Symbolism In Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf

The Symbolism behind Who 's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Albee started his career of writing plays in New York where he became renowned for his work and received numerous awards for it. Albee is well known for his dramatic plays which one of them being Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf , which is centered around on the main couple being Martha and George. The couples get drunk and play games, but not ordinary games but games that take a whole new turn in the play. Albee portrays the characteristics of the fundamental aspects of symbolism throughout the play in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? three times which the first one being the representation of alcohol throughout the play, second one being Martha and Georges marriage …show more content…
Martha makes a harsh remark about George personality when she says “I swear…if you existed I’d divorce you…I haven’t been able to see you for years…you’re a blank, a cipher” (Albee, ). Martha is stating that she does not even know if George even exists due to his lack of personality and even if he had one she would divorce him either way. George follows up with an insult towards Martha when he says “I’ll hold your hand when it’s dark and you’re afraid of the bogey man… but I will not light you cigarette” (Albee ). George is embarrassing Martha in front of the guests with comment he just made. This evidently proves the amount of hatred George has towards Martha and that he would not think twice before reveals something embarrassing like that in front of guests. Both characters seem to hate …show more content…
Another example of the symbolism of children would be when Honey is on the bathroom floor from puking and Gorge describes how she looks, “Peaceful…so peaceful… sucking her thumb…rolled up like a fetus” (Albee ). When George saw Honey cradled in a fetus position it remind him of how a child would have looked and that George would have been able to seen it if he had a child. Martha is not the only one that is upset about not having a child, George is upset about as well to the point of where seeing Honey on the floor reminded him of a child. George and Martha of being not able to have a child of their own has really affected both their marriage and themselves, the reader would only realise this towards the end but despite all of this both of them make up for it as they treat each other like children or make comments that relate to children one way or another. Instead of telling the truth that they do not have a child, they use lies and cover up the truth thinking that no one will find out, but near the end Nick had a clue of what was going on between George and