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Biblical Themes in Eugen O'Neill's Plays

2013· article· en· W2750767414 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Wenhua Li

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian social science · 2013
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicCultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFaithMeaning (existential)PhilosophyDramaIrishDescendantLiteratureTheologyContemplationDoctrinePsychoanalysisReligious studiesPsychologyArtEpistemology
DOInot available

Abstract

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AbstractEugene O'Neill was born in a devout Catholic family. Young Eugene had fervently prayed to to heal his mother's drug addiction, but did not hear his prayers. Disappointed Eugene abandoned his Catholic faith at the age of fifteen, and began to explore a new god for replacing the old one since then. Eugene O Neill is an honest, sincere and compassionate dramatist; his works focuses on the meaning of life. Although European writers and thinkers, such as Freud, Jung, Shakespeare, Ibsen, Shaw, Chekhov, Synge, Conrad, Nietzsche and Strindberg exerted important influences on him in philosophy, psychology and drama, they could not bring him satisfaction and joy. O'Neill's exploration of the ultimate meaning of life had finally returned to the biblical doctrine. Through dealing with the recurrent themes in O'Neill's plays, this paper aims to point out that biblical doctrines are indispensable to O'Neill's plays.Key words: Sin; Evil; Desire; Truth; LightINTRODUCTIONEugene O'Neill was a descendant of Irish immigrants who were devout Catholics. When Eugene was seven, he was sent to Mount St. Vincent boarding school sponsored by the Sisters, and received the education of the orthodox doctrine. When Eugene was bom, his mother Ella was treated with morphine because of the difficult labour and finally became a morphine addict. Eugene fervently prayed to to cure his mother's drug addiction, but did not hear his prayers. At the age of fifteen, Eugene abandoned the Catholic faith-the values and beliefs that have united the Irish through the ages.O'Neill's abandonment of faith was also closely related with the times. In 1883, along with the German philosopher Nietzsche's enlightening declaration: God is dead the Bible as the center of the Western traditional values collapsed. Darwin's theory of evolution and the rapid development of science and technology further shook O'Neill's Catholic faith.For O'Neill, the loss of belief was not as simple as he imagined and his life always maintained a certain contact with God. O'Neill's father, James, often prayed for God's blessing in his last days. Furthermore, Biblical doctrines are the recurrent themes in O'Neill's works, and 0'Neill often declares that his most concern is the human relationship with God,1. THE LAMP OF THE WICKED WILL BE SNUFFED OUTBecause Adam and Eve were deceived into eating the forbidden fruit by Satan, they were banished from the Garden of Eden as a punishment. Sin spread rapidly in the beings. Selfishness, prejudice, arrogance, pride, evil, violence, oppression and hatred are the evidences of what the Bible calls sins. Because of sin,the beings trapped in a dilemma with no escape. When saw the beings getting entangled with corruptions, He felt heartbroken. Man is continually making efforts, such as good deeds, education or philosophy to get close to and the abundant life, but unfortunately he fails. is good and gracious, so sent His Son, Jesus Christ, to incarnate as a man to save His people. On the Cross, Jesus Christ died in our place to pay the penalty for our sins. Jesus' blood cleansed our sins,and he became the mediator for humans' returning to the embrace of as well as a bridge between and the beings .The pattern of sin-punishment-repentance- salvation in the Bible produces a profound influence on O'Neill's creation. It is clearly reflected in his expressionistic masterpiece The Emperor Jones. Jones was a black slave who suffered severe oppression and exploitation under white people. He was once auctioned like an animal at the market and then sent in a dark and smelly salve ship to the United States. After he arrived at the United States, Jones worked as a coolie on a train. He murdered Jeff because of gambling and was imprisoned. Being whipped by a jail guard, Jones was angry and killed the white guard and then fled to an island in the West Indies where he put the white man's greed and fraud values into practice. …

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.692
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0060.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.060
GPT teacher head0.294
Teacher spread0.235 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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