美国大剧作家尤金·奥尼尔,在被尊称为美国戏剧之父的同时,亦被盛赞在漫长的艺术生涯中起到了道德导师的作用,成为美国社会的良心,其缘由之一便是这个伟大灵魂通过剧作对信仰的终生觅求。奥尼尔出生在一个信奉天主教的爱尔兰家庭。十五岁时看到自己深爱的母亲遭受痛苦的折磨,他祈祷天主治愈他的母亲,而天主并未加以理睬,他开始萌生 Eugene O’Neill, the American playwright, is also praised as the moral tutor in the long artistic career and become the conscience of American society. One reason for this is that this great Through the play, the soul seeks for the life of faith. O’Neal was born in a Catholic Irish family. When I was fifteen, I saw that my beloved mother was bitterly tortured. He prayed that God should heal his mother, but God did not give it any attention.