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Modern man had lost his faith and his sense of belonging which once were the concomitants of his primitive oneness with nature. This sense of alienation caused a factor of conflict. Despite material richness and comfort he lost his sense of self and life's meaning. The complexity of society and the development of science decreased both the degnity of man and his sense of belonging. He is eager to belong to something which may help him to recover his sense of alienation. Eugene O'Neill's plays reveal a keen sense of loss of connection whth God, nature, society, and family. For Q'Neill the first factor of his sense of alienation was real and psychological homelessness. The second was his unconquerable obsession as an unwanted child who could not belong. The third was his sense of loss and betrayal from his mother. Through his plays O'Neill endeavored to find the oneness and the sense of belonging in his family. He tried to belong to sumething and find an affirmative and reliable answer. For O'Neill traged is fatalistic. Though his characters seem to be hopeless, this tragic thing is real and has meaning. O'Neill's tragic view is that the noblest is the most tragic forever. In a word, O'Neill's philosophy is a theory that hope can be drawn from hopelessness, and a belief that physical defeat itself can be success from a mental point of view. Through inner reflection man can gain the deepest world of life. All man can really hope to belong to is himself. His sickness unto death is not his sense of alienation and anxiety, but his lack at willing to be oneself. He must create his own values and impose upon his universe whatever significance and whatever order he expects to adopt as a reason of being. Self-recognition through the acceptance of reality in both Desire under the Elms and All God's Chillun Got Wings is ture salvation. For the people who, having lost God, have no way leading to salvation, pity, comprehension, and love are absolutely necessary things to get salvation among them. As long as man's life lasts, though he is lost, the hope to belong to still remains.