Albee Virginia Woolf
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The American Dream unveils a tortured family that is symbolic of the reality beneath the illusion where the American dream is concerned. 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 and as poisoned with the milk of human bitterness, cynicism and pessimism as is Woolf. The story regards George and Martha a married couple (he a history professor and she the University President’s daughter). Verbally and emotionally George and Martha are as skilled at cutting each other without going for the final kill as much as a professional torturer trained to prolong their victim’s agony. Into this volley of abuse come Nick and Honey, a young couple who also share a vision of the “American dream,” but Albee portrays Nick as the victor in his battles with George because George is of the old school and Nick has already been indoctrinated into the new American culture of capitalism for its own sake. The theme of the play, other than touching on the disillusionment of the American dream for the older generation, and a robotic-like acceptance of the evolved “capitalized” version by the older generation, is that each of the characters in the play, like each of us in real life, are destined to strugg
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page)
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