It takes the average reader 2 hours and 43 minutes to read Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
A trilogy of full-length plays reworking themes from Greek tragedy, particularly the Oresteia of Aeschylus, relocated to New England in 1865, just after the end of the Civil War.Lavinia Mannon (Electra) dotes on her father Ezra (Agamemnon), who has just returned victorious from the war, and despises her mother Christine (Clytemnestra) - especially since Catherine has been making a cuckold of Ezra with Lavinia's ex-suitor, Adam. Lavinia's brother Orin (Orestes), on the other hand, war-wounded and weak, idolises his mother and resents his overbearing father. When Christine and her lover poison...
Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill is 162 pages long, and a total of 40,824 words.
This makes it 55% the length of the average book. It also has 50% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 3 hours and 43 minutes to read Mourning Becomes Electra aloud.
Mourning Becomes Electra is suitable for students ages 10 and up.
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