The Tragic Characters In The Lavinia Is Reading

Known as “Shakespeare of America”, Eugene O’Neill is the first dramatist of America whoearned a good reputation and admiration in the Europe stage.His works are very novel andmoving, and he also contributes a lot to the oldest art. His achievements are not only to breaktraditional art style creating much more modern drama but also to make a new page of thedevelopment of America’s dramas. What’s the most important is developing the real SeriousComedy of America. As a modern dramatist, Eugene O’Neill is very good at learning from thesenior people, especially that ancient Greek Tragedy. Apart from that, he continually absorbsdifferent kinds of literature theories of the20s, combing the old and modern, which makes hisworks full of amazing charm both in modern and in old.Set in the ancient Greek tragedy Oresteia, Mourning Becomes Electra is a classicaltragedy of the medium term of his creation. During this time, Eugene O’Neill still concentrateson some moral problems of America culture, but the emphasis turns to search for its character’sself-psychological-experience. He tends to convey a world view and attitude towards life whichis different from the traditional Greek tragedies. So, it’s a great window for us to understand theauthors inner world by analyzing the characters of his books.The author represents the relationship between self-division and social culture by describingthe tragedy characters’ struggle and ruin in hard fortune. He is good at rewriting the traditionalGreek characters through spiritual analysis, masks or other modern theories, searching for lives’values and meanings of life using words, which adds modern meaning to the ancient Greektragedy. This essay is made up of three chapters, which are the heroines Lavinia and Christine’sstruggle, the ruined heroes Asila and Orin, the witnesses including other family members andservant. To convey these tragedy experiences and life experiences using different tragedycharacters analysis in this three directions.Chapter one, this novel based on these tragedy heroines Lavonia and Christine. He startedfrom the original tragedy character to reflecting their modern faces. I also discussed the differences betweenOresteia, Mourning Becomes Electra and the fortune attitude of O’Neill’s.Then attacking the Puritanism which is the mental of Irish, especially the depression and twistof humanity when it involved into the new England society. We can see the author’s positiveattitude towards these two women’s fight and struggles in searching for self-revolution. At last,by analyzing their super powerful determination and anti-society belief, we can see the superbvalue of this ancient Greek tragedy.Chapter two, this article will analyze Ailsa and Orin’s tragedy character. Starting from thebackground, I will discuss the modern tragedy characters. Then through using masks which is anew art method, expressing their inner feeling about the heroes, besides this, O’Neill used themodern psychology and philosophical theories into this modern plays. In the end, the authorexpressed his own tragedy value through the hero Olin’s self-ruin.Chapter three, I will discuss these second characters that are easily forgotten by readers theold Abby, Maria and other servant or citizens. These characters’ analyses are usually ignored byresearchers. Back to the descriptions of these under-novel characters, we can catch theirfunction in developing their tragedy heroes and its tragedy theme. What’s more, O’Neill evenused the ancient Greek chorus method to deep its tragedy atmosphere, deepening the maincharacters’ tragedy which lead to a long and lasting impression.