The Hairy Ape
What metaphors are used in The Hairy Ape by Eugene O'Neill?

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Hell, in this play and in O'Neill's intent, is firstly and metaphorically imprisonment in the steel bars of the Upper Class's definitions of the role of the Working Class; but secondly, and more immediately, hell is man's animalistic, raw, unrestrained impulsive nature … a second hell which, in the mind and writing of Eugene O'Neill, leads to the first.
The Hairy Ape