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A Catalogue of Components
ENGLISH CLASS EPISODE XVRETURN OF THE NOTE

• Character, Theme, Imagery and Symbolism in Cat on
  a Hot Tin Roof

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BUT FIRST
KITTIES!!!
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CHARACTER

• Revealed by
• a) What (s)he says
• What (s)he does
• What is said about him or her

Prrrroowwwwwwr!
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Shaking the Pollitt Family Tree

• 1. Big Daddy head of the Pollitt family,
  wealthy plantation owner
• 2. Big Mama Big Daddy's wife
• 3. Gooper their eldest son, married to Mae
  with whom he has 5 children
• 4. Brick their youngest son, former star
  athlete turned alcoholic, married to Maggie who
  desires her husband's love

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SETTING

• Where Big Daddy's plantation in the Mississippi
  River Delta (Southern USA)
• When circa 1950

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THEME
- the big ideas (vs. moral the lesson)?
Power
Family Relationships
Sexuality
Appearance vs. Reality
Communication
MENDACITY!!!
Truth
Dehumanization
Hypocrisy
LOVE (awww)?
Class
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IMAGERY
Creating a picture in the readers mind
ANIMAL
DIRTY/CLEAN
BURNING
LIGHT/DARK
HUNTING
DISEASE
IMPRISONMENT
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CYMBAL errr SYMBOLISM
Symbolism When an object, animal, action, etc.
represents something more than itself. Often,
the concrete used to represent the abstract.
For example
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SYMBOLS in Cat?
Also Names (BRICK! ) and the title of the play
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DRAMATIC METHOD

• - begins in media resin the middle of the
  storyright on the verge of the climax
• - climax occurs at the end of Act IIplot-based
  and psychological in nature
• - past revealed in parcels
• - very focused on characters and relationships
• - many monologues