Ephraim Cabot’s Puritanism as the Root of His Family Tragedy

• 作者: HUANG Li-hua
• 来源期刊: 文学与艺术研究:英文版
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: Eugene O’Neill Desire Under the ELMS Ephraim Cabot PURITANISM FAMILY TRAGEDY
• 年，卷（期）: wxyysyjywb_2018,（12）
• 页码范围: 1661-1668
• 页数: 8页
• 分类号: G633.41

摘要

On the surface,Desire Under the Elms is a tragedy of the Cabot family which borrows its plot from the ancient Greek tragedy and legend Hippolytus and Medea by Euripides and the Greek myth Oedipus by Sophocles,about lust,incest,Oedipus complex and infanticide,etc.enriched and elevated,however the root of all the tragedies in the family lies in Ephraim Cabot’s Puritanism.