American Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences

 In most of his plays, Albee focused on the themes of loneliness, alienation, lack of social communication, family disintegration, loss, anxiety about the future, and absence of human ideals. Some of these plays also reflected the troubled life of Albee, particularly during his childhood and adolescence. The repeated inclusion of anxiety and loss in most of Albee’s plays illustrates the suffering faced by individuals in the American capitalist society after the Second World War and reflects some parts of Albee’s personal life.This paper will attempt to identify the reasons that encourage Albee to include anxious characters with a sense of loss in most of his literary plays by studying the state of American society in Albee’s period and by examining how his previous experiences affect the themes presented in his works.