Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS ON AFRO - EURASIAN RESEARCH IV - APRIL 27-29, 2018 / BUDAPEST, Budapest, Macaristan, 27 - 29 Nisan 2018, ss.137
It is difficult to define accurately which ideas affect society in a particular period. However, ideas can be traced back to the works of art of a period. Furthermore, about the importance of this difficulty in order to establish those of well-defined social attitudes, especially theater-drama takes one step beyond from the other works of art, such as painting, literature, television and cinema, because the performance of a play is the easiest way to transfer the ideas to the society and it is usually more remarkable than a lecture or casual conversation. For this reason, the theatre has been used as the best way to reflect many layers of human experience. In its broadest sense, the theater has often served as a proper way in order to show and change the present ideas in the society. Thus, theatre becomes a social form of art, which human beings have used from the earliest times for the exchange of ideas through discourse and behavior. Present study is of aim to investigate status of American society in Edward Albee’s American Dream, an absurdist play, thus it is mainly focused on the social roles of the characters in the play, and so sociological criticism was used in order to determine the situation of the American society reflected by the Albee and his play.