Cardiff of China Eastern Airlines describes a sailor's psychological struggle of waiting for his death in the cabin alone after being injured by an careless operation. The whole plot is full of strong tragic colors, from which we can vaguely see his early expressionist writing techniques. A modern tragic work inherits the creative elements of ancient Greek tragedy in writing techniques and maintains the continuity of tragic plot. This play is divided into three acts, each with two scenes, one indoors and one outdoors, and the two scenes appear alternately, showing the natural gap between ideal and reality. The work tells the story that Robert and Andy both fall in love with the girl next door, Luzhi. In the complicated emotional entanglements, the three parties all choose the result contrary to their fate, which finally leads to the tragedy of three lives. The play profoundly reveals the fatalism that people can't control their own destiny, as if all this is manipulated by a giant hand "beyond the horizon". O 'Neill is the most outstanding playwright on the American drama stage in the 21th century. His works perfectly embody the dual values of drama and literature, and have always been the most influential and box-office repertoire of Broadway, an authoritative American theater.
At the same time, O 'Neill is also an indefinable writer. The symbolism, expressionism and existentialism in his works are quite strong, but the theme of his works is very serious, with profound sociality and reality.
most of his works are based on the real life he is familiar with, and on this basis, he deeply analyzes the root causes of American social problems, so his plays have a living soul generally recognized by the public. However, he ignored the ways to solve the problems while asking questions, and his works were painted with the color of pessimism and mystery because of the grotesque, disorganized and ambiguous expressionism used to express these themes.
Expressionism is a relatively broad concept. Members who believe in Expressionism have almost no unified political beliefs and philosophical ideas, but most of them are deeply influenced by Kant's critical philosophy, Bergson's intuitionism and Freud's psychoanalysis.
Finally, we still end the whole article with the evaluation of O 'Neill by Holtaosmu, chairman of the Nobel Prize Committee: "O 'Neill's plays have a wide range, and have shown diverse personalities and fruitful results. Until recently, it still has abundant creative potential and is developing lively. His works, because of his free and unrestrained imagination, visualize his temperament and thinking from the depths of ideas. Wang Yang is arrogant and outstanding. O' Neill's creative spirit has always remained unchanged. "