Relationships Made in
Hell
Who’s afraid of
Virginia Woolf is a very interesting play written by Edward Albee, in
which many relevant and strange situations happen. These are truly real life
issues that occur to everyone. Moreover, it is a play that shows as a “game” something
that is actually a reality that may happen to us in our everyday lives. Even
though many interesting scenes can be argue, in this post I will focus my
writing to one situation in particular which is the well known “toxic couple”
presented in the play by George and Martha.
Both characters make the play arousing to be viewed or read. However, is
it interesting when you appear to be like George (if you are a man), or being
like Martha (in the case if you reader are a woman)? It is clearly not because
as you will see it is unhealthy to live like they did. But it happens a lot. It
is very common to see couples behave like they do, and maybe you have experienced
it too.
They are immersed into a nightmare, surrounded by constant fights
between each other, insulting, making jokes that might be very harmful, etc.
These are clearly not fun or innocent games. On the contrary, it can be vicious
and are stormy moments that do not go anywhere or anywhere good. Alcohol and
drinking is another essential aspect that surround their way of living, and it badly
contributes to the cruelty and the unhealthy treatment that both have.
Martha bullies George by constantly reminding him about his lack of
academic studies and professional as well as personal achievements. She does
not care about ridiculing him in front of other people. They both function by
insulting themselves verbally mostly. Nevertheless, there is a scene in which
Martha crosses the line and George let her know that by acting very violently.
In fact, in “Walpurgis Nacht”, George grabs Martha by the throat and chokes her
because she was laughing at his failed attempts as a novelist. Nick prevented this to end badly.
However, what caught my attention the most is that even though George
almost kills Martha, she did not appear to be surprised by his reaction. She
might have thought that it was totally a normal behavior. And it is not!
How couldn’t they notice that their relationship wasn’t healthy? How
could they live with each other like that? Why didn’t they separate? Did they
really like living their lives insulting themselves and making fun of each
other?
This post is created in order for you to reflect and think about
yourselves: am I living this situation? Is something similar happening to me? Or
most common have you thought about having lived this situation in your life.
Maybe it has already happen to you, and you got through it, or maybe you’re
still living it. What a nightmare, isn’t it?
This is more an advice than an informative post. That is for the reason
that I know that you can be going through a similar situation or know someone
who is living it. Because it is very common to occur! It is reality. The play
shows an awful reality. Therefore, it is important that you know how to stop it
to continue happening.
So you need to notice that it is not a healthy relationship even though
you feel love for the person. There are other ways of being happy, and this is not
the way. It is worthless to be in a relationship if it matches to the one
presented in the play by Martha and George.
This stormy and
vicious situation can happen not only in love relationships, but also in
friendships. So take into consideration the following video and analyze if you
really are going through this, and get the courage to fight it and leave it, so
that you can go on and finally be happy. But it is important to remember that
not every relationship is as it is said “it’s not all a bed of roses”, everyone
has its good and bad moments, but there is the point. Bad moments shouldn’t be
the most recurrent in our lives, but the good ones. If your life is mostly
based on bad moments you need to do something before it is too late. In fact,
the best way to live with someone you love is by finding the balance.
Follow the tips given in this video and free yourself from this turbulent relationships:
I hope you liked it and that it helps you!
Thank you for reading :)
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