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Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
- 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.
- 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
- -Sex is a tool for battle
- -These attemps at true intimacy are short lived
- -Characters commit sexual acts or threaten
them as way of gaining power over each other
- -Sex and infidelity are mostly used as weapons
- Dissatisfaction Theme
- George and Martha
- George and Martha's dissatisfaction with each
other is clearly reflected by the way and the
amount of time they spend fighting. During
those fight it's when the reader sees their
deepest and harshest feelings from one
another.
- Martha is also dissatisfied
with herself.
- The fact that she
doesn't have a baby
torments her so much
that she managed to
create an imaginary
child in order to fullfill
her feeling of emptyness
- Martha is probably unhappy
because she knows George
really did love her and even
though all these years have
gone by, she was never able to
love him back.
- The fact that she
doesn't have a baby
torments her so much
that she managed to
create an imaginary
child in order to fullfill
her feeling of emptyness
- Martha is also dissatisfied
with herself.
- George and Martha's dissatisfaction with each
other is clearly reflected by the way and the
amount of time they spend fighting. During
those fight it's when the reader sees their
deepest and harshest feelings from one
another.
- Nick and Honey
- Nick is unhappy due to the fact that
honey's hysterical pregnancy has "tied"
him to a relationship from which he
doesn't seem to like being a part of.
- Nick is also dissatisfied with his current job. The
fact that George hasn't been promoted in his whole
life makes him believe the same will happen to
him, and he'll end up as unhappy and depressed as
George now is.
- Nick is unhappy due to the fact that
honey's hysterical pregnancy has "tied"
him to a relationship from which he
doesn't seem to like being a part of.
- Can dissatisfaction
be a good thing?
- Not during the play, but when people
use it as a tool in order to be
motivated and improve, it can be
helpful.
- Not during the play, but when people
use it as a tool in order to be
motivated and improve, it can be
helpful.
- George and Martha
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