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such as “amazing” and “extraordinary,”Albee highlights the feelings associated with having sexual relations with a goat and Martin’s satisfaction is clearly conveyed to readers. Also, he suggests that being with Sylvia made him feel a new and unique way, which illustrates that it is the missing component to the happiness in his life. Therefore, the goat symbolizes the missing piece in Martin’s life and the inner desires and fantasies in the American Dream. Albee uses the goat as a symbol to express

Edward Albee, a famous American Playwright, was born on March 12, 1928 and grew up in Westchester County, New York. Albee grew up with his adoptive parents and left home at the age of 18, due to conflicts with his adoptive parents and a suffocating environment. Although, his adopted family was very wealthy and owned multiple theatres, he felt very distanced. However, because he was his family owned theatres, he was exposed to that realm and idea, which he later found a passion with. Albee’s love

guys examples of rhetorical strategies using two pieces of text. The first piece of text is by Edward Albee and it is titled The Goat, Or Who Is Sylvia. The text is about a family going through turmoil. Martin, a married man with a gay son, reveals that he is in love with a goat by the name of Sylvia. His love for Sylvia ultimately ruins his relationship with his family. The author of this book, Albee, is known for being an American playwright director. He has written several plays about relationships

States changes, and the connotation and reality of the American Dream is disheartening. Two literary compositions give a realistic outlook on what the American Dream really is. In Death of a Salesman and The American Dream, Arthur Miller and Edward Albee masterfully relay the true nature and ideologies of The American Dream. In theory, the “American Dream” is the idea that every person residing in the United States of America should live a richer and fuller life, regardless of the class one is born

“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” by Edward Albee is a play that addresses a variety of failures through it’s rather dysfunctional characters. Albee indicates the failures within American Society; The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and the tensions between the East and the West. The political reflections by Albee are made through the characters of George and Nick, with George seemingly representing George Washington the first American president and Nick representing Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union

enough with African-American issues and the SSSR and Albee, and his followers wrote some plays in response to the existing situation and American values. In his famous work Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Albee critically examined institutions and values that Americans held dear – family, marriage, success and glory, for instance – and proposed they might have taken as shelter to escape from reality (Adams1985: 2). Through his plays, Albee struggles enough to prove his skillful as a dramatist;

it America's "best example of what has come to be known as 'the theatre of the absurd.'"2 The shrewdest assessment of absurdism in Albee is by Brian Way, who shows convincingly that, although Albee has successfully mastered the techniques of theatrical absurdism, he has nevertheless shied away from embracing the metaphysics that the style implies.3 That is, Albee knows that Theatre of the Absurd is "an absorption-in-art

Reality versus Illusion in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?        In his play, The American Dream, Edward Albee unveils a tortured family that is symbolic of the reality beneath the illusion of the American dream.  In Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Albee takes a more traditional approach than the theater of the absurd, and his language is more natural, but he returns to this theme with a vengeance.  For in all of drama there are few plays about domestic relationships that are as caustic, violent

dies for each mistake caused by him. Appearance of a young man at the end of the play who seemingly appears to be the American Idol but emotionally he is empty and is a clear vision of American superficiality. Albee was himself adopted by a millionaire couple namely Reed and Francis Albee; he did not meet up to their expectations as he struggled through various institutes and colleges intil finally he eventually turned to writing plays. The American Dream though labeled as the absurd drama has come

“You’re a blank, a cipher… a zero.” (Albee, 1962, p.18). With these words, Martha the main character in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” showed her husband, George, that he was nothing. Edward Albee, the writer of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” talked mainly about Martha and George who pretend to have different identities just in order not to face reality. Moreover, Arthur Miller, the author of “A View from the Bridge” presented the idea of identity in a different way. Miller used the character