O' Neill' s Tragic Sense: The Qualms of Individualist Heroes
SHI Xiao-ying LIU Zhen-qian (School of Foreign Languages, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P.R.China; School of Foreign Languages, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, P.R.China)
O' Neill' s plays represent tragic heroes who believe in individualism. In ancient Greek tragedies, tragic heroes struggle with forces beyond man,and the concurrent failures and sufferings provoke both the heroes and audiences to ponder the inadequacy of man, which contribute to the formation the tragic sense or nobility of characters in ancient Greek tragedies. O' Neill greatly admires, yet hardly approaches this nobility, precisely because of the individualism he upholds. He slides over the struggle human characters engage in against external forces, the cosmos or society, while instead singlehandedly focuses on failures and sufferings per se. Consequently, O' Neill characters have no recognition of the limit of man, but suffer narcissism and resultant self-pity. Even with free will promised by individilism, O' Neill' characters still perplex over self-identities, alienating from religion, society or other individuals.
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