The Theme of the Mother and the Development of Postmodern Western Thought in the Plays of Eugene O'Neill

虽然尤金·奥尼尔戏剧中的母亲大多被理解为自传性的，但它们与现代西方父权文化中不受尊重的母亲的重新赋权主题密切相关。在这个研究项目期间发表的一篇文章中，我在他最具自传性的戏剧《进入黑夜的漫长旅程》中讨论了这一问题。我还发表了一篇关于《冰人降临》的短文。主人公希基在没有母亲的适当保护下长大，最终杀死了他的妻子，本文将其分析为一部反映现代无母亲世界的悲喜剧。

Although "mothers" in Eugene O'Neill's plays have been understood autobiographically in most cases, they are deeply related to the theme of the re-empowerment of the Mother disrespected in modern patriarchal culture in the West. In an article published during this research project, I discussed it in his most "autobiographical" play, Long Day's Journey into Night. I also published a brief essay about The Iceman Cometh. The life of its main character Hickey, who was brought up without any proper protection of the Mother and eventually killed his wife, was analyzed as a tragicomedy reflecting the modern Motherless world in the essay.