LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:4 April 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
An Exquisite Messaging of the Moral Collapse of American Society

Ashaq Hussain Parray, M.A., M.Phil., NET/SET


Interrogating the Degrading Moral Precepts

American society was based on some pristine ideals. The ideas like perfect happiness, liberty and individualism, etc, were very dear to them initially. However, the subsequent developments show the gradual collapsing of these ideals, for which the Founding Fathers of America sacrificed their lives even. There have been attempts to expose this collapsing of the moral values by various fiction writers. Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harold Pinter and Edward Albee are famous especially for showing this stark reality of the American society. Edward Albee in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? brilliantly exposes the rot that has encrusted the moral fabric of American society. The play was performed in 1962. It very artistically interrogates the degrading moral precepts of the intellectual class of American society.

The Play - Critical Insight into the American Life

The play is set on the campus of a small, New England varsity. Its main characters are George, the husband, and Martha, the wife. In the first act, they expose each other's hallowed self-respect and intellect. They use Honey and Nick (their guests) as an audience to witness humiliation. In the second act, George and Martha even attack Honey and Nick, forcing them to reveal their true selves. Finally, in the last act, everyone's secrets have been disclosed and exorcised.


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Ashaq Hussain Parray, M.A., M.Phil., NET/SET
Assistant Professor in English
IUST, Awantipora
Jammu & Kashmir
India
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