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A five page paper which looks at Edgar Allen Poe’s short story The Black Cat in terms of the way in which the author uses dramatic irony throughout the narrative to develop the story and lead it to its inevitable conclusion and the downfall of the protagonist.
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5 pages (~225 words per page)
File: JL5_JLCat.rtf
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derived from his own experience, in the sense that the social and emotional conflict which takes place between his characters, and which provides much of the motivation behind his narrative,
was extrapolated from his own observations of the failed American Dream. One can see this particularly well exemplified in Streetcar, and in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, in which
the characters struggle to escape from the social conventions which constrain them in what is evidently a hopeless pursuit of social aspirations which they will never attain.
However, this does not mean that they are not aware of these constraints: one of the tragedies
of the human condition which Williams constantly reiterates is that a life of negativity is made infinitely worse if one is also aware of that negativity. When Maggie asks what
the aim of the cat on the hot tin roof actually is, she answers herself by saying that the cats purpose is simply to stay there as long as possible.
In other words, the option of jumping off the roof altogether is not a valid one: the cats only chance of survival is to dance endlessly from one foot to
the other until, in the end, exhaustion overcomes it. We see this not only in Maggie herself, but in Skipper and Brick, and the interaction between the three of them.
They understand that their entire lives are effectively a balancing-act, like that of the cat, which allows them to survive within the confines of their cultural ideology, and that they
will never be able to jump off the roof. If one considers the play
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