Eugene O’Neill’S Tragic Vision Is Largely Based on His Influence from Such Great Writers As Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides, Dante, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Cervantes, Melville, Tennessee Williams, Kafka, Camus, Samuel Beckett, and Others. In Order to Have an Explicit Idea of What O’Neill’S Conception of Tragic Vision Is Based On, We Shall First Know the Origin of the Concept of Tragedy. In His Book the Birth of Tragedy, Nietzsche Brought Forth His Conception of Tragic Vision In the Form of Two Energiesforces-- Dionysian and Apollonian. O’Neill’S Tragic Vision Is Often Said to Be the Product of His Ill Health, His Habitual Alcoholic Brother, Jamie, and the Uncaring Attitude of His Mother During the Early Period of His Life. O’Neill’S Long Day’S Journey into Night Is a Perfect Example of It. O’Neill Tried to Adapt Greek Tragedy into a Twentieth Century Model. One Very Important Aspect of O’Neill’S Tragic Vision Is the Conception That the Mysterious Structure of Man’S Mind Itself Is Responsible For Its Tragedy. In His Search For Identity, Man Moves Out In Society and Confronts Problems. In the Hairy Ape, Yank’S Mind Is All Split Up As a Result of the “Inner-Outer” Struggle, Which Threatens His Very Existence. the Evolution of Tragic Vision In O’Neill’S Plays Seems to Be Similar to That of Shakespeare’S, Both of Whom Followed the Pattern Adopted By Dante In His Divina Commedia, and Both Employed Double Vision Lending a Complexity to the Characters and Themes Coupled With the Typic ...