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Martha was morbidly attached to her father in a way which has precluded happiness with her husband. Parenthood and childlessness are also prominent themes in the play. The conflict also reveals Nick to be a grasping and unprincipled man, and we find that he has deserved the exposure and humiliation he has received at the hands of George. George is also prompted to reveal Nick’s secrets by their conflict with each other. In the case of George and Martha, it is their quarrel which precipitates his decision to end the fantasy of their child. Conflict is also the means by which truth and illusion are separated.
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The play is full of boxing metaphors, most of which are used to describe married life, and many come from Martha, who is surprisingly knowledgeable on the subject, and even uses technical phraseology. They explain the rows between them as “exercise”. The quarrels in which George and Martha engage, are not merely the product of drunkenness and illnature.
The theme of conflict is also significant in the play.
This is the truth he has to face, while Honey has to come to terms with her reluctance to bear children. He has to face public discomfiture at the hands of George, whom he despises for his lack of moral fibre. Nick’s total disloyalty to this relationship is exposed when he is ready to reveal their relationship to a total stranger, and be unfaithful to her when she is in the same house, with the aim of advancing his career. It is hinted, but never made clear, that the pregnancy which enforced their marriage was a real one, secretly terminated by Honey. In addition, their present childlessness is not, as they present it, that of a young couple who have not had time to settle down, but is the result of secret abortions on Honey’s part. The truth is that there is a squalid background to their marriage due to his being trapped into it by her supposed pregnancy, and also because he agreed to it because of the ill-gotten money she had inherited. For Nick and Honey, the illusion here is their image as a presentable and promising couple. The psychological impact of the circumstances and the manner in which he does this is such that there is no question of the fiction being revived, and they are forced to face life together as it is, and not take refuge in what might have been. She breaks the rules by revealing the truth to strangers, and he in turn puts an end to it by publicly announcing the “son’s” death, which she, correspondingly, is forced to accept.
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This is also due to professional failure and disillusionment on George’s part, infidelity on her part and constant bickering on the part of both of them. The central theme of this play is the necessity of the removal of illusion from a relationship, and it is embodied in the title which Albee has explained as meaning: Who’s afraid of a life without illusion? In the life of George and Martha the illusion involved is the fiction that they have a child, and they indulge in this fantasy to compensate for their actual childlessness and their dreary married life. Though the play is concentrated on four characters, there are wider references to society as a whole, and the writer implies that if such people are degraded, the society must also be a degraded one. Within this milieu, the characters are above average, and the element of social criticism is directed towards the best that America has to offer by way of civilization. The play is set in the eastern part of the United States, the area where there are the most prestigious of America’s universities.