English comparative essay how to avoid arguments and who s afraid of Virginia Woolf
Why are there arguments between couples? ... The play ¡§Who¡¦s afraid of Virginia Woolf¡¨ by Edward Albee (written in 1992) and the extract ¡§How to avoid arguments¡¨ from the book ¡§Men are form Mars, women are from Venus¡¨ by John Gray (written in 1962) both got discussions about this issue. ... His characteristics is that he likes challenging his audience to form an opinion on different social issues, like in this play, the inability to communicate, which gradually leads to arguments. ... expressing the same main theme, arguments between men and women. Moreover, through their texts, we can state that they both think that women are the ones who are responsible for the start of arguments. ¡§Who¡¦s afraid of Virginia Woolf¡¨ is about a married couple having an argument and emotionally tear each other to shreds one drunken night. What Albee is trying to bring out through the characters is that the reason for them to have arguments is because of the inability to communicate between them, which is the theme of the text. ... ¡§You¡¦re so frigging¡K convoluted¡K that¡¦s what you are. ... By creating an educated man who generally stays quite calm while his wife is arguing with him violently and non-sensibly, Albee creates a mood that it is women who is responsible for the start of the arguments. On the other hand, ¡§How to avoid arguments¡¨ is also to express the theme of Gray¡¦s own view of arguments between men and women. The subtitle ¡¨how women unknowingly start arguments¡¨ obviously states out that Gray thinks women not being direct is the reason why arguments are bring started, which is similar to Albee¡¦s view.