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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

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Similar themes of MENDACITY (lying) and the fear of aging,as well as masculinity and relationships.

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CoaHTR and homosexuality- Nicholas Becht

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Both Blanche and Maggie Pollitt are associated with homosexuality through marriage ‘Williams’ uses heterosexual female protagonists to covertly represent and explore themes of male homosexuality and desire’

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Sexual female protagonists

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Portrayal of deeply sexual (promiscuous) female leads atypical for the time

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How is Blanche’s behaviour a defence mechanism

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She shows repression according to Freud psychoanalysis, a withdrawal of consciousness of an unwanted idea

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