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Drama Film Essays

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Surname 1 Name: Tutor: Course: Date: Drama Film Essays Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tennessee Williams, 1995 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a sizzling comedy of desire, deception and avarice set within the American Deep South. Big Daddy Pollitt, the main character, who is the wealthiest cotton farmer within the Mississippi Delta is about to have a celebration of his sixty-fifth birthday (Williams 12). The two sons of the rich farmer have gotten back home for the occasion. As the hot summer nightfall unfolds, the veneer of a happy family life is shown by the wealthy family. Created into a movie starring Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof is a masterly drama of the depiction of family tensions and persons imprisoned within prisons of their making. In the psychological analysis of literature, it is presumed that a work of imaginative writing is at all times autobiographical; works of art such as dream are viewed as enacting the writer’s psychological states, inner conflicts, as well as current concerns. The primary characters within the drama, Maggie and Brick may be interpreted as symbolizing Tennessee (Williams Williams 34). In the course of their evolution from their initial appearance within a short tale through the original and Broadway accounts of the drama, Tennessee Williams has figuratively worked through a defining moment in his own life as an actor or artist, the point at which he would decide either to shape his drama in line with his or other’s views of ...
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