Tennessee Williams in general

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams

There's nothing more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof. This is one of my favourite books, with so many issues looked as such as 'avarice avarice greed greed', family rejection, cancer sexuality and the breakdown of marriage. The plot focuses around Brick, the youngest son of a rich plantation owner called Big Daddy, as he faces up to his past and pushes his wife, Maggie the cat, away. Added to the confusion are the hints (never explicitly said) that brick is gay as his best friend was gay and Brick becomes an alcoholic as he watched Skipper slip away to drugs and alcohol - the path Brick himself seems to be following. The subplot is also the ...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams

There's nothing more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof. This is one of my favourite books, with so many issues looked as such as 'avarice avarice greed greed', family rejection, cancer sexuality and the breakdown of marriage. The plot focuses around Brick, the youngest son of a rich plantation owner called Big Daddy, as he faces up to his past and pushes his wife, Maggie the cat, away. Added to the confusion are the hints (never explicitly said) that brick is gay as his best friend was gay and Brick becomes an alcoholic as he watched Skipper slip away to drugs and alcohol - the path Brick himself seems to be following. The subplot is also the ...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams

I chose to read this play after studying '...Streetcar...' for my English A-level, and thoroughly enjoying it. Both that and 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof' are very much character plays, whereby each character is explored through their interactions with one another. 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof' is about a South American family who are facing a crisis. Big Daddy the 'head' of the home is dying from cancer. Two of the characters are brothers and they live at home with their parents as well as with their wives and kids. The whole play takes place in the middle of the night when tensions are high. The scene is set in a grand plantation home in the ...

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof - Tennessee Williams

I chose to read this play after studying '...Streetcar...' for my English A-level, and thoroughly enjoying it. Both that and 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof' are very much character plays, whereby each character is explored through their interactions with one another. 'Cat On A Hot Tin Roof' is about a South American family who are facing a crisis. Big Daddy the 'head' of the home is dying from cancer. Two of the characters are brothers and they live at home with their parents as well as with their wives and kids. The whole play takes place in the middle of the night when tensions are high. The scene is set in a grand plantation home in the ...

The Streetcar named Desire - Tennessee Williams

Being a literature student, I have studied this play in some depth. It is cear that this play is original, with genuine exoticism submersing a very deep plot. A complicated play calling on the use of music and lighting with devastating effect, as the stage directions have startling clarity about them with William's descibing everything to the smallest detail possible. The scene is set in a quite poor quarter in the middle of New Orleans, conviniently the 'home' of jazz, making the use of music all the more believable. The main characters are effectively Stanley and Stella Kowalski, Harrold 'Mitch' Mitchell and, as the blurb on the book says, "the fading ...

The Streetcar named Desire - Tennessee Williams

Being a literature student, I have studied this play in some depth. It is cear that this play is original, with genuine exoticism submersing a very deep plot. A complicated play calling on the use of music and lighting with devastating effect, as the stage directions have startling clarity about them with William's descibing everything to the smallest detail possible. The scene is set in a quite poor quarter in the middle of New Orleans, conviniently the 'home' of jazz, making the use of music all the more believable. The main characters are effectively Stanley and Stella Kowalski, Harrold 'Mitch' Mitchell and, as the blurb on the book says, "the fading ...