尤金·奥尼尔一生着力于现代心理悲剧的创作,以写实的手法展现了二十世纪美国人民灵魂扭曲的可悲心态和美国现代社会的精神窘困的可忧状况,表达了对人生理想之梦的努力探索和幻灭。本文以《榆树下的欲望》为例,从人物内心欲望困扰、社会批判意义及悲剧的终极价值三方面来探讨其显性的、隐性的及终极的悲剧主题。 Eugene O’Neill devotes his life to the creation of modern psychological tragedies. By realistic means, he demonstrated the distorted sad mentality of the American people in the twentieth century and the distressing anxiety of the modern American society. He expressed his dream of the ideal of life Efforts to explore and disillusionment. Taking “Desire under the Elms” as an example, this article explores its dominant, implicit and ultimate tragedy themes from three aspects: inner desire of the heart, critical significance of society and the ultimate value of the tragedy.