TYRONE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS Flashcards
(11 cards)
Role in the play?
Patriach- of the family
Decay- represents the emotional/ moral decay at the heart of the family
Connection to other characters? - Mary
His parsimony led to Mary’s addiction (cheap doctor), working as a major source of guilt and helplessness. Their marriage oscillates between tender and blame-filled moments.
Connection to other characters- Jamie
Strained relationship- Jamie resents Tyrones frugality and emotional coldness. Tyrone projects his own sense of failure, self-destruction onto Jamie.
Connection to other characters- Edmund (youngest son)
Tyrone sees Edmund as a poetic, tragic version of himself whom he wants to save but fails due to his own turmoil.
Personal context (summary)
Childhood- grew in abject poverty, thrusted prematurely into the role of provided- his trauma fuells his pathological parsimony.
Acting career– clings onto his single successful acting role (manitee idol)
Wated potential: Haunted by his wasted potential as an artist, a father and husband.
Archetypes?
American dreamer turned cynic
Tyrnnaical patriarch
Tragic hero archetype: Harmatia= fear of poverty, failure and emotional intimacy,
Key context? (summary)
19 centuary masculinity- Clings onto 19th cen model of masuclinity defined by emotional unavailibility, stoicism, status and control through work.
American dream- turns into a nightmare of empty survival, revealing the hollowness behind capitalist success.
Irish- American experience– characterised by trauma, hard labour, immigrant survivalism, lack of security in a hostile classist America.
Marxists reading?
Tyrone works as a symbol of the hollowness and corruption behind capitalist sucess–he commodifies his talent, his wife’s health, his son’s future (ironically destroying the emotional economy of the family.
Psychanalysis- Freudian repression and displacement (father-son complex)
His coldness can be read as repression–a protective mechanism against confronting his failures.
Links to Father-Son complex– his mistreatment of Jamie reflects as a projection of his own self-loathing.
Freud family romance theory- sons compete for automny against the father.
Psychoanalysis- Narcissitic injury and identity crisis
Identity crisis- Tyrone clings to a his success in a theatrical role as it froze his ego at the most successful point of his life.
Narcisstic injury- his idenity is fragile (prone to narcisstic wounds) and any threat to his status or legacy triggers defensiveness or denial
What acting role did Tyrone find success in?
Count of Monte Cristo
