AnAnalysisofheTragedyofDesireunderheElms_开题报告

Eugene O'Neill is an epoch-making playwright in the history of American drama, the founder and founder of modern American drama, known as the "father of drama". O'Neill through the "elm under the desire", indulge in materialism in the American society, people and their future questioned, revealing the morality of modern life. This paper mainly discusses the main reason of analyzing the character of the characters in the play of "elm under the elm", and tries to analyze the tragic manifestation of O'Neill 's exaggerated deformation symbol.

This paper analyzes the causes of this tragedy from the aspects of devastating materialism and distorted human nature, and points out how O'Neill has used the method of exaggeration, deformation and symbolism to make the image of people so deeply rooted. There are two main difficulties in the process: 1. In the analysis of tragedy reasons, it will involve materialism and puritanism, which requires a certain knowledge base. 2. In the analysis of symbolic approach in the use of the text to O'Neill's tragic thoughts and consciousness have a full range, a wide range of understanding.

Foreign scholars on the "desire under the elm" research focused on the biblical archetypal criticism, criticism of human nature, feminist criticism, and the domestic analysis of "elm desire" in the moral decay, human destruction side. Some scholars have analyzed the psychology of the main characters in the novel, revealing the deep roots of the evil of human nature. Some scholars have consulted the knowledge of culture to explore the moral of elm in the works and analyze the factors of tragedy in the desire of elm.

Foreign scholar Floyd in her book mentioned "elm under the desire" is O'Neill's first real historical drama. After analyzing the essential characteristics of the characters in the play, Floyd analyzed the tragic nature of O'Neill's nature by analyzing the character of the hero's love from the perspective of Puritanism and the environment. Foreign scholar Bogard in his book pointed out that "the desire under the elm" This work is a tragic example of secularization. Ibn's as a son of his father's property coveted and the possession of the farmhouse and love Bi's desire for love and desire are the traditional secular view. The whole story runs through violence, cruelty, humanity, desire and other elements, will give God to human greed and postpartum performance was most vividly. Li Dan in the Greek tragedy scene and the structure of the narrative of the Bible - "elm under the myth of the myth - the prototype of the Bible" that O'Neill will be the Greek tragedy scene and the perfect blend of the narrative structure of the Bible together with the myth - the Bible The prototypical model explores the human tragedy in the context of the times, profoundly explains the desires, struggles and confusion in the depths of the modern human soul, and gives the myth of the new classics of the biblical classics. It expounds the modern human nature, sin and salvation Thinking. Wu Xiaomei, the domestic scholar Wu Xiaomei, summed up the causes of the tragedy in his essay "Desire under the Elm": An Shakespeare's Emotional Tragedy: First, ethical critique, that desire to promote the lack of human ethics, to tragedy and extinction; Criticism, that God's death and materialism lead to human degeneration; Third, the ideological criticism, pointed out that Puritanism on human nature alienation; Fourth, aesthetic criticism, pointed out that O'Neill's life's tragic beauty. Seemingly simple tragedy behind but hidden so many ethical, social, ideological, aesthetic factors.

There are more room for the analysis of the factors of the tragedy, and Eugene O'Neill uses a variety of writing techniques to highlight the subjective distortions caused by materialism and lead to tragedy. This diversity of writing content and tragic analysis are yet to be studied.Thus my study may hopefully make some contribution in this direction.

Outline

Introduction

2. An overview of the tragedy

The embodiment of tragedy

3.1 Exaggeration

3.2 Deformation

3.3 Symbolism

The main reason for the tragedy

4.1 Destructive materialism

4.1.1 Abbie’s undue desire for the farm

4.1.2 Old Cabot’s excessive desire for wealth

4.1.3 Eben and his brothers’ irrational desire for possession

4.2 Distorted human nature

4.2.1 Coldness among people

4.2.2 Decay of morality

4.2.3 Destruction of self

Conclusion

6. References

           

 

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