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Mommy, Daddy and symbolize the future generation, while Grandma is an icon of the past. While it is unclear whether this is actually where she lives in Mommy and Daddy's townhouse, and whether these are her only possessions, these details become metaphors for her mistreatment in Mommy's house: for Mommy and Daddy's lack of respect for her, and for her loss of identity living with her daughter. Mommy, Daddy, and Grandma are symbols of poor relationships in the contemporary family unit. Grandma says that she was given a place to live with Mommy and Daddy: "under the stove" and with an Army blanket and a dish. He tells Grandma that he is "the Angel of Death," and in taking on that name, he becomes the Angel of Death, making the metaphor literal: he has come to usher Grandma into the world of the non-living.
The fact that he doesn't know his name as he hasn't been given one by the movie studio yet represents that he too is a liminal element of the play space, that he represents an intermediary between life and death. The Young Man character is an actor playing the Angel of Death in the play. While the stage is not made to look like a literal beach, it represents it. The beach and the sandbox on it represent a kind of liminal space, in between life and death. When they first arrive onstage, Mommy tells Daddy, "this is the beach," and the audience is led to understand that the stage is meant to represent the beach. From the results of this analysis there is also a picture of the theme raised for this drama is about the emptiness, emptiness, and loneliness of a person in which we as humans need love and affection from other humans.Buy Study Guide "This is the Beach" (metaphor) Based on the results of this analysis it can be said that in this analysis the writer found ten absurd symbols contained in the sandbox drama. The method used in this research is descriptive analysis method and qualitative method, which is describing the collected data and then compiled it by analyzing a semiotic drama script which can be seen from its extrinsic elements that have absurd symbols. This study uses the theory of Roland Barthes who put forward a sign or symbol and a little supporting theory from Saussasure. (3) To analyze the absurd symbols of The Sandbox drama. (2) To explain the reader understand and be able to describe what symbols are used from the drama The Sandbox.
This research aims to : (1) To explain the reader understand the extrinsic elements of The Sandbox drama. They did not care about mommy until mommypun died. Then mommy took grandma to a place and put her in a sandbox where I interpreted this as the last time for grandmother's care and that was very tragic, like waiting for grandmother to die so they could live in peace. He put my grandmother under the kitchen and only had a thin blanket and used potluck utensils. But the child that grandmother hoped didn't care about him. Where in the short story the 85-year-old grandmother who had been left by her husband and after the death of her husband the grandmother fought alone to support her child `namely mommys. And although it may be argued that its frequent revivals have resulted from its relative ease and cheapness of production, its popularity, in our opinion, is also due to its enduring merit as a work of art. This research is entitled An Analysis o f Ten Symbol o f Grandma's Death As Reflected In The Edward Albee Sandbox. The Sandbox, Albee's second one-act tragedy, was well received.