ESSAYS

On the notion that the the “thundercloud of a common crisis” in which the characters find themselves is a product of their self-denial.

On the proposition that in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", Williams exposes the destructive impact of repressed feeling in a climate of social conservatism

On the idea that in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", lies are therapeutic.

On the proposition that it is an obsession with materialism that produces the play’s mendacity.

“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.

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.