YANK'S SEARCH FOR HIS SENSE OF BELONGING IN 'THE HAIRY APE'

YANK'S SEARCH FOR HIS SENSE OF BELONGING IN 'THE HAIRY APE'

In the twentieth century, technological development facilitates man's life, but it also makes man rootless. His position in the universe is no longer secure and he begins to sense the disintegration of human values-moral, religious and spiritual. This sense of loss is what Eugene O'Neill feels to be the primary characteristic of his age. In 'The Hairy Ape' O'Neill attempts to deal with the relationship between modern man and his universe, a universe in which man struggles to search for his sense of belonging among forces that are unknown to him.