Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf Essay

The play Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf was expertly written by Edward Albee in 1962. It is one of the most well regarded plays around today. Yet it doesn’t captivate me the way I expected. I have to say, I liked the acting of Martha and George in the LAVC Play Production. They did a really great job.

Matt McLaughlin was convincing as a man who has no choice but to say yes to anything his wife asks him to do. He executed the role of George really well and was one of the characters that I enjoyed watching on stage. I liked the anger, the insanity, and the sadness. The anger of being married to a vicious woman like Martha and the sadness that comes with humiliation and hope that one day she would learn to respect him and the insanity that claims George’s character. I think that when George told Nick a story about a boy who accidentally shot his Mother and caused his Father’s death, it was based

The significance of the particular type of flowers that George brings in to present to Martha is actually to rebuke her for what she did. It signaled that he was actually tired of what Martha keeps doing to him, that his heart almost died knowing his wife was in their bed with another man and not doing anything about it. That’s what he means when he said “Flores para los muertos” which means “flowers for the dead.” My interpretation of the “big reveal” between George and Martha on Act 3 was that the imaginary child that they were making was actually to fill up the void in their crumbling marriage through this obsession. When George was telling the story about how their son died, it was almost the same story that he told Nick about a boy who accidentally killed his Mother. I think George was trying to connect himself to the child. It might be that it had been their lifelong dream to have a child but their dreams died along with their faith in their