Martha returns in a “most voluptuous” dress and begins to openly admire Nick’s body and to discuss it, and at the same time, to ridicule both George’s position in the college and his physique. When Martha is about to begin on a boxing story after finding out that Nick was […]
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Scene iv is very short. Honey returns to tell the others that Martha is changing so as to be more comfortable. Honey wants to know more about George and Martha’s twenty-one-year-old son, and George is stunned to hear this news and threatens to get even with Martha in some way. […]
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With the departure of Martha and Honey, we begin scene iii with George and Nick who talk of George’s “dashed hopes,” the “musical beds” among the faculty, of their relative ages and ambitions, and of the differences between history and biology. The conflict in this scene is between two approaches […]
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Scene ii begins with the entrance of Nick and Honey and ends when Martha takes Honey to the bathroom, leaving George and Nick alone. With the entrance of Nick and Honey, who have heard Martha scream her invective, “Screw You,” Martha, Nick and Honey attempt some sort of diversionary conversations. […]
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Since Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a very long play with each act being rather lengthy, for the sake of critical discussion and explication, each act will be divided into scenes even though this was not done in the original play. The scenic division will follow the classic method […]
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George A forty-six-year-old professor of history in a small New England college who is married to the daughter of the president of the college. Martha George’s fifty-two-year-old wife, a domineering, discontented woman who alternately loves and reviles her husband. Nick A new arrival on the faculty who is about thirty […]
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Understanding the Theater of the Absurd Even though Albee’s Who’s Afraid of’ Virginia Woolf would not be strictly classified as belonging to the movement known as “The Theater of the Absurd,” there are, however, a great many elements of this play which are closely aligned with or which grew out […]
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Edward Albee was born on March 12, 1928, in Washington, D.C. He was adopted by very wealthy parents when he was two weeks old and was named after his adopted grandfather, Edward Franklin Albee, who was part-owner of a chain of theaters. This fact, however, seemingly has little relation to […]
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