The South Sea IslandsThe Carefree South Sea Islands are a most popular location for a vacation or honeymoon. In the play Mourning Becomes Electra, by Eugene O'Neill, the islands are a place where sex is not considered a sin and where people live freely, as nature intended. This piece was written in a context where such actions were frowned upon. It is also in these islands that escaping with Christine Mannon was a goal never achieved by two men who both experienced painful and vain deaths. Orin Mannon and Captain Adam Brant fell at the hands of the femme fatale that was Christine Mannon. Both were sucked into the whirlwind of destruction as Christine sang her siren song, beckoning them to come to her and flee to the South Sea Islands. This is also where girls grew into women and complete freedom was found. Adam Brant wanted to take Christine and Lavinia into “The Blessed Isles”. He had been there before and resided in a country where “the natives walked around naked.” He remembers them very well when he describes them to Lavinia. Lavinia: I have your admiration for naked native women. You said they found the secret to happiness because they had never heard that love could be a sin. Brant: So you remember that, right? Always! And they lived as close to the Garden of Paradise before the discovery of sin as you will find on this earth! Unless you have seen it, you cannot imagine the green beauty of their land nestled in the blue sea! The clouds like on the tops of the mountains, the sun dozing in your blood, and always the waves on the coral reef singing a song in your ears like a lullaby! The blessed islands, I would call them! You can forget all the dirty dreams of greed and power of men (279)! Adam Brant speaks of these islands as a paradise where no one can go and find happiness. He tells Lavinia that he wants to take her there, the islands where innocence can be found. However, these picturesque islands are where he really wants to go with Christine, because Adam loves her. This messy love triangle only proves that accessing these islands of innocence truly goes beyond morality. "O'Neill reuses in various forms the conventional image of exotic islands in order to elicit a universally conditioned response from his audience - escape from unpleasant reality -" (Ronald T..