Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Elia Kazan created a film adaptation in 1958 of Tennessee Williams’s original play titled Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. This film overall offers an expanded role for Big Daddy, and one scene in particular that clearly shows this extended role is the basement scene (interpolated just for the film), that proves to be very incongruent with Williams’s thoughts on the topics of homosexuality, communication, and narcissism seen throughout his play. Homosexuality, a topic evident in…
In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Brick reflects Williams’ a broken man who cannot proclaim the longing in his relationship with his dead friend Skipper. Sexual identity was something Williams wrestled with in his life and can be seen in this play (Lovelady). Being homosexual…
is given power through her title of ‘Queen’. The queen is also described as ‘little’ and was first introduced in need of saving from the wildcat. The mouse may be given the tittle of a queen but she is still weakened from her need to rely on the Tin Woodman to kill cat. She immediately surrenders her power for him and said “so hereafter you must all serve him, and obey his slightest wish” (Baum 64). Majority of the secondary female characters are considered ‘good’ characters because of their…
Until one day a witch named Mombi appears, asking her if she wants to escape. After a brief fight with the Tin Woodman and the Royal Guards, they are both transported to the Wicked headquarters. When they arrive she meets Gert who was formerly the Good Witch of the North, Glamora who is Glinda's twin, and Nox a fighter for the Order. She is trained as a witch…
the tin woodman, and finally the lion. The order in which Dorothy meets them is important since they represent (are linked) H.P. Blavatsky's(insert footnote 1 here) description of the 3 personality that must developed, in order to defeat the perils of life. "There is no danger that dauntless courage cannot conquer; there is no trial that spotless purity cannot pass through; there is no difficulty that strong intellect cannot surmount." Courage is what the lion desires, Purity is what the Tin…
is Scarecrow is actually the farmers that live in the midwest. Farmers have working situation during that time period, because of the inflation it was hard for people to pay back debts and they were looking for help from the Populist Party. The Tin Woodman represents industrialized northern industrial workers. The Populist party think that they work for long but the salary is just a little. Then Populist party believed the workers have lost their human heart, and became a mechanized people. The…
The book that I read was Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige. This is a book about a bullied high schooler named Amy Gumm. Amy lives in Flat Hill, Kansas with her neglectful, drug-addicted mom and her mom’s pet rat, Star. When Amy gets suspended for “fighting” with Madison Pendleton, one of Amy’s bullies who also happens to be pregnant, Amy is sent home early. She comes home only to find that her mom is going to a bar for a party even with the impending doom of an approaching tornado. When her…
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz area testament to the talent and imagination of both L. Frank Baun. Their use of color helped shape the tale of Dorothy, the Tin Woodman, Scarecrow and cowardly lion along with the rest of the characters in the land of Oz. She used five different colors. One of the color that used in the novel is red. Red is the color of blood, greed, death. It is also frequently associated with Nessa's shoes is indeterminate in the novel. the shoes are also described in the terms of…
unladylike to scream she sat quiety as her makeup was removed. Before official filming had even begun, Christian “Buddy” Ebsen was hired to play the Tin Woodman. In order to design the the finalized costume for his character, they needed to test makeup and costume ideas. As he was going to play the Tin Man, he had to test in clothes made of real tin and his makeup was made of real aluminum powder. About two weeks later, he was suffering breathing problems and had to be rushed to the hospital in…
Oz, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan, where he befriends the Wicked Witch of the West, The Queen of Hearts, Caption Hook and their armies too. When they try to stop him Alex and Mother Goose are sent into Camelot and Conner, Peter Pan, and the Tin woodman are sent into Robin Hood. They create the book potion with an ancient branch of a tree, a true love’s lock, a fine pheasant’s feather, two weeks of moonlight and a spark of magic. When Alex wants to leave Mother Goose falls in love with…