榆树下的欲望分析.ppt

Part One
The Author: Eugene Glastone O’Neill
Born in a hotel room and died in a hotel room.
Eugene O’Neill (1888-1953)
The greatest American dramatist
“Founder of the American drama” and “American Shakespeare”
Won Pulitzer Prize four times
Won the Nobel Prize (1936)
His life
Family
Father-an actor
Education
Princeton
University
Experiences
Sailor
Gold digger
Theatre manager
Birth
A theatrical
family
His life
Tuberculosis
1912-1913
Baker’s drama class at Harvard
Baker’s drama class
Parkinson
Illness and death
Became infatuated with the works of Ibsen and Strindberg and cultivated an interest in play writing.
His career as a dramatist began and he had been wholly dedicated to the mission as a dramatist.
I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room, and God damn it, died in a hotel room.
The early period: Realistic plays
Bound East for Cardiff (1916) 《东航卡迪夫》
His first play
The beginning of his dramatic career
Ushering in the modern era of the American theatre
Sea life; one-act plays
Romanticism,
naturalism
realism
His works
The middle period: Expressionistic plays
Mourning es Electra (1931) 《悲悼》
Strange Interlude (1928) 《奇异的插曲》 Pulitzer Prize
Desire Under the Elms (1924) 《榆树下的欲望》
Anna Christie (1922) 《安娜·克里斯蒂》 Pulitzer Prize
Beyond the Horizon (1920) 《天边外》 Pulitzer Prize & Nobel prize in literature
Final period: Realism and Modernism
The eth (1946) 《送冰的人来了》
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1956) Pulitzer Prize
《进入黑夜的漫长旅程》
Themes of his plays: tragic view of life
1
Human existence
and predicament
2
Meaning
and purpose
3
Disappointment
and despair
4
The truth of life
Life and death, illusion and disillusion, dream and reality, etc.
1
Many characters are seeking meaning and purpose of life.
2
But ending with disappointment and despair.
3
O’ Neill himself was constantly wrestling with these issues and struggling with the perplexity about the truth of life.
4
Features of his plays
dream—doubt—defeat
symbolic