Zusammenfassung der Ressource
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.