workers feel powerful when in fact they are trapped in dark stokeholes like caged animals Satire on the Upper Class In Scene Two Mildred Douglas and her Aunt sit on the deck They wear white clothes They enjoy the sun while workers burn coal and smoke Mildred says she wants to know how the working class lives But this is false sympathy She faints when she sees Yank and calls him The filthy beast O Neill satirizes the rich who pretend to care for the poor but actually despise them The Aunt represents arrogance She warns Mildred not to go below deck This scene laughs at upper-class charity Satire on Class Division Scene Five takes place on Fifth Avenue New York The street is clean rich and proud O Neill sets satire here by showing the gap between classes Long speaks of socialism But Yank only wants revenge He blocks people from the church He insults them They are shocked but silent Yank finally hits a gentleman Soon the police arrest him The satire here is on both sides The rich ignore the workers The workers answer only with anger not with sense O Neill shows society as a stage of class hatred without a solution Satire on Political and Social Movements In Scene Six Yank is in Blackwell s Island prison He hears about the I W W Industrial Workers of the World He thinks it will give him a place In Scene Seven he goes to their office At first they welcome him But when he talks of blowing up the Steel Trust they suspect him They think he is a spy They throw him out O Neill satirizes even the workers movements They do not trust their own class They fear spies more than they fight for justice A policeman also behaves like this Yank Say where do I go from here Policeman Go to hell This satire shows modern politics as weak and divided Satire on Modern Civilization and Animal Instinct The final scene in the Zoo is the strongest satire Yank tries to find friendship with a gorilla But the gorilla kills him He says Christ where do I get off at Where do I fit in O Neill s satire here is bitter Modern society throws men down to the level of beasts Yank the strong stoker cannot live as a man He dies like an ape in a cage The satire is that modern civilization is not human at all It creates machines classes prisons but no real place for man The Hairy Ape is a powerful social satire Through Yank s journey from the stokehole to Fifth Avenue from prison to the Zoo O Neill attacks false pride rich hypocrisy class division weak politics and inhuman civilization The play is not a comedy but bitter laughter It shows how society itself makes man a stranger Yank becomes a victim but society becomes the real target of satire