Illusion and Absurdity in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf by Albee
Abstract
The paper explores the reality-illusion-absurdity matrix in Edward Albee’s play Who is Afraid of Virginia Woolf. The characters escape reality with various tricks. The absurdity of the play is that illusion, though destructive, is eagerly needed by the characters to fill the void in their massage and existence. Albee thinks that even though life is nothing we must have the courage to confront our emptiness.References
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