尤金·奥尼尔的清教观是复杂的、变化的。他对清教主义既有批判,又有认同。他在其前期剧作中将清教物质主义作为人类的异己力量与自然人性直接对立、冲突,强烈地抨击了清教主义对人性的腐蚀与毁灭以及对人本能欲望的压抑与戕害。在其后期剧作中,随着他的宗教思想的发展变化,他又表现出对清教主义思想的认同。他笔下的主人公们以及他自己在宗教的忏悔与宽恕中找到了精神的归宿与人生的出路。而且,清教主义思想也有机地融入了他的悲剧创作,成为其悲剧艺术中的一个要素。 Eugene O’Neill’s Puritanism is complex and changing. He has both the critique of Puritanism, but also agree. In his early dramas, Puritanism, as the alien force of mankind and natural humanity, confronted and clashed violently, criticizing the Puritanism’s erode and destruction of human nature and the repression and harm to human instinct desire. In his later dramas, with the development and change of his religious thought, he showed his approval of Puritanism. The protagonists in his works, as well as himself, have found spiritual endings and ways out of life in religious confession and forgiveness. Moreover, Puritanism also organically integrated into his tragedy, as an element of his tragedy art.