Oppression Resisting Voice of a Woman in Eugene O’ Neill’s Play Anna Christie

Abstract

In the current literary arena, there are ongoing debates on the projection of female characters in progress of numerous literary expressions come in uncommon terms and particular classifications. They are normally introduced in extremes. Possibly they are great mothers, spouses, daughters and so on or they are whores or malevolence like figures. Yet feminists differ in their perspectives and criticize the literary works, framing female models in a narrow way. Eugene O’Neill, father of serious American drama has set a trend by seriously discussing the problems faced by women in the American society of his period, on the grounds of emerging feministic phase when feminism began to spread all over Europe.