#patriarchy

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

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.

“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.

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.