scholarly journals Logic Images in Edward Albee’s The American Dream

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-63
Author(s):  
Mohanad Naeem Hulaib ◽  
Lajiman Janoory ◽  
Jihad Jaafar Waham
Keyword(s):  
American Dream ◽  
Edward Albee

The "American dream" is known to be the model of opportunity, an indication of America's exceptional destiny, where one and all can welcome himself and get what he merits. Tragically, the fantasy of Edward Albee in the play composed by him in 1960 ended up being very a long way from this thought. In the play, Albee obliterates the picture of his incredible nation. He appears the American dream even with an attractive, yet a rationally mangled Young Man, without the capacity to cherish, accept, trust, however, is prepared to do anything for cash. So the Young Man gets the wealthy Mommy and Daddy with the main aim of getting cash, regardless of how however much as could be expected. Yet, surprisingly his entry in their home uncovers the mystery that the bosses kept for their entire lives. When they had embraced a kid - his twin sibling - and he began hollering with great swears. At that point the guardians did not falter to assuage him (directly in the soul of "dark amusingness"), they put out his eyes, tore out his hands, hauled out his tongue. At the point when the receptive youngster finally kicked the bucket, his sibling on the opposite part of the bargain encountered a religious passing: his heart all of a sudden wound up numb, he was as though torn from his body, and from that point forward he can't love, feel empathy or some other emotions.

scholarly journals Absurdism in Atirikta Yatra by K. S. Yatri and The American Dream by Edward Albee

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-34
Author(s):  
Tika Data Subedi
Keyword(s):  
American Dream ◽  
The Self ◽  
The Other ◽  
Human Being ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Edward Albee ◽  
The Status

The purpose of this work is to study Edward Albee and K. S. Yatri’s approach regarding the status of respective societies of America and Nepal with absurd drama following their agenda. K. S. Yatri and Edward Albee seemed to be influenced by the absurdist mode of drama which concerns much about the modern existence of social human beings. Albee follows absurdist traces in the dramatization of uncertainty, alienation and the question of freedom in The American Dream. His characters do not have fixed identities, and they suffer from their individual problems. The notion of the characters and their activities too are uncertain. In the same way, the ambiguity of existence, whether the characters really are or not, is a problem for the characters in Atirikta Yatra. The characters are based on illusions, and the line between the reality and fantasy is missing. Alienation of the human being from the self and the other is existential theme that K. S. Yatri deals with in Atirikta Yatra. Alienation in the play is caused by the lack of communication, and as a result, the isolated self is entrapped in Yatri’s characters due to their own condition. Freedom becomes a confusing question in his works as it makes the characters anxious while choosing one option among various others on their own, and it renders the characters responsible for their free choices. Though, two texts belong to divergent space however both show how absurdism has affected individuals and society everywhere at present.

scholarly journals American Dream or Avaratia: Critical Circumspectis of American Dream Through Ages

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 57
Author(s):  
Faiza Zaheer ◽  
Kamal ud Din
Keyword(s):  
Jacques Derrida ◽  
American Dream ◽  
The Other ◽  
Edward Albee ◽  
American Drama ◽  
Founding Fathers ◽  
Basic Purpose ◽  
Post War ◽  
American Society

This paper is an attempt to apply Jacques Derrida’s theory of Deconstruction to American Dream and its treatment in the language of Edward Albee’s play American Dream and other American Playwrights. Different deconstructive terms have been applied to understand and analyze the language of Albee’s The American Dream. Deconstructive terms; Différance, Erasure and Aporia have been applied to the language used by Albee to analyze the concept of American dream and its relation to its context of old American Dream as envisaged by the founding fathers and the new American Dream as defined by James Truslow Adams. These deconstructive terms will help readers to understand the themes and language of postmodern and post war American drama in general and those of Albee’s in particular. This, in turn, makes the reader realize that American dream as depicted in modern American Playwrights is materialistic, illogical, futile and bizarre: Albee’s play reflects modern American society and its sensibility. Language of modern is simple yet it communicates multi-faceted interpretations and those interpretations have been explored in the light of all these deconstructive terms. The basic purpose of involving these deconstructive terms in analyzing the language of Albee’s The American Dream and the other major postmodern American plays is not only to understand the mutability and fluidity in the diction but also to expose absurdity and apparent meaninglessness in it.

Is the American Dream Incompatible With Racial Equality?

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (9) ◽  
pp. 879-880
Author(s):  
David O. Sears
Keyword(s):  
American Dream ◽  
Racial Equality

Spiraling Into Madness: Selling the American Dream

PsycCRITIQUES ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 50 (46) ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent W. Hevern
Keyword(s):  
American Dream

Dream Denied

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Soyer
Keyword(s):  
African American ◽  
American Dream ◽  
African American Men ◽  
Offending Trajectories ◽  
Minority Men

A Dream Denied: Incarceration, Recidivism, and Young Minority Men in America shows how the narrative of American dream shapes the offending trajectories of twenty-three young Latino and African American men in Boston and Chicago. Believing in the American dream helps the teenagers cope with the pains of incarceration. However, without the ability to experience themselves as creative actors, reproducing the rhetoric of American meritocracy leaves the teenagers unprepared to negotiate the complex and frustrating process of desistance and reentry.

: An American Dream .

1966 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 59-60
Author(s):  
Stephen Farber
Keyword(s):  
American Dream
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