?In Albee’s play “Who’s Afraid” Of Virginia Woolf?,” each character is trapped in a closed static universe. Frustration of hopes and the inability to realise sexual or spiritual fulfilment, dependence upon as well as the loathing of the world in which they live are the playwright’s central preoccupations. The characters, George and Martha inhabit a world which is isolated from reality - the world of illusion, their son. It is in this world of isolation that George’s and Martha’s, emotions crescendo, leading to a perversely fractious relationship. The only mode of communication is by way of abuse and insults - hence language is simply a verbal accoutrement, according to absurdists that conceals the emptiness and vacuum within the human being. Referring to Virginia Woolf, an acclaimed British author and one who was intensely preoccupied with realism is ironic. According to Albee, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” means “who is afraid to live without illusions?” and hence the operative word “Afraid,” intimates the emotion of fear which is a central thematic preoccupation of the play. George and Martha have isolated themselves from each other by escaping into playing games - the illusions, and creating fantasies that only reinforce their loneliness, despair and fear of “Virginia Woolf,” - the reality. For George and Martha their reality is a lonely existence, in which they struggle to communicate, as such the imaginary child, the “young boy” offers a refuge from the dissatisfaction with their real lives and a temporary bandage on the problems with their marriage as Martha quotes “ tis the refuge we take when the unreality of the world weighs too heavy on our tiny heads”.Here is the borderline which Albee’s characters fail to heed. Left to their own resources, they construct for themselves a world of illusion which affords escape from their recurring sense of personal inadequacy. Illusion works for a time, but soon brings complications which want redress. Albee therefore introduces illusion only to reassess it, to show how his characters must rid themselves of falsehood and return to the world in which they must live. because they d