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In both, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” and “A Streetcar name Desire”, the roles of sex and power are of paramount importance and are a constant feature throughout the play. The emergence of certain characters from these two plays are emphasised by the way they portray sex and power. These two concepts are of great importance individually to the plays, but they are also linked, and work in unison to create the situations and …

…the previous uses of the two concepts. Overall, as illustrated in, “A Streetcar named Desire” and, “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?”, sex and power are very closely linked. Whilst they are used for different purposes and to achieve different objectives, as seen in the two plays, they do sometimes converge until they can’t be separated. Ultimately in these two plays, they appear as one idea;- power is sex, and sex is power.