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AN EXPLORATION OF DESIRE UNDER THE ELMS BY EUGENE O’NEIL FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF ARCHETYPAL CRITICISM A Thesis Submitted to the School of Foreign Languages Shenyang Normal University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts By Miao Tingting Under the Supervision of Professor Fan Gexin June 2015 ABSTRACT Eugene O‟Neil is one of the greatest playwrights in America and is also been considered as the founder of American drama. Much influenced by the Greek mythology and the Bible as he is, his works are often highlighted with traces of Greek myth and Christian ideas. O‟Neil displaces and reconstructs the ancient myth and creates his modern plays. A majority of his plays are associated with conflicts between man and God with tragic elements. He devotes his whole life to digging out and scrutinizing the roots of modern tragedy. Based on the research and discoveries of Carl Jung, N. Frye and James Frazer, archetypes are representations of the human embodied experiences collected over thousands of years that we inherit from our ancestors generations by generations. They are the content of the collective unconscious, according to C. Jung and repeatedly occur in literary works as typical images and events. This thesis aims to study the archetypal characters, archetypal images and archetypal events in Desire Under the Elms of Eugene O‟Neil, with a thorough exploration of the