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