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his study aims at interpreting Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape and Desire under the Elms from the perspective of Christianity and anti-Christianity. O'Neill lost faith of religion early life. His lost of belief was based on the imagination for the relation between man and God. So he was pursuit of a role of theatre as a temple. In the blank between the death of old Christian God and the failure to seek for a substitute faith in modern science and materialism, he provided his dramatic vision from the result of artistic invention.
At various stages in his career, O'Neill interpreted the roots of Christian situation as deriving from the irreconcilable nature of man's relationship to the world. Also he was always grounded in material reality as Christianity. The Christianity is the cause of suffering that man and the universe cannot be harmonious.
Consequently in these plays, Christianity is associated with pressure of life, alienation, sterility and materialism. On the other hand, anti-Christianity is associated with natural life, harmony of man and the universe, richness, and softness. O'Neill conveyed that the tragedy lied not a pattern of inevitability like Christianity but in a spiritual triumph of anti-Christianity over the death or despair.

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• 손경환 [ Sohn, Kyung-Hwan | 원광보건대 ]

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• 간행물명

  영어영문학연구 [Studies on English Language & Literature]

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  계간

• pISSN

  1226-8682

• 수록기간

  1972~2020

• 십진분류

  KDC 840 DDC 820