How do O'Neill's ideas relate to modern alienation?
This feeling of being adrift, disconnected, it was the very air I breathed and tried to capture on stage. The modern world, with its rapid changes and shifting certainties, it only magnifies that primal sense of alienation. My characters, they are often strangers in their own lives, cut off from any true sense of belonging or purpose, trapped in a meaningless universe. This damned, clinging past still weighs us down, even as the future races ahead, offering no real solace. The search for meaning in a seemingly indifferent world, the profound loneliness that gnaws at the soul – these are not issues confined to my time; they are the enduring scars of the human condition, perhaps even more acute now.
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