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How might O'Neill's stage directions function as a character in and of themselves?
The landscape of the West Indies in O'Neill's imagination seems to serve as both a peaceful and a terrifying backdrop for Jones' escape from his revolting subjects. O'Neill describes the landscape with a sober and poetic clarity, calling the forest's "relentless immobility" and its "brooding, implacable silence." This description stands in stark and indifferent relief to the scrambling escape of the emperor.
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Discuss the fantastical elements that O'Neill introduces in today's reading.
In this second scene, non-realistic and more expressionistic dramatic elements are...
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