The Hairy Ape

The Hairy Ape is a 1922's expressionist play by Eugene O'Neill about a brutish, unthinking laborer known as Yank as he searches for a sense of belonging in a world controlled by the rich. At first, Yank feels secure as he stokes the engines of an ocean liner, and is highly confident in his physical power over the ship's engines and his men.
However, when the imprudent, rich daughter of an industrialist in the steel business refers to him as a "filthy beast," Yank undergoes a crisis of identity and so starts his mental and physical deterioration.

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