Anna Christie에 나타난 바다의 상징성 = The Symbolism of the Sea in Engene O’Neill’s Anna Christie

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

According to O’Neill’s tragic vision, human tragedy is the tragedy of the very existence of the individual self, the tragedy of relentless inner awareness and guilt, with only occasional and mysterious moments of transcendence.
Anna Christie concludes on the note that the sea directly controls the fate of the three protagonists. Anna is to be Burke’s wife, and Burke, as well as her father, is to set sail once again. The hint of foreboding does not mean certain doom, merely that all of life awaits them.
In this play, the sea intoxicates men with its freedom from respon-sibility. It causes them to forget their personal obligations. Anna herself rejoices in the feeling of freedom the sea gives her. This freedom is dangerous, because it means that those left at home will suffer like Anna’s mother suffered. The sea is life itself, or fate, in the play. As such, it cannot be avoided or fought directly; it can only be endured.
For Anna, the sea is her past and her future. In the past, her father was so dominated by the sea that he left her among strangers. Anna’s future marriage to Burke will be dominated by the sea also. For Chris, th sea means suffering, or the working out of man’s fate in tragic terms, because he has been the fearful slave of the sea all his life. Burke trusts the divinity to which he belongs and willingly lives out the full course of his fate without rebellion. For him it is enough to trust.
Therefore, for Chris, the sea is the devil, but for Burke, the sea is the will of God, and for Anna, the sea is her purification.