Long Day's Journey into Night에 나타난 비극성 연구 = (A) Study on Tragedy in Long Day's Journey into Night

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

A sense of alienation has appeared in modern society as a universal phenomenon. Modern excessive materialism and mechanical civilization have not made man experience himself as the center of his world and the creator of his own acts.
O'Neill was much interested in this matter, which was treated. on his plays. This subject among the important themes expressed in O'Neill's plays is the conflict between the reality and dream of life. It is, namely, man's loss of the true self between reality and dream.
In this point, O'Neill tries to confront the reality of life in Long Day's Journey into Night - his autobiographical work O'Neill said this work a play of old sorrow, written in tears and blood in his dedication of Long Day's Journey into Night to Carlotta. This play shows the new posture of compassion and understanding which leads toward reconciliation with the unseen forces, which had led him to bewilderment and pain in the early plays.
In the first place in Long Day's Journey into Night, O'Neill endowed four persons with tragic characters resulted from the sense of alienation. Throughout his work, the character are depicted as an isolated and lonely being.
Especially Mary, one of the Tyrones, felt the loss of a sense of belonging and isolation for homelessness. Modern critics insist it should be the American tragedy, which means the rootlessness of modern man. That is the root of the external and internal alienation of the Tyrones, too. But she, in the end, chooses the retrogressive solution of morphine addiction. Therefore she gives up her life.
While, Men of the Tyrones get over the pain from the isolation and the loss of self through the progressive solution of dialogue.
O'Neill suggests some possibilities to overcome the consciousness of alienation through Edmund in it. Although Mary withdraws herself from the rest of her family, they shows that man can be alive in all desperate situation by his own humanism and strong kinship. It is through his understanding, his compassion, and his pity that Edmund can transcend the tragic situation with his family. It is certain that their lack of understanding among the members of the family was responsible for their isolated and uncommunicative situation.
Though a consciousness of alienation may seem to be inevitable in every human existence, he was capable of overcoming it with his own love and his strong kinship. I believe he is great, for he never abandon himself in spite of any desperate and hopeless situation, and he can eventually come to a hopeful life.
Namely, As Edmund confronts the reality, he leads to his life 'Journey beyond night' toward dawn from 'Journey into night' toward death.

목차 (Table of Contents)

• 목차 = ii
• Ⅰ. 서론 = 1
• Ⅱ. Long Day's Journey into Night에 나타난 비극성 = 5
• 1. 성격에 의한 비극 = 5
• 2. 소외 의식으로 인한 비극 = 22
• Ⅲ. 비극에서의 노력과 극복 = 44
• Ⅳ. 결론 = 60
• BIBLIOGRAPHY = 63
• ABSTRACT = 66