In the movie,”Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf”, What does the title mean?
I studied “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” in English this term. It’s actually a play by Edward Albee. The movie was based on the play. Anyway, this is what I wrote down in my notes: 1) Why is the title “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” From “Who’s Afraid of The Big, Bad Wolf”; children sing nursery rhymes like “Who’s Afraid of The Big, Bad Wolf” when they’re scared. In the play, George and Martha were keeping secrets from Nick and Honey and from themselves. They were afraid to admit to others and themselves that their marriage was failing; they were scared, so they would sing, “who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf?”. Also, Virginia Woolf was an English writer in the early 20th century. She wrote in the style of stream-of-consciousness (shows the characters’ thought process; shows characters’ “underlying psychological and emotional motives”). Characters like George and Martha would be afraid of Virginia Woolf because she tries to understand “psychological and emotional motives”, which George
