Extrinsic Elements of The Sandbox By Edward Albee.
Elements in the framework of literary studies M.H Abrams.
I am trying to use Mimetic approach from Abrams as the extrinsic element for analysis this play.
The definition of mimetic approach is the study of relationship between the work and the society. This method extremely uses the society to be reflector for the work. So, I will try to explain what is the correlation between the literature and the method bellow.
The sandbox play is telling us about mommy and daddy who waiting for grandma death with their self-involved and selfish. Here, Albee tells that mommy and daddy do not love grandma. Some dialogue tells us about how grandma does not feel happy to stay or live with them. And I think, because mommy and daddy who reflect as children in the real world can not give affection to their parents, the children usually just think that facilities are enough for fulfill what parents need without thinking about what actually they want, and grandma who reflects as parent in the real world live with unhappy situation, it is also because her husband was died and she have to take care of the children only by herself. So, she thinks difficulty of their situation in her live. Finally, she asks for happy in the other live to the young man who reflects as the deathly.
I think, the case in the play by Albee is connected with the reality. When the child in one family thinks her or his parents burden her live, disturb her business and something else. And of course it is reflecting from the story that usually happens in society. And this play is like Albee expresses his feelings of disappointment regarding the way society treat the elder people.
My opinion about this approach is also support by the paragraph of Edward Albee’s biography, let check the paragraph.
Albee describes his work as "an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty, and emasculation and vacuity, a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen."
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