Existential excursion in Alan Bennett’s Me, I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Abstract

This thesis entitled as “Existential Excursion in Alan Bennett’s Me, I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is about existential struggle of Hopkins, the protagonist of the play. This thesis task makes a brief view of the play and introduces problems for the existence of Hopkins where Existentialism is used as the theoretical tool. Hopkins’ searching for happiness by going against the conventional systems and prolonging life even within socio-cultural boundaries are concerned in the thesis along with the textual references. Hence, this research work concludes viewing protagonist as an existential character and Me, I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf as an existential play because of the theme and message created by the extremely primitive society and Hopkins’ continue attempts for happier life that depicted in the play.