" Edward Albee also used similes like "warm as toast.... The fourth theme is about the American Dream. ... " The point of both of these masterpieces by Edward Albee is mainly to show what was life like as a member of a middle-class white American family during the 1950s to 1960s. ... It successfully delivers a message that life in America is not perfect, that the American Dream is nearly impossible to reach. ... In conclusion, in the making of these plays, Edward Albee referred to the situation of normal, everyday lives of some families in America. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The character of Grandma in Edward Albee's The American Dream is for critics and audiences the most appealing, the most refreshing, and the wisest figure in the play. ... This surprising exit and her immediate crossing between the space of the action and the space of the theater can be anticipated because of her marginal position in the household, what Albee offers as an allegory for the "American Scene". Grandma ultimately represents the original American Dream, a dream, which is trying to be replaced by a newer, materialistic, corrupted, and finally distorted version of the American Dr...

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• Grade Level: High School

Relationships can come under a lot of strain because of outside influences such as family, societal and parental expectations as was the case in Edward Albee's characters in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" ... As the play progresses Edward Albee exposes that there is no such thing as a "perfect" marriage. ... There is even symbolism in George and Martha's name, symbolic in the sense that Albee chose those names to symbolise conventional America, the first president his and his wife, shattering the dream society has of marriage. "The Living Years" by Mike and The Mecha...

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• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Both Arthur Miller's "Death of a Salesman" and Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?... After the war, the American Dream, an ethos which offered the chance of wealth even to those who start with nothing, began to be misinterpreted. The great misconception was a person's inability to achieve the ideals of the American Dream must mean there are flaws in their personality. ... Both Albee and Miller use claustrophobic settings to explore the theme of truth and illusion. ... In contrast, Albee seems to comment on a "moral decline." ...

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• Approx Pages: 10