Highlight of the Tragic Theme of “The Hairy Ape” by Expressionist Techniques

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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.

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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  -