Binary Oppositions in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Volume 1 Issue 1 Winter Edition 2021

Abstract

Aim: This paper delineates how Edward Albee allegorized layers of meaning in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? through Binary Oppositions. The binary opposition is the means by which the units of language have value or meaning. Each unit is defined in reciprocal determination with another term, as in binary code. The play received a Tony Award, a Drama Critics Circle Award and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. It startled mainstream audiences out of their comfortable notions of the American Dream and brought challenging theatre back to Broadway