In Albee's play, he reveals the shallowness and meaninglessness of contemporary society, and exposes the falsity of "The American Dream". In doing this he refers to many different facets of society such as alcohol, social conventions, measures of success and corruption on a number of levels. Violence manifested in both language and action, reflect the frustration of the characters in not being able to live up to society's expectations. "The America Dream" is a life lived to, or close to, perfection. In brief, this perfect life is achieved by having a good education, go into a well paying career of which you enjoy, raising a family with the 2.5 children, and then finally dying in piece without ever having to look back on your life with disappointment. It is said that whoever has goals and sets them are capable of achieving them as long as they are willing to work hard for it. But "The American Dream" is just what is says, it is just a "Dream". It is a dream dreamt by many. An i!

mmigrant coming to America or any western civilization has these dreams. The dream of being able to live a life of perfection, a life of freedom. Edward Albee takes this "American Dream" and conveys it in it's

true form in his play, Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?. In writing this play, he exposes the falseness of "The American Dream" and shows the audience of what this "Dream" really consists of. When asked of what exactly "The American Dream" is, people often reply with uncertainty and doubt in their answers. "The American Dream" does have it's definition, but since it is only a "dream", reality in comparison is almost an exact opposite. Persons who are not familiar with this reality and still dream this dream, has been falsely informed, and do not know what the reality is. This reality is full of illusion, falseness, and deceit. In his play, Albee takes western society as a whole and places it under one household. He shows what western society is through his characters. He !

wants and to get to it they must follow a blueprint. This blueprint is Martha's father. He is someone who is looked up to by others and these others try to replicate him. His steps should be followed directly and if so, there you have "The American Dream". But followers aren't always successful in the following of the blueprint. Their inability to do so may include many factors. Not many people know that "The American Dream" require more than just pure effort. There are other things which cannot be controlled. It is said that as long as you give all of yourself, you will succeed. But what if your all is not enough. This is the case with George. "... he was ... A great big flop" As the daughter of "The American Dream", Martha has taken life and reality very lightly. She is without real care and believes that she does not need to follow the blueprint of "The American Dream". She doesn't put in the effort and therefore lives life and reality with a lot of instability. She is onl!

their son to get at each other's throats instead of having to do it directly. But Martha becomes so immensely involved in her "reality" that she has created which has combined true reality with hers that in the end, she has confused herself in that she is no longer to tell the difference between the true reality around her an

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