Beyond The Horizon

Beyond the Horizon is a play written by American playwright Eugene ONeill. Beyond the Horizon won the 1920 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The play takes place on a farm in the Spring and then moves forward three years later in the Summer and finally five years later in late Fall. The play focuses on the portrait of a family and particularly only two brothers Andrew and Robert. In the first act of the play Robert is about to go off to sea with their uncle Dick a sea captain while Andrew looks forward to marrying his sweetheart Ruth and working on the family farm as he starts a family.