美國文學(xué)theoriginsoftheatre(編輯修改稿)
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【文章內(nèi)容簡介】 elief is felt, no light is seen, and all ends in the darkness. ? a metaphor for O39。Neill39。s lifelong endeavor to find truth and the way to acceptance. ? he found the faithless, fragmentary nature of modern life, whereas all passed into night. In despair O39。Neill thought of the old God of the Catholic church on which it is ironical to note, he had turned his back long before., Desire Under the Elms ? 1. Outline : ? Ephraim Cabot abandons his farm and his three sons, Eben, resents his father for destroying his mother39。s life。 he buys out his brothers, ? b. for farmland ,Abbie married Cabot ? c. sexual love with Abbie. Abbie bees pregnant by Eben。 ? the infant for true love ? d. Eben, enraged, turns Abbie over to the sheriff, but not before he realizes his love for her and confesses his plicity同謀 , 共犯 . The Hippolytus myth ? Married to Theseus特修斯 , Phaedra falls in love with her handsome but chaste正派的 stepson, Hippolytus. Rejected, she accuses him of raping her. When Theseus prays to his father, Poseidon海神波塞頓： , to punish his son, and the son is dragged to death across the shoreline . ? ? Medea A princess and sorceress女巫 of Colchis who helped Jason obtain the Golden Fleece, lived as his wife, and killed their children as revenge for his infidelity. Medea plex ? In the last act Abbie bears some resemblance to Medea who murders her offspring, but the similarity is limited to the sole act of infanticide. ? Medea39。s motive is to punish Jason, who left her for Creon39。s daughter。 Abbie acts to please, rather than punish, her lover. Scene IV ? idea of scene 2 and 3 ? animosity surfaced 。 erupts into violence 。 right of the farmland。Enraged betrayal。, Eben threatens to tell his father the truth and to leave the farm. He wishes that the child had never been born, that it will die. Devastated, Abbie asks him if he would love her again if it were jest the same as before he e. Assured he would, she promises to prove that she loves Eben better39。n everything39。 else in the world! ? 2 main idea in scene 4: ? Abbie says: 39。I killed him.. Eben misunderstands Abbie here, promises to protect her。 the baby is dead。, he goes for the sheriff。 regretting his betrayal of Abbie to the sheriff and begging her fiveness. Urged to escape, she responds: I got t39。take my punishmentt pay thr my
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