American Research Journal of English and Literature

The present article tries to consider Eugene O’Neill’s Beyond the Horizon and find answers to the questions about men’s tendency towards women and vice versa. Men and women are different in joining to each other. Sexual pleasure causes men to be on the way women go. On the contrary women’s emotional demand draw them towards men. O’Neill poses the story about the qualities of life and love affairs and the interactions between two brothers in one hand and a girl on the other hand. This play tries to reflect a realistic view of different desires of men and women. He uses the characters Robert to show that man’s urgent need for sexual pleasure causes him to use romantic and emotional words to trap a woman. On the other hand, he uses the character Ruth to show that woman’s desire for emotional pleasure causes her not to see the fire under the dash.