Ethical Identities and Ethical Teaching Implication in “Emperor Jones”

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10.2991/assehr.k.210106.004How to use a DOI?

Keywords

“Emperor Jones”, Eugene O’Neill, literary ethical criticism, ethical context, moral ethics

Abstract

One of Eugene O’Neill’s representative works is “Emperor Jones”, and the core event in this play is black Jones’s flight at night. Through the use of play expressionism techniques such as the stage, sound, costumes, masks, and chorus, this play represents Jones’ ethical conflict and ethical dilemmas between his black race identity and white ethical awareness. This paper, from the perspective of literary ethical criticism, shows the formation of Jones’ black ethnic identity and his white ethical awareness by returning to the historical ethical context in which Jones lives, and reveals the tragic inevitability that Jones lost himself in the inevitable ethical conflict and went to split personality. The “Emperor Jones” not only reflects O’Neill’s unique aesthetic view of tragedy, but also realizes the function of tragedy as a literary form of ethical instruction.

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© 2021, 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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AU  - Mei Xie
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TI  - Ethical Identities and Ethical Teaching Implication in “Emperor Jones”
BT  - Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Arts, Design and Contemporary Education (ICADCE 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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SN  - 2352-5398
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