Yank knows: We who work at the bottom - in the engine room of the mighty ship - we are in truth at the top. Nothing stirs without our strength. Yank is the strongest of all. A ruler, a boss. He cares nothing for the others who bask on the upper deck. But in the eyes of these real bosses, he's nothing but a fearsome, lowly animal. How can that be? Is his work contemptible, his power animal? What can be the basis of the pride that surely he is - must be - entitled to? Yank leaves his men and his machine, his home and his self. He searches for a replacement, for meaning, at least for an enemy. But he finds nothing. Eugene O'Neill's drama tells, through the figure of Yank, of the violence of the excluded, of the contempt they experience, and of their rage, which spreads in all directions at once.
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