SATIRE IN EDWARD ALBEE’S THE AMERICAN DREAM
Abstract
Literature is the reflection of human life. It has close relation to
the real life since the source of literary works is obtained from human
experiences and the events that happen in society. Literature is a
social institution that uses the language as the medium.
Cole and Lindemann in Reading and Responding to Literature
say that literature is real eventhough, paradoxically, the situations
and characters it portrays may be fictive (1990:9). It means that the
literature portrays the society in reality. It is strengthened by Wellek
and Warren’s statement in their book entitled Theory of Literature.
They say that “Literature represents life and life is in large measure,
social reality, eventhough the natural world and the inner or
subjective world of the individual has also been objects of literary
imitation” (1956:110).