Who's Afraid Of Virginia Wolf

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What happened to her at the end?

>>By Jane   (Thursday, 5 Dec 2002 21:10)



can someone explain the movie to me


>>By carlosnwa   (Thursday, 16 Jan 2003 20:56)



The movie is about how two couples are trying to face life between illusion and reality. Everything in their life is illusion and all they do is play games. We don't really know if what they tell us its true or just apart of the crazy little game they are playing.

>>By BB   (Tuesday, 18 Feb 2003 04:02)



This movie depicts the similarity of three unrespected perspectives. Three women live their lives for their memory of youth and their trapping obligations to people they love in their present. The arduous feeling of imprisonment in one's own self is cleary well presented and causes one to think of life as,perhaps, just a perspective. "what are you living for?", "what makes you wake up every morning?". I strongly recommend that every patron of philosophy and perspective see this movie, if anyone would like to discuss it, my email is freihertz@hotmail.com

>>By niks   (Tuesday, 25 Feb 2003 13:12)



I don't think niks really knows what the play is about, since there are only two women characters in the story. BB's description though, is fairly accurate. As for the question of what happens to her at the end, assuming you mean the character Martha, she breaks down because their (George and Martha) private illusion of their son, (because Martha cannot actually concieve) has been destroyed. This is of course is only an ostencible description.

>>By Prf. Dahls   (Thursday, 13 Mar 2003 00:26)



I was told by a friend that the Movie of Virginia Wolf who committed suicide and Who's Afraid of Virginia are the same person. Where does the similarity in the name come in?

>>By ally   (Thursday, 13 Mar 2003 17:53)



could you plz tell me "element of absurd theater on this play or this move   (Saturday, 19 Apr 2003 15:57)



I agree witjprf. dahls. His synopses is accurate.
Danus

>>By danus   (Tuesday, 22 Apr 2003 18:28)



Trying to determine reality from illusion is , ofcourse, the story, but there's stories within stories and the overall view is that Martha and George have a sick, twisted, perverted and ever spinning relationship.

>>By star_is_born   (Sunday, 8 Jun 2003 14:47)



Just finished watching the film with Liz Taylor and Richard Burton. Forgive my ignorance of the play, but based on the screenplay, it seems that the first move in the couple's game is to invite over guest/s and then one of them brings up "the baby." From there, they tell stories that for some reason make their lives more interesting, like the boxing match and the "bergen" story. I would almost guess that this is Martha and George's (like the first first couple, the Washingtons) way of getting to know each other more intimately, like an erotic head trip. But, with the references to "centuries" and "hundred" and "thousand," the game has gotten old to them. And maybe, like Martha says "snap," they are getting too old to play this game. So, while Martha is playing the game as usual, perhaps because she could not imagine living her dull life without this game, it is George, in conversation with a young, verile woman who could conceive but chose to end that conception, who makes the connection between the abortion of the young wife's baby and the death of a sixteen year old illusion. That is why, when George asks Martha, at the very end, "All right?" Martha replies "yes" then immediately says "no." With nothing to divide them, no illusion of bad parenting or personal failure, they have only each other, the "two of us." Scary.

>>By MLG   (Monday, 16 Jun 2003 03:51)



there almost seems to be a religous overtone to the whole story...George as God, Martha as the Virgin Mary, their son as Jesus, and i think that Nick and Honey could represent society and how acceptant they are to what george and martha have to offer....just a thought

>>By miles   (Monday, 16 Jun 2003 09:47)



whoes afraid of virginia wolf is a play based on illusion vs reality.
Martha and George have a marriage that seems to be shallow, they constantly fight and they seemed to be married for all the worng reasons. Honey and Nick on the first impression have a marriage that appears to be much more stable and has alot of depth.
later in the play we discover that this is infact am illusuion. the game that is mentioned throughout is a game in which we discover the truth about the two couples. the child that Martha mentions is the thing that makes their marriage so strong and this is what martha clings on to.the fact George decided to kill off the son shows that he wants to bring martha back into reality. the fact martha at the end says "whoes afraid of virginia woolf...i am goerge i am" shows that the game is over and she has to be brought back to reality. giving her sanity..so their marriage s not as shallow as first thought. however Nick and Honeys marriage is very shallow sa he only married her beacuse she was believed to be pregnant which turned out to be psychosematic, however this is the only reason, there is not love in their marrigae. Honey hates sex and this stops them from being united properly as a couple..so at the start we believe that they are a very functional couple this however is not true. hence the illusion vs reality.

>>By SJ   (Saturday, 21 Jun 2003 21:11)



The two couples parallel each other-Nick /George, and Martha/Honey. However, Nick and Honey are a hallucination brought on by their lifes disappointments; notice that they obsurdly enter the story-late night, for a ridiculous ron de veou, and they leave as soon as they adventure through memory lane is over. Nick, as a young George is what George wanted for himself, success, rich family to marry into, etc. Likewise, Honey, and Martha.

>>By MMEL   (Monday, 23 Jun 2003 18:58)



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