论尤金·奥尼尔在《长日入夜行》中的存在_英语论文

O’Neill’s Presence in Long Day’s Journey into Night

摘要

自传性作品《长日入夜行》一剧中，尤金·奥尼尔真实再现了其成长的家庭背景,剧中人物都是作者家人的真实再现。本文试图从家庭影响，悲剧意识和象征使用等三个方面来探讨作者奥尼尔在本剧中的存在。本文分为引言、正文三个章节和结语五个部分。引言部分指出《长日入夜行》作为奥尼尔自传性剧作品在奥尼尔剧作生涯中占有的重要地位。它是奥尼尔用血与泪书写的家庭悲剧，是他最成功的剧作之一。奥尼尔对于年少家庭的复杂情感、他的悲剧思想等等都在此剧中得到高度体现。探讨奥尼尔在剧本中的存在，可以帮助我们更好的了解奥尼尔。第一章通过论述奥尼尔家庭及家人的影响分析奥尼尔在剧中的存在。每一个蒂龙家庭成员的身上都可以找到奥尼尔的一部分真我。第二章通过探讨剧中的悲剧意识来论述奥尼尔在剧中的存在。对于四个悲剧人物的探讨中注入了他无奈、悲观的人生态度。第三章通过探讨一些象征符号的使用来论述奥尼尔的存在，如题目的象征意义、雾、雾号等。本文通过以上角度对《长日入夜行》的探讨，论述了奥尼尔在剧中的存在，并深入揭示了奥尼尔对此部剧作的投入，表达了奥尼尔对于家庭悲剧的思考，是其人生态度和价值观念的体现。

关键词：尤金·奥尼尔 长日入夜行 存在 悲剧意识 象征符号

Abstract

In Eugene O’Neill’s autobiographical play Long Day’s Journey into Night, he undisguisedly shows his vivid and accurate family environment. All characters in the play are sculptured according to his true family members. In this paper, the author tries to delve into the play from the perspective of the playwright’s presence in the play from the following three aspects: family members’ influences, his tragic view and the use of symbols in the play. This paper contains five parts: introduction, three chapters and conclusion. The introduction part is mainly to state this play’s important status. It is widely considered as his finest work and is written by Eugene O’Neill with tears and blood. He expresses all his complex feeling and his life thinking into the play, and it is a play worth studying. The first chapter discusses O’Neill’s presence in the play through his family member’s influence, and each family member reflects one part of his ego soul. The second chapter writes about O’Neill’s presence in the play through the tragic sense in the play. To probe into the four tragic souls, we can sense the presence of the mature O’Neill. The third chapter focus on the symbols used in the play, like fog, foghorn and so on, which are helpful for the playwright to better express his themes, and we can sense the presence of the playwright. According to those aspects, the thesis expounds O’Neill’s presence in the play, and deeply reveals the author’s painstaking efforts. Also, it expresses his thinking towards family tragedy as well as his life attitudes and values.

Key words: Eugene O’Neill; Long Day’s Journey into Night; presence; tragic sense; use of symbols