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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelEdward Albee is well known as American writer. According to him, the
theatre is the mechanism for truth. Its method may be oblique, but it is ultimately
concerned with the need to identify and embrace the real and the truth.(Bigsby,
1967, p.258). Theatre is a place to express the reality of life and dramatize the
reality of man?s condition as their need to get self-congratulation and reassurance
and presenting a false picture of man to man. In this thesis, I discuss The Death of
Bessie Smith, one of Albee?s plays as my primary source. In this play, Edward
Albee attempts to show how the unfulfilled needs of human beings influence their
attitudes that give suffer to other. It expresses the reality of man?s condition as
their effort to get self-reassurance and present a false picture of man to man. In
this play, four main characters namely Father, Nurse, Orderly and Intern cannot
fulfill their needs because of their inability to accept the reality. In this study I will
analyze their unfulfilled needs and their defense mechanism with some
psychological theories to support my analysis. Finally, it can be seen through the
analysis that the main character?s unfulfilled needs due to their false attitudes in
facing their lives. The defense mechanisms serve as a means to compensate their
unfulfilled need.