief of the power of Force ( God, fate, past creates present) as the true source of
the misery within the journeys. The thesis writer, thus, analyses the kind of the
journeys that each of the Tyrones has, and also the power of the Force that can be
disclosed through those journeys. The analysis is through the misery and the self-revelations
of the Tyrones. From the analayis, the writer is able to find out that the
kind of journey of James is a tragic journey filled with regret for selling his artistic
career for money, and the power of the Force over his life is his fate for being born
as a poor Irish immigrants in which the poverty teaches him the important value of
money. Mary's journey is a kind of journey within the fog of dope and dream. Her
fate of marrying James has resulted in her misery afterward, and the misery forces
her to live in the fog of dope and dream. Jamie's kind of journey is a journey of
bitterness, cynicism, and despair. The fate that he should be born as a son of a
stingy man in which the stinginess destroys his family and his own life has made
him cynical and bitter against his family, and he also becomes despair toward his
future life. Edmund's journey is a kind of journey with light to go beyond the
darkness of life. He is the only one who can belong to the Force itself, to God, and
his belonging has brightened his own life and his view toward the condition of his
family. Another power of the Force, that is the past creates the present, happens to
all the four Tyrones. It can be seen that what has happened in the past makes the
present as what it is.