Disoriented Homosexual - "cat On A Hot Lead Sheet Roof" In The Hero Brick And Drama Subject Analysis

Tennessee Williams has been regarded as one of the most importantplaywrights in the history of American literature. His plays have been honored"The most lively poems written in American English". Most of his plays areautobiographical. As a homosexual playwright, he experienced thediscrimination and destroying effect from the society. Skipper and Brick in Caton a Hot Iin"Roof were destroyed by the society, not by the homosexualbehavior itself. Based on Tennessee's experience and the social backgroundwhen the play was written, this thesis analyzes the motives of the familymembers who voiced Brick as homosexual, the presentation method of Brickon stage, Brick's complex characteristics and Tennessee's response to the"Broadway Cat Play". Through all above, the theme of the play is pointed out:It is the society that rapes the individuals.