摘要：

尤金奥尼尔在继承与发展古希腊悲剧的基础上，吸收近代优秀的哲学思想，以贴近现实生活的笔触，创作了一大批优秀的戏剧作品。在他的作品中，古希腊悲剧的核心思想即人与神的对抗变为了现代社会中人与控制人命运的神秘力量的对抗。悲剧主人公们在追求不可能实现的幻想中渐渐沉沦并最终毁灭，表现出了人与金钱社会不可调和的矛盾。奥尼尔的悲剧具有广泛的普遍性，它反映了人类内心深处的欲望与欲望不能实现所带来的痛苦。尤金奥尼尔戏剧创作的最大特点是继承了古希腊悲剧的传统，在他的戏剧作品中处处可见古希腊悲剧的影响。而被誉为奥尼尔最伟大的也是美国戏剧最伟大的作品，“进入黑夜的漫长旅程”，则尤为集中的体现了这一特点。

关键词：尤金奥尼尔，悲剧，古希腊悲剧

Abstract：

Eugene O'Neill’s tragedy are written based on his tragic ideology which originated from the classical Greek tragedy, Schopenhauer's pessimism philosophy, Nietzsche’s idea about life values and Freud's psychoanalytic theory. “Long Day’s Journey into Night” is the reflection of these ideas. You can not expect everything to turn out as you wish. Human life itself is a tragedy. Every family has a skeleton in the cupboard. An Intelligent man has more depression in spirit than an ignorant man. Eugene O'Neill is the representative figure of the tragedy of the twentieth century in United States. Why do people live? What is controlling people’s life? What is the support of human’s survival? These are what he had been searched in all his life in dramatic. If someone is too intelligent he will have to suffer the mental pain. Because more thought, more pain.

Key words: Eugene O’Neill’s, tragedy, Greek tragedy

1.    Introduction
Eugene O'Neill (1888-1953) as the founder of American serious drama, his works reflect the first half of the 20th century American people’s life, thought, confusion and pursuit, revealing their rich inner world. Eugene O'Neill's tragedy has deep ideological content and philosophical implication that result from his inherited and deepened the spirit of ancient Greek tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy profoundly affected the spirit of Eugene O'Neill's tragedy creation, provides important source to his works of art.
O'Neill had created modern American tragedy with his tragic creative. His tragic concept first is not of drama, but the concept of society and life. O'Neill respected classical tragedy, thinking that tragedy should motivate people in spirit, and emancipate people from the trivial and greed of daily life, that to achieve a more profoundly understanding of life. Though O’Neill’s view on tragedy is a lofty spiritual value, he never evades or conceals contradictions, nor arranges artificial happy end. He believes that people should know what is behind them. They should have the courage to face the disillusionment of ugliness and beauty.