《长日入夜行》中玛丽的悲剧命运分析_英语论文

Analysis of Mary's Tragic Fate in Long Day's Journey into Night

摘要

尤金·奥尼尔被誉为“美国戏剧之父”，是美国表现主义代表作家之一。《长日入夜行》是奥尼尔极具代表性的一部戏剧。曾经被一些批评家们称为“美国最好的悲剧”。在这部剧作中，奥尼尔描绘了一幅饱受悲剧摧残的家庭画面。剧本对玛丽和丈夫、儿子在一天里的生活的详尽描述，用同情的笔触，为读者们呈现了一个希望摆脱悲惨命运的女性及其无助的挣扎和抵抗。本文以《长日入夜行》为蓝本,分析女主人公玛丽在寻求归属的旅程中从希望到失望最后绝望的心理历程。

《长日入夜行》揭露了美国现代人的悲剧生活。通过分析剧中每个人物悲惨的生活，揭示现代人的悲剧主要是内心的渴望与现实生活之间的差距所造成的。生活似乎跟每个人都开了个玩笑，他们想要的与现实是如此的不同，似乎有一种“隐形的力量”在掌控着每一个人的命运，这就是尤金·奥尼尔悲剧观的核心内容。该戏剧充分提现了奥尼尔的悲剧观。

关键词：长日入夜行；玛丽；个人悲剧

Abstract

Eugene O’Neill is known as the “father of American drama”, who is one of the expressionist representative writers. Long Day's Journey into Night is one of his masterpieces, which has been called “the best American tragedy” by some critics. In the play, O’Neill painted a family picture wracked by tragedy. The play depicts the life of Mary, her husband and son within one day in detail, with sympathetic strokes, shows readers a desire to get rid of the tragic fate of a woman’s helpless struggle and resistance. The paper is based on Long Day’s Journey into Night, deeply analyzing Mary in the journey of seeking sense of belonging in the psychological course of the last desperate from hope to despair.

Long Day’s Journey into Night reveals the tragedy of modern life in the United States. Through the analysis of each characters’ miserable life, he concluded that the tragedy of modern times mainly is the desire of the heart and the difference between the real life. Life seems to have played a joke on everyone, what you want is so different from reality, there seems to be an “invisible forces” in the control the destiny of every person. That is the core content of Eugene O’Neill’s view on tragedy. The drama fully shows the view of O’Neill’s tragedy.

Key words: Long Day’s Journey into Night  Mary  personal tragedy