Lack of Communication and Reconciliation: A Study of Metempsychosis in Edward Albees The Zoo Story

Abstract

The present paper quite emphatically maps out the difficulty in communication caused by mental repression under the grim, absurd, violent and pessimistic atmosphere. Though the play The Zoo Story is dejected into the grim and violent story, it sparks illumination of positivism and ray of hope. This paper aims to convey the message of reconciliation through the process of metempsychosis for the materialised and compartmentalised American society. Albee through his presentation of the characters in the crux of communication generates a kind of ‘teaching emotion’ to strike the elite class to approve the value of existence and needs of suppressed and marginalised lower class.