Albee

Unlike many successful writers, the childhood of Albee was not one of deprivation. On the contrary, Albee was adopted at the age of two weeks by a millionaire family. From that point on he knew a life of wealth and privilege. He resided with his family in Westchester, New York. His childhood experience was quite remote from that of many writers who knew squalor and deprivation. As one magazine article said regarding his childhood years, “It was a time of servants, tutors, riding lessons, winters in Miami, summers sailing on the Sound: there was a Rolls Royce to bring him, smuggled in lap robes, to matinees in the city; an inexhaustible wardrobe housed in a closet as

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ee’s characters are portrayed as desperate individuals who play cruel psychological games. However, they are often manipulated as much as they manipulate and as destructive as they are destroyed. Where women are concerned, Albee generally portrays women as domineering emotional vampires, perhaps best characterized by Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? American producers were not initially keen on Albee’s brand of satire and examination of values, so The Zoo Story was first produced in Berlin. While Albee was considered the leading American exponent of the Theater of the Absurd, his particular worldview did not encompass the belief common to the leaders of the movement, “The leaders of this movement were concerned with the human struggle to come to terms with the reality of a senseless world. Albee essentially established the American version of absurdist theater with his stinging critique of popular culture that he felt reflected a dangerous complacency in the American theater. However, unlike his European counterparts Albee does not believe that man is at hopeless odds to change his world” (Artists 1). One of Albee’s main targets of attack in his works was the American dream. A Delicate Balance is a wide-awake a
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Approximate Pages = 6 (250 words per page)

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