Types of Love in Selected Plays by Lillian Hellman
Description:
This study analyzed The Children's Hour, The Little Foxes, Watch on the Rhine, Toys in the Attic in terms of the forms of human love delineated by Erich Fromm in The Art of Loving. The motives and actions of one or more principal characters and their dramatic situations were studied. It was discovered that, in the plays that were examined, each character responded to his or her situation in a loving or a hateful manner and that these choices with regard to love provided the dramatic matrix of t…
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Date:
August 1983
Creator:
Beck-Horn, Debrah A.
Partner:
UNT Libraries