Origin Of Eugene O'Neill's Tragic Consciousness

O'Neill's Tragic There are many reasons for the formation of this paper is to explore this issue from three aspects, layer by layer deep to dig deep in his work behind the tragedy of the nature of tragedy. Literary and artistic creation is always to reflect the psychological demands of the individual creators. Family environment and personal experiences of the O'Neill had a profound psychological impact, is a tragic consciousness of the important reasons. Father, mother and brother have a major impact on O'Neill life characters, their misfortune in O'Neill's mind cast a deep shadow, triggered O'Neill pessimistic attitude towards life, this pessimistic view of life and thus affect his Drama.Closely related with Creation O'Neill not only his family, and his religious beliefs. O'Neill's life can be said with a kind of religion has tangled relationship. It is this dubious religious feelings, made him something of the attitude in dealing with the psychological conflicts arise, it is precisely because of this ambivalence of mischief, making his analysis of some practical issues often can not draw a clear judgments, His thinking is always in a state of chaos, combined with immigration and cultural impact of the collision with the local culture, it is him at a loss. O'Neill is also a form of religious belief shaken sense of the important reasons for the tragedy.In addition, O'Neill deeply Schopenhauer's "will to life theory" and Nietzsche's "will to power" theory effect, Schopenhauer and Nietzsche's non-management ideas for the Eugene O'Neill laid the foundation of philosophy and aesthetics . It is in their philosophy and aesthetics under the guidance of O'Neill truly grasp the essence of art, began to create the perspective of modern psychological shift, through the modern human psyche in order to return wealth to the expressionistic stage form, to a modern audience the misfortune of suffering, desire, absurdity, fear and despair of the inner world.