The American Dream?

In Edward Albee's play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Albee reveals the shallowness and meaninglessness of modern 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 …showed first 75 words of 982 total…

…showed last 75 words of 982 total…of Virginia Woolf, Edward Albee has been successful in conveying the falseness of “The American Dream.” He has taken western society as it is today as whole and has shown his audience the reality of the american dream in its true form. He has made clear that the american dream is only an illusion. The play is his, demonic urge to expose what he takes to be the falseness of the “American Dream.” ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**