Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?

1. Sex Theme

   • -Sex and infidelity are mostly used as weapons
     • -Characters commit sexual acts or threaten them as way of gaining power over each other
       • -These attemps at true intimacy are short lived
         • -Sex is a tool for battle
           • The sex life that George and Martha have is almost inexistance. At the beggining of the play George did not even want to kiss her
           • Nick might want to sleep with Martha because she is the daughter of the university director and he looks forward to rise in the Biology Department.
           • Honey is portraited as a character who is not very intelligent. That's why she does not realises that Nick and Martha are flirting each other.
           • George rejects Martha´s sexual advances because the relationship is devastated. They had been together for a long time and Martha is very insistant, as a consequence, George is tired.
           • Martha says in the play that she has a would be infidelities. Probably as she been unfaithful to George with Nicky, she done with many others.

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