Highlight of the Tragic Theme of “The Hairy Ape” by Expressionist Techniques
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Xiujin Qian
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Xiujin Qian
Available Online 28 November 2020.
- DOI
- 10.2991/assehr.k.201127.115How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- expressionism, visual effects, symbolism, interior monologue
- Abstract
“The Hairy Ape” is Eugene O’Neill’s masterpiece of expressionism and one of his representative works of experimental tragedy in his second dramatic career. This article explores the tragic fate of modern people who are homeless and rootless by analyzing various expressionist techniques used in the play, such as visual effects, symbolic techniques, inner monologues, masks, etc., thus highlighting the tragic theme of “The Hairy Ape”.
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- © 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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TY - CONF AU - Xiujin Qian PY - 2020 DA - 2020/11/28 TI - Highlight of the Tragic Theme of “The Hairy Ape” by Expressionist Techniques BT - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Education, Language and Inter-cultural Communication (ELIC 2020) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 577 EP - 581 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.201127.115 DO - 10.2991/assehr.k.201127.115 ID - Qian2020 ER -