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Seth Beckwith
David Mannon was Ezra’s brother and Lavinia and Orin’s uncle. He was also Adam Brant’s father, having conceived his son during a secret affair with the family’s Canadian nurse Marie Brantôme. After Ezra and the rest of the Mannons disinherited David for having sex with a lower-class woman, David became bitter, violent, and depressed, eventually hanging himself when Brant was a teenager. Though David is long dead before Mourning Becomes Electra begins, Brant remains tormented by his father’s abusive behavior toward his mother—epitomizing the dangers of the Mannon family’s elitist beliefs. Seth Beckwith frequently notes that Brant resembles his father to such an extent that he seems like David’s ghost.
David Mannon Quotes in Mourning Becomes Electra
The Mourning Becomes Electra quotes below are all either spoken by David Mannon or refer to David Mannon. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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The Haunted: Act 3
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ORIN—I love you now with all the guilt in me—the guilt we share! Perhaps I love you too much, Vinnie!
LAVINIA—I don’t know what you’re saying!
ORIN—There are times now when you don’t seem to be my sister, not Mother, but some stranger with the same beautiful hair— (He touches her hair caressingly. She pulls violently away. He laughs wildly.) Perhaps you’re Marie Brantôme, eh? And you say there are no ghosts in this house?
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David Mannon Quotes in Mourning Becomes Electra
The Mourning Becomes Electra quotes below are all either spoken by David Mannon or refer to David Mannon. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
).
The Haunted: Act 3
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ORIN—I love you now with all the guilt in me—the guilt we share! Perhaps I love you too much, Vinnie!
LAVINIA—I don’t know what you’re saying!
ORIN—There are times now when you don’t seem to be my sister, not Mother, but some stranger with the same beautiful hair— (He touches her hair caressingly. She pulls violently away. He laughs wildly.) Perhaps you’re Marie Brantôme, eh? And you say there are no ghosts in this house?
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