作为“美国戏剧之父”的尤金·奥尼尔,以其特有的开拓精神,为美国乃至世界戏剧注入了新的活力。其戏剧创作特点之一是作者在主要作品中忠实而客观地再现了他的人生经历的重要片段。其中主要包括:尤金·奥尼尔一家家庭成员之间的难以言明的爱恨交织的情感经历以及他在青年时期经历的一些重要事件,如理想幻灭、自杀未遂及至被送往疗养院静养等。正是这一系列难忘的经历引发了奥尼尔关于人的身份的确立和个人在社会中的地位的思考。 Eugene O’Neill, the “father of American drama,” has injected fresh vitality into the theater in the United States and the world with its pioneering spirit. One of the characteristics of drama creation is that the author faithfully and objectively reproduces the important fragments of his life experiences in the main works. These include the unspeakable love-hate emotional experience between Eugene O’Neill’s family members and some of the important events that he experienced in his youth, such as ideal disillusionment, attempted suicide and being sent to a nursing home for rest. It is this series of unforgettable experiences that have inspired O’Neill’s thinking about the establishment of human status and the status of individuals in society.