Rhetorical Analysis Of Big Dadddy, By Tennesssee Williams '

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My response to this play I will detail in five sections. This play was written by Tennesssee Williams and premiered in the mid 50s. This play is a southern drama with subjects involving death, mendacity, alcoholism and family disagreement.

Money, death and lies are the central theme of this book. Which has existed since the beginning of time and present in society today. This play heavily focuses on falsehoods and fate. The question of whether or not should we as a society be doing anything to change America, my answer is affrimative, I agree we should. With that being said, the only way to stop greed is to stop the capatilistic machine. Destroying currensy on a global scale and putting zero emphasis on money and more emphasis on building …show more content…

Money isn 't everything and when we value human life more than money, things get dangerous. This is my philosophical and idealogical stand point in regards to what could be done.

For a character analysis, I 'm going to explore Big Dadddy. Let 's start off with this quote, "Oh, yes, I do, oh, yes, I do, I mean it! I put up with a whole lot of crap around here because I thought I was dying. And you thought I was dying and you starte taking over, well, you can stop taking over now, Ida, because I 'm not gonna die, you can just stop now this business of taking over because you 're not taking over because I 'm not dying, I went through the laboratory and the goddam exploratory operation and there 's nothing wrong with me but a spastic colon. And I 'm not dying of cancer which you thought I was dying of. Ain 't that so? Didn 't you think that I was dying of cancer, Ida?" He said this in response to his wife who is referred to in the play as Big Mama. This is where we see mendacity. He is trying to protect his wife from such a …show more content…

In others he stated he didn 't like having sex with her and didn 't really love her. I think if Big Daddy would 've been up front and honest when he started feeling that way, then he wouldn 't even had to deal with Big Mama and pretended to be something that he really wasn 't. She was crushed to find out as well that Big Daddy had kept his diagnose from her.

When it comes to death, Big Mama I think was one who really kept a healthy response. It 's good to cry and let your emotions out. Big Daddy towards the end like I quoted above about letting his kingdom go was another really healthy solution to his view on death. While Maggie I believe had the worst out look on death and only cared about the money from Big Daddy. Brick was the one who struggled with his lovers death, Skipper and his part in his death. I found Brick 's way of handling death very unhealthy by drinking and being angry at his wife and family.

These are my views on the play Cat on a Tin Roof. The story brought about very good topics and a good insight on what it 's like when you are a millionaire and money can 't buy you more life. The way people deal with the death of a loved one and the fight that ensues over money of a family member which is replusive in my

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