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What Are The Flaws In Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?

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Flaws within the Perception of the American Dream The Modernist era provided an inordinate fortuity for authors as well as other composers of art to express pieces conveying ambiguous ideologies and meanings. A representation of such ambiguous work is conveyed through Edward Albee and his contemporary American theatre piece, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. According to Dr. S. C. Mundra, one of the main characteristics of absurdism is “Reality is unbearable unless relieved by dreams and illusions.” This is evident in Albee’s life as well as expressed through his American play. Albee did not have a nurturing childhood, which consisted of a cold, domineering mother and a distant, uninvolved father. In Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, it is plausible …show more content…

The Modernist era allowed Albee an opportunity to express his discontentment with his adoptive parents through the death of George and Martha’s son, correlating to the disconnected relationships between Albee and his parents. Albee conducts the false presumption of the “American Dream” through the metaphor of History and Biology, the illusion of the perfect symbolic son of George and Martha’s, as well as the characterization of Nick and Honey as the immaculate couple. Upon new days, discoveries are made and science continues to grow expeditiously. Every day, scientists are able to gather new information that helps further mankind. It is seen to be an incredible capability of the human mind, however, how have scientists come so far? New information is upheld from old discoveries. History has provided steps in order for new Biologists to discover incredible findings. Which field of study has the upper hand on the other? In Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, it is seen to be an arguable debate between the two male characters, Nick and George. George is seen to represent the past, which correlates to History, and his concept of the

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