Battle of the Sexes in William's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Abstract

This research is about Tennessee Williams Cat on a Hot Tin Roof from several references to the cat focusing on conventional woman’s rights of heritage in her family. In the same way it indicates the resulting consequences from the Battle of Sexes. The Cat on a Hot Tin Roof refers to a particular fantasy of feminity and feminine desire. It develops the theme of mendacity symbolized by alcoholism. This play reveals a world of human frustration in which sex and violence underlie an atmosphere of romantic gentile of the post war American society of twentieth century. There are many sexual relationships in the play and all of them imposed upon each other. Most of them are troubled. Big Daddy admits that sexuality with his wife has been essentially joyless for him. Brick and Margaret no longer have a sexual relationship. Gooper and Mae appear to have the most fulfilling sex relationship. This sexual union which has produced five children seems to lack all the elements of compassion, deep feeling and tenderness which mark the less successful relationship in the play. The language is part of the whole creation, mixture of realism, fantasy, a personalized version of an authentic American idioms. Thus, the play is found having the issues of battle of sexes.