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The plays are relatively plotless (nothing much seems to happen). Characters behave illogically, speak in clichés, rarely if ever communicate with each other, and seem to have no clearly defined coherent characters.ĥ. The plays are serious but often (or at least intermittently) comic, especially satiric.Ī) human loneliness in a world without God,Ĭ) the dehumanization and impotence of individuals in a bourgeois society, andĤ. The plays are §theatrical ¨ rather than realistic, often setting forth obviously impossible situations with obviously unreal characters.Ģ. In fact, we urge you, after reading the list, to think about the ways in which Albee ¦s The Sandbox does NOT quite fit the list.ġ.

We do not mean, of course, that all of these qualities are found in all of their works. Here we can briefly list the characteristics usually found in the works of these playwrights. Generally speaking, the theater of writers as Beckett, Ionesco, Pinter, and Albee is called the theatre of the absurd.

Grandma ¦s dilemma is prevalent throughout the US Xthe spiritual sterility of life in a highly materialized society in the second half of the twentieth century.

Using a toy shovel busily covering herself with sand, the grandma is symbolically digging her own grave.

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Obvious symbolic meaning is that the sandbox which is square and full of sand is made to keep in whoever is placed there much like a coffin.

a strong connection between the very old and infant, both are unable to care for themselves, both require an inordinate amount of patience from whoever is responsible.

In Albee's "The Sandbox," the scene is a bare stage on which the stage-center is "a large child's sandbox with a toy pail and shovel."