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Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee 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 …

…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 it's true form. He has stated 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" (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? study guide). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**