The South Sea Islands The carefree South Sea Islands are the most desirable place for a holiday or honeymoon. In the play Mourning Becomes Electra, by Eugene O'Neill, the islands are a place where sex is not seen as a sin and people live life freely, as nature intended them to. This play was written in an environment where such actions were frowned upon. It was also these islands where escaping with Christine Mannon was a goal never achieved by two men, both destined to a painful and vain death. Orin Mannon and Captain Adam Brant fell before the femme fatale that was Christine Mannon. Both were sucked into the vortex of destruction as Christine sang her siren's song, causing them to come to her and flee to the South Sea Islands. It was also here that the girls became women and complete freedom was found. Adam Brant wanted to bring Christine and Lavinia to "The Blessed Isles". He had been there before and had resided on the land where "the natives walked around naked." He remembers them vividly as he describes them to Lavinia. Lavinia: I your admiration for naked indigenous women. You said they had found the secret to happiness because they had never heard that love could be a sin. Brant: So you remember that, right? Yes! And they lived as close to the Garden of Paradise before sin was discovered as you will find it on this earth! Unless you have seen it, you cannot imagine the green beauty of their land set in the blue of the sea! The clouds seem to descend on the mountain tops, the sun slumbers in your blood and always the waves on the coral reef sing a song in your ears like a lullaby! I would call them the Blessed Islands! You can forget all men's dirty dreams of greed and power there (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, to the islands where innocence is found. However, these picturesque islands are the places he really wants to go with Christine, because Adam loves her. This messy love triangle only proves that reaching these islands of innocence is truly beyond the reach of morality. "O'Neill reuses in various forms the conventional image of exotic islands to obtain a universally conditioned response from his audience - escape from an unpleasant reality -" (Ronald T..