迷失在“爱的港湾”——试析《长日入夜行》一剧的人物情感心理历程

Lost in the Harbor of Love——On the Emotional and Psychological Characteristics in A Long Day’s Journey into the Night

美国作家尤金.奥尼尔是情感心理悲剧创作的杰出代表。其剧作《长日入夜行》深刻揭示出蒂龙一家四口隐秘内心的微妙斗争,集中展现了人物复杂情感的变化历程,在整个戏剧发展史上具有深远影响。全剧既反复再现了"责怪——后悔"节奏模式中的人物爱怨情感与心理冲突,又着力探究各种矛盾产生的本质成因,显示出悲剧人物情感心理历程的独特之处,使《长日入夜行》一剧获得了极为深刻的现实内涵和社会意义。

Eugene O＇Neill, the American writer, is an outstanding representative in creating emotional and psychological tragedies. His play A Long Day＇s Journey into the Night not only repeatedly reproduces the characters＇ love and resentful emotion and psychological conflict in the rhythm pattern of ＂blame-regret＂, but also diligently inquires about the essential reason of each kind of contradictions, thus demonstrating the unique merit of the tragic characters＇ emotional and psychological developing courses, which make it acquire much more profound realistic connotations and social meanings.