悲剧视界中的尤金·奥尼尔

Eugene O'Neill Interpreted from the Perspective of Tragedy

悲剧素来被看作艺术的最高形式,由悲剧意识和悲剧精神两个要素构成。人在情感与理智、现实与理想、生存与死亡的复杂悲剧矛盾关系中,始终不懈地追求自我本质力量的实现。悲剧并非仅指生命的苦难与毁灭,更重要的是面对不可避免的苦难和死亡的来临时,人所持的敢于抗争的态度和勇于超越的精神。尤金.奥尼尔以悲剧进行创作、借悲剧阐释社会现实、用悲剧精神启迪人生,在美国文学乃至世界文学中影响深远。

Tragedy,usually viewed as the highest form of art,is composed of tragic consciousness and tragic spirit.Man,inevitably caught up in the complex conflicts between sense and sensibility,reality and ideal,survival and death,constantly keeps pursuing his own self-realization.Therefore,tragedy does not only lie in man＇s suffering and destruction but,more importantly,in his resisting attitude and his surpassing spirit when confronted with doomed misery and death.Honored as ＂father of modern American drama＂,Eugene O＇Neill,composes a great number of tragedies to expose the social evils and inspire human life by their tragic spirit,and thus casts a long shadow on American literature and even the world literature.