"I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage". Reflections on the idea that none of the characters in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ are free.
"I'm not living with you. We occupy the same cage". Reflections on the idea that none of the characters in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ are free.
On the proposition that it is an obsession with materialism that produces the play’s mendacity.
This essay explores the twin threads of trauma and creation that for Plath seem inexplicably bound to her own poetic journey, and to that of women in her society.
Moments within 'The Great Gatsby' unveil that for someone like Gatsby, both "inside and out", the sordid system he occupies, with all its abuse, only leaves him wanting more.
This triumvirate captures Plath's poetic license running the gamut of paradoxes and conflicting imagery to precipitate a femininity that is torn between oppression and liberation.
One offers a searing condemnation of gendered stereotypes, yet in this pairing, it makes the mesmerising, violent rebirth of the latter all the more breath-taking.