Analysis Of The Poem Albee - 1520 Words

such as â€Å"amazing† and â€Å"extraordinary,†Albee highlights the feelings associated with having sexual relations with a goat and Martin’s satisfaction is clearly conveyed to readers. Also, he suggests that being with Sylvia made him feel a new and unique way, which illustrates that it is the missing component to the happiness in his life. Therefore, the goat symbolizes the missing piece in Martin’s life and the inner desires and fantasies in the American Dream. Albee uses the goat as a symbol to express the American Dream from a unique perspective. The American Dream is often thought to be the â€Å"white picket fence life,† so when Albee uses the goat to symbolize the American Dream, he generates entertainment and interest in readers because of it’s unusual representation. Also, having the goat represent inner desires and fantasies appeals to the audience through pathos because of the humorous idea. Without the use of a goat as symbolis m, Albee’s argument would not be as strong because to readers, his play would only appear to be about having sexual relations with a goat. By using symbols, Albee strengthens his argument because he is able to depict the role of inner desires and fantasies in the American Dream. Although both authors use symbolism, they differ in how they suggest money influences the American Dream. Thompson claims that money solves problems. To support his claim, Thompson uses the strategy of exemplification to express the power of money in Las Vegas. He uses anShow MoreRelatedAn Analysis of the Illusion and the Truth with the Depression of Human Beingthrough on Psychoanalysis Theory onâ€Å"Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?† by Edward Albee2738 Words   |  11 PagesAn Analysis of the Illusion and the Truth WITH THE DEPRESSION OF Human BEINGthrough on Psychoanalysis theory Onâ€Å"WHO’S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF?† by edward albee    Chapter I INTRODUCTION    1. A.  Ã‚  Ã‚   Background of the Study Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was a play work by Edward Albee. It was produced in New York in 1962. Actually, this era is the transition of  modernism into postmodernism that using the absurdist paradigm in order to break the rules of modernism and found a new era.Read MoreAugust Wilson3685 Words   |  15 Pagesin America.2 His list of awards contains tittles such as: the McKnight, Bush, Rockefeller and Guggenheim Fellowships, the Drama Desk Awards, and the Chicago Tribunes Artist of the Year. He has received several New York Circle Awards, the Edward Albee Last Frontier Playwright Award, the Whiting Foundation Award, and the Jerome Fellowship. His play Fences was the first play in 30 years to win all of the major awards. In 1984, Wilson was invited to join the New Dramatists, which, founded in 1949,Read MoreAlice Malsenior6001 Words   |  25 Pages Alice Walker’s writing career would surge in the 1970’s with the publishing of her first novel, The Third L ife of Grange Copeland (Smith, Jessie). The predominant issues and themes of her writings were civil rights based. Many of her stories and poems focus on rape, sexism, racism, violence, segregation and relationship problems. It would later be openly announced that Alice Walker had a bi-sexual orientation (Bates, Alice Walker: A Critical Companion). In 1973, Alice Walker joined Ms. MagazineRead MoreQuestions On Semantics And Pragmatics8833 Words   |  36 Pageswhich usually refers to a type of drama which dominated West-European literature between the years 1940-1960 and is most often associated with the names of famous writers, Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, Jean Genet, Harold Pinter, Tom Stoppard, Edward Albee, Arthur Adamov, Fernando Arrabal, Friedrich Durrenmatt, Witold Gombrowicz, Slawomir, Mrozak, Vaclav Havel and many other less famous playwrights , however as many chacterization of genre attempts to encompass its abstract relation and phenomena, this