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Susan Raheem Rahman Jaf

Bio: Susan Raheem Rahman Jaf is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Psychoanalysis & Unconscious mind. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 4 citations.

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TL;DR: In this article Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? exposes the plunge of moral values of the American family in the modern society in which materialism is Victorious.
Abstract: Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Exposes the plunge of moral values of the American family in the modern society in which materialism is Victorious. The play shows the deceptive appearances and moral disintegration of George and Martha. This paper attempts to outline the American dream and how the characters accept illusion as an escape from real life. The initial part provides us withsome information about the writer’s life and how he is influenced by the theater of the absurd, and the impact of the psychological approaches on Albee’s way of writing .The paper also proposes Albee as a modern playwright to recall and explain the community problems that help modern readers to understand his crises and his tragedy form. Superficially, the play seems to be about the illusion but in fact it examines and presents crises of the modern American values and their way of life. Thus, the play discloses the theme of illusion and social American crises through the bond of marriage of the two couples.

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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors identify the cause of corruption of human soul through analyzing the British novelist Cormac McCarthy's The Road, which will illustrate the human struggle for survival under a circumstance in which the law collapses and the ethics that are the basis of human interaction for the permanence of life.
Abstract: With his psychoanalytic theory, Sigmund Freud asserts that human behavior mostly occurs in the subconscious part of the brain. This theory leaves many questions for those interested in studying human behavior, as it leaves many questions for them. One of the most important of these questions is can a person really control his behavior? Freud's theory of the unconscious divides it into three drives: the id, the ego, and the superego. Ed is the most aggressive behavior in humans. The super ego is the part responsible for the moral aspect that pushes a person to do well. As for the ego, it is that part of the dengue that strives to find a middle ground between the id and the superego. Thus, the current study aims to identify the cause of corruption of human soul through analyzing the British novelist Cormac McCarthy’s The Road. It will illustrate the human struggle for survival under a circumstance in which the law collapses and the ethics that are the basis of human interaction for the permanence of life disappear. It also sheds light on how to solve this problem. It should be noted that the study is formatted in APA (8) writing style in discussing the study and documenting the primary and secondary resources.

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01 Dec 1990
TL;DR: The emphasis on illusion and reality in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? results from Albee's concern with better self-government, a better society, in a world which is isolated from reality, he thinks, man fails to face reality and to deal with it without being overwhelmed and destroyed as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The emphasis on illusion and reality in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? results from Albee's concern with better self-government, a better society, In a world which is isolated from reality, he thinks, man fails to face reality and to deal with it without being overwhelmed and destroyed. The only kind of human contact is the abusive insults which substitute for both ordinary communication and even for sexual union. So the characters in the play resort to the false illusion in order to avoid the pain and invariable disappointment inherent in facing reality. The message of the play carries a strong political theme, although it is less explicitly stated. Albee thinks of the United States as a revolutionary society and the revolution is supposed to be a continuing one, one of the few very slow revolutions that is not bogged down in bereaucracy and totalitarianism. But the modem Americans are the sterile people who lack the frontier spirit and the power of activity which the past generation had. Albee inserts several powerful allusions; New Carthage, the name of the town and college is an allusion to the ancient city of Carthage which was destroyed by the Romans, and George and Martha are clearly meant to be George and Martha Washington, and Nick to be Nikita Khruschev. In New Carthage as America, they are the generation of deformity, comparing to their past generation, men of God, who had the powerful nationalistic spirit. Therefore, they escape from reality and create the false illusion for fear that they cannot afford to inherit the spiritual achievements of the past generation. It is through the games that they avoid the pains and fear. The games are Blemish, Humiliate the Host, Get the Guests, Hump the Hostess and Bringing Up Baby. George and Martha live in a world which revolves around a central illusion. the imaginary child. The Game, Bringing Up Baby, reflects the distorted principles of American revolutions and political society and suggests that the false political illusions and the powerful paternal power, in some sense, be destruction. Now they cannot live under the false illusions and they need the 'rites de passage' through the Exorcism because the game is over. Illusion and decay in politics are pervasive malignites which make their effects known wherever and whenever men are forced to confront reality. Though the play does not suggest the dear alternative in politics, Albee has the positive and optimistic view on our future through the rite of maturation, the death of the imaginary child

27 citations