Albee

As the least highlighted character in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”, Honey is deliberately the most overlooked. Albee initially describes her as a “rather plain”, “petite blonde girl” who is about twenty-six years old. Unlike any other hair color, blonde locks have a distinct stereotypical association: the lack of intelligence. Though seemingly unimportant, this description is essential to the audience’s understanding of Honey. Her stage directions are the most simplistic of the four, revealing

these references could be seen on three levels. They first serve as potential conflicts between characters to push the play toward its climax. They are also used to reveal the true nature of characters in this play. Ultimately, they are means for Albee to express his concerns about a social problem, which, in my opinion, is the inequality between genders. In the first act of Albee’s play, the two couples are having their conversations friendly, yet as time goes by, Martha starts to make jokes about

day-to-day occurrence. This convention is represented by playwrights who are writing in a more colloquial voice with stories about the middle-class -or working-class, and their struggles. Naturalism gave birth to the works of Eugene O’Neill and Edward Albee that pushes the nuance of dysfunctionality and addiction to its extreme in works such as Long Day’s Journey Into The Night and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?. The two playwrights zoom in towards a domestic issue that were driven a lot by each character’s

In addition to the psychological causes, social factors are considered an important factor influencing human behavior, where the community, family, and the public factors have a significant impact on the look of the individual to the environment in which he live. Therefore, it is necessary to review the state of the American society and the individual in the period that these selected plays have been written. After the World War II, America faced a unique situation for seventy

George, an associate professor, and Martha, the daughter of the college president, continue their night of heavy drinking by inviting over guests the fine line between reality and imaginary begins to present. Through the use of twisted game playing, Albee reveals to the audience that what meets the eye is often an illusion, for the reality of the human condition is drastically different behind closed doors; ultimately, it becomes apparent that George and Martha, along with their guests Nick and Honey

‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?’ is a play of the absurd genre, written by Edward Albee in the late 1950s. Whilst ‘The Great Gatsby’ is a literary fiction, written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920s. Both texts use the American Dream to illustrate the corrupt culture of America in the 1920s and 1960s. The ‘American Dream’ was a term first coined by James Truslow Adams in 1931, in his book, ‘The Epic of America’. His idea of the American Dream was the ‘Dream of a land in which life should be better

setting is placed in New England, in a town called New Carthage, “right when I first came to New Carthage.” (George, Page 116) While these are allusions used by Albee to represent something bigger, with allusion meaning that it's an expression designed to call something to mind without mentioning it explicitly, an indirect reference which Albee was trying to get at which was the historical town itself, Carthage which is had a significance in the Punic Wars. George in the play makes his reference to the

to describe the theater that is created by some European and American playwrights who has appeared in the of late1950s and the early of 1960s such as Samuel Beckett (1906-89), Arthur Adamove (1908 – 1970), Harold Pinter (1930 – 2008), and Edward Albee (1928 - ). Through this term, Esslin tries to show the sense of loss and uselessness of existence in the world which the post-war dramatists have felt. This movement known as “The Theater of Absurd” is not an organized movement and has not any

marriages to hysterical pregnancies, the audience is exposed to the truths of the characters and are shown how living with these lies is only tearing them down. By applying the sociological lens to the novel Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee, the reader is better able to identify the overall theme of illusion. Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, a play widely known for its

Plays operate on a fine line between the imaginary world in which the play takes place, but also in reality as effects and the actors all have to follow the real world rules. Edward Albee blurs the lines of illusion and reality in his play 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' through the dynamic of the two couples in the story. Martha and George are in a failing marriage that is played off of by the couple Nick and Honey. The latter couple has a successful relationship despite Honey's lack of intelligence