Constitutive Use of Anxiety in Albee's The Play About the Baby
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Albee takes the characters who are suffering in the absurd world. To show the
suffering of the characters, he gives pain and agony to them. Through this, he wants to
show the ruined lives of characters to highlight the existential angst of human beings.
Human beings realise their existence only by scars and wounds. Here, he tries to
explore the existential consciousness through the excessive use of anxiety given to the
characters. The pain, torture and anxiety help characters to realise their real existence
or identity, their use is highly constructive and constitutive. Through this constitutive
anxiety, inThe Play About the Baby,Albee forces characters to think that life is not
only pleasant but also a part of tragedy.