《长日终入夜》悲剧特征分析_英语论文

The Analysis of the Tragic Features in Long Day’s Journey into Night

摘要

《长日终入夜》是美国伟大的戏剧家尤金·奥尼尔的作品，既是一部他个人自传式的家庭悲剧，也是一部伟大的现代悲剧。通过展现蒂隆一家的真实生活，奥尼尔揭示了现代人面临的生存困境和他们的痛苦和孤独。本文借助了传统的悲剧理论和现代的悲剧观对《长日终入夜》的悲剧特征进行分析，由人物的悲剧性命运、情节中所展现的不断的悲剧性冲突、背景中的悲剧性意象三个方面切入，分析作者是如何通过这三个方面达成其引起读者怜悯、悲伤的悲剧效果的。本文分为三个部分，在第一部分主要介绍了奥尼尔的创作背景以及国内外对《长日入夜行》的一些研究成果。第二部分为正文，第一章分析了作品中四个人物各自悲剧而又无奈的命运，第二章分析了人物之间的悲剧性冲突以及人物自身强烈的心理冲突，第三章讨论了雾和雾笛这两个主要悲剧意象的作用。第三部分为结论，对全文进行了简要的总结。

关键词：《进入黑夜的漫长旅程》 悲剧  悲剧特征

Abstract

Long Day’s Journey into Night, written by American great playwright Eugene O’Neill, is an autobiographic family tragedy of O’Neill’s and also a great modern tragedy. O’Neill reveals the predicaments modern people face and their anguish and loneliness by showing the Tyrones’ real life. This paper analyzes the tragic features in Long Day’s Journey into Night on the basis of traditional tragedy concepts and modern tragedy beliefs. This paper studies how the play achieves the moving tragic effect from three aspects, namely, the characters tragic and uncontrollable destiny, the consistent and violent conflicts, and the tragic images. The paper is divided into three parts: introduction, content and conclusion. In the first part, a brief introduction about the author and the writing background is made, as well as the study of the play at home and abroad. In the second part, the three tragic features are carefully discussed. In the last part, a brief conclusion is drawn. 

Key Words: Long Day’s Journey into Night, tragedy, tragic features

Contents

Introduction 4

Chapter One The Characters’ Tragic and Uncontrollable Destiny 5

1.1 James Tyrone：Stingy and Failed Father 6

1.2 Mary Tyrone：Drug-addicted and Nervous Mother 7

1.3 James Tyrone：Cynic and Unaccepted Loafer 9

1.4 Edmund Tyrone: Pessimistic and Weak Patient 11

Chapter Two The Consistent and Violent Conflicts 12

2.1 Characters’ Dissatisfaction and Argument with Each Other 13

2.2 The Inward Contradiction of the Characters 14

Chapter Three The Tragic Images 17

Conclusion 19

Bibliography 20

Acknowledgments 21