论尤金·奥尼尔对古希腊悲剧文化的继承

On Eugene O'Neill's Inheritance of Ancient Greek Culture of Tragedies

古希腊悲剧文化对尤金·奥尼尔的影响是持久而深刻的,他不仅在悲剧的题材、模式、主题以及悲剧精神等方面继承了古希腊的悲剧文化,还以其自身的经历,独特的认识视角、生存洞察力以及他对人生的理解和感悟,阐释现代社会和人生的意义,也为人本体生存的真实状况提供了解释的依据,揭示出人生的真谛,净化人们的心灵,赋予生命以崇高的意义。

Ancient Greek culture of tragedies has such a profound and everlasting O＇Neill that he has written tragedies except one all his life. So to speak, ancient Greek effect on Eugene tragedies are the prime source of his creation. His tragedies inherit ancient Greek cuhural tradition, becoming an organic constituent of the Western culture of tragedies. Not only does he carry forward ancient Greek culture of tragedies in its subject matter, pattern, motif, and tragic spirits, he also expounds the meanings of modern society and human beings, based on his personal life, unique observation, insight of subsistence, and his understanding and enlightenment of life, supplying an explanatory basis for the real subsistence of Man to bring to light the true meaning of life, purify the souls of the people, and bestow life with a lofty meaning.