Cat On A Hot Tin Roof

Question 1

Tennessee Williams cat on a hot tin roof ventures into the depths of the human condition.

Answer 1

Trapped in a fixed world

Question 2

Williams hovers over his own play carefully waving into proceeding the grim reality and bleak existence of a distasteful minority’s in the grip of disease

Answer 2

Williams appeal through art

Question 3

Williams punishing struggles with the idea of confirming to a monoculture that eulogised concepts such as the land of the free whilst embracing the witch-hunts of McCarthyism that where rampant in the fifties

Answer 3

Loneliness

Question 4

Maggie is reasonable sounding and frequently this pretty woman with lines of her face will ultimately be the cause of the audiences relief

Answer 4

Fixed societal view

Question 5

Big daddy is a southern style redneck found of barking orders in a stentorian voice, BIG MOMMA or simply QUIET to convey a sense of authority without enhancing any sense of credibility

Answer 5

Larger than life

Question 6

In the style of fifties McCarthyism big daddy will bludgeon meaning into the minds of plantation citizens. Brick being his favourite son is singled out to carry on the operations of the plantation l, however he must first me moved from the foundations of his being

Answer 6

Big daddy not what he seems

Question 7

In structuring his play within looming death, Williams creates a mortal tension, so that a pressure of time is created.

Answer 7

Sexual Innuendo

Question 8

Big Daddy reveals through braggadocio an un-boundaried life of achievement on an estate that spans 28,000 acres

Answer 8

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