A Study of the Consummate Love in <italic style="font-style: italic">Desire Under the Elms</italic> by the Triangular Theory of Love

Yue Wang

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A Study of the Consummate Love in <italic style="font-style: italic">Desire Under the Elms</italic> by the Triangular Theory of Love

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A Study of the Consummate Love in Desire Under the Elms by the Triangular Theory of Love
A Study of the Consummate Love in Desire Under the Elms by the Triangular Theory of Love
Xi'an International Study University, School of English Studies, Xi'an Shanxi 710128, China
Vol. 5, Issue 2, Pages: 39-42(2024)
Published： 25 April 2024 ，
DOI：10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786506.20240502
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Yue Wang.A Study of the Consummate Love in Desire Under the Elms by the Triangular Theory of Love[J].Research on Literary and Art Development,2024,05(02):39-42.
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Yue Wang.A Study of the Consummate Love in Desire Under the Elms by the Triangular Theory of Love[J].Research on Literary and Art Development,2024,05(02):39-42. DOI： 10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786506.20240502.

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Desire Under the Elms

one of the most famous dramas of Eugene O'Neil

tells the love story between stepmother Abbie and stepson Eben which is full of sexual and material desires. This research is conducted to analyze the consummate love of Abbie and Eben by using the psychological approach

especially Robert J. Sternberg's triangular theory of love. According to the theory

love has three components: intimacy

passion

and decision/ commitment which interact with three of them and with the actions that they produce and that produce them to form several different kinds of loving experiences. The focus of the study is to analyze how the three components function to help Eben and Abbie find consummate love. The paper traces the moves of the two lovers to find out that the drama is a story not about infatuated love but consummate love

not about depravity but rescue

not about destruction but reconstruction. This research will give readers a new direction of the relationship between Eben and Abbie.

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Desire Under the ElmsTriangular theory of loveConsummate love

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A Study of the Consummate Love in Desire Under the Elms by the Triangular Theory of Love

DOI：10.47297/wsprolaadWSP2634-786506.20240502

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