An Analysis of the Illusion and the Truth with the Depression of Human Beingthrough on Psychoanalysis Theory on“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee
An Analysis of the Illusion and the Truth WITH THE DEPRESSION
OF Human BEINGthrough on Psychoanalysis theory
On“WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?” by edward albee Chapter I
INTRODUCTION
1. A. Background of the Study
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a play work by Edward Albee. It was produced in New York in 1962. Actually, this era is the transition of modernism into postmodernism that using the absurdist paradigm in order to break the rules of modernism and found a new era. The theme of the story tells about human condition at that era with combined by Albee with theory of absurd. It was taken as a symbol to the 1960s American society.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was written during a period in American culture that seemed noisy clean on the surface, but was much darker underside its pretense. InWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Albee wants to show that people in their life should realize the truth to balance their dreams/illusion.Albee wants to say something profound about the human condition.Albee’s plays often show separated individuals who suffer because of unfair social or moral.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a story about illusions and reality/truth in human life.Ittells about the emptiness that surrounds and threatens to break our relationships.There are questions of vision, of dramatic truth and rightness.The story describes about the husband and wife (George and Martha), whose life is very much frustrated. They only argue all the time because their unsuccessful dreams. The violence could not let them in their partnership. They seem to be tired of arguing. This condition shows the common American’s society life style at that time. The work becomes a deeply satire for a woman (Martha) because she can’t reach her dreams. There is nothing (absurd) about Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. On the story, the action is more secret / unmeaning, and the messages are about depressionof the people’s mind and dejected. The
OF Human BEINGthrough on Psychoanalysis theory
On“WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?” by edward albee Chapter I
INTRODUCTION
1. A. Background of the Study
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a play work by Edward Albee. It was produced in New York in 1962. Actually, this era is the transition of modernism into postmodernism that using the absurdist paradigm in order to break the rules of modernism and found a new era. The theme of the story tells about human condition at that era with combined by Albee with theory of absurd. It was taken as a symbol to the 1960s American society.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was written during a period in American culture that seemed noisy clean on the surface, but was much darker underside its pretense. InWho’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Albee wants to show that people in their life should realize the truth to balance their dreams/illusion.Albee wants to say something profound about the human condition.Albee’s plays often show separated individuals who suffer because of unfair social or moral.
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a story about illusions and reality/truth in human life.Ittells about the emptiness that surrounds and threatens to break our relationships.There are questions of vision, of dramatic truth and rightness.The story describes about the husband and wife (George and Martha), whose life is very much frustrated. They only argue all the time because their unsuccessful dreams. The violence could not let them in their partnership. They seem to be tired of arguing. This condition shows the common American’s society life style at that time. The work becomes a deeply satire for a woman (Martha) because she can’t reach her dreams. There is nothing (absurd) about Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. On the story, the action is more secret / unmeaning, and the messages are about depressionof the people’s mind and dejected. The