![]() In this way he not only distorts his observations, but subverts his own powers, for it is not the riddles of philosophy that bring his talent to life, but the ways of cruelty and humiliation. ![]() Albee sees in human nature very much what Maupassant did, only he wants to talk about it like Plato. But this new play isn’t about the problems of faith-and-doubt or appearance-and-reality, any more than Virginia Woolf was about “the Decline of the West” mostly, when the characters in Tiny Alice suffer over epistomology, they are really suffering the consequences of human deceit, subterfuge, and hypocrisy. In Tiny Alice, the metaphysics, such as they are, appear to be Albee’s deepest concern-and no doubt about it, he wants his concerns to seem deep. ![]() ![]() In Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Edward Albee attempted to move beyond the narrowness of his personal interests by having his characters speculate from time to time upon the metaphysical and historical implications of their predicament. ![]()
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