The riddle of truth and illusion in Edward Albee's who's afraid of virginia woolf ?

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This study deals with the analysis of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? In search for illusion.

It stops at certain incidents in the play where we find out how Albee has set certain traps of truth and illusion without giving a solution.

He leaves the reader/ audience with a riddle of "what" and "why".

For instance, what is the illusion of the phantom, why did George and Martha create it? Why did they destroy it? What happened to Honey's pregnancies? Why are they afraid? What is the cause of their fear? Is it the Big Bad Woolf? Their own lives? Or reality in general? The study shows how Albee has made it impossible to distinguish reality from fantasy.

He presents us with both reality and illusion, yet they are entwined in such a way that they cannot be separated.