"Whose afraid of Virginia Woolf?"-'What this play demonstrates is that power ultimately lies neither in physical strength nor in emotional pressure,but in communication'.To what extent do you agree?
Title: "Whose afraid of Virginia Woolf?"-'What this play demonstrates is that power ultimately lies neither in physical strength nor in emotional pressure,but in communication'.To what extent do you agree?
Category: /Literature/North American
Details: Words: 1986 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
"Whose afraid of Virginia Woolf?"-'What this play demonstrates is that power ultimately lies neither in physical strength nor in emotional pressure,but in communication'.To what extent do you agree?
Category: /Literature/North American
Details: Words: 1986 | Pages: 7 (approximately 235 words/page)
I agree to a large extent with this statement since the majority of emotional pressure on characters is caused by communication, and hardly any power is demonstrated by sheer physical strength and attributes in this play.
The three characters that power fluctuates to and from within the play are George, Nick and Martha. Honey is the frail, weak and innocent character of the play since most of the time throughout she's drunk and throwing up …showed first 75 words of 1986 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1986 total…to severe pain and hurtful feelings, also causing a lack of communication between the couple and hence a lack of positive emotional power for the better, and thus for the good.
Power also takes the form of the major themes of the play. The struggles are shown in and between the conflicting themes of Reality and Illusion, of Games and War, History and Biology, in The American Dream references and finally between Love and Hate.
