IB English Revision - Cat On A Hot Tin Roof
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Cat on A Hot Tin Roof Quotes: P19. Stage Direction for Brick: [He has the additional charm of that cool air of detachment that people have who have given up the struggle. He is far from peaceful at some deeper level] P.26 Maggie: But one thing I do not have is the charm of the defeated” P.39 Maggie Because big Daddy is what he is, and he makes no bones about it. He’s still a Mississippi red neck. P.42 Maggie: I’m sincere when I say I respect it. I think it was - noble. Life has got to be allowed to continue even after the dream of life is all over. P.44 Maggie: The truth that he and his world which he was born into and raised in, yours and his world, had told him count not be told? P.45 Brick: Because I used to jump them, and people like to do what they used to do, even after they’ve stopped being able to do it. P.55: BG: Spastic colon - made spastic, I guess, by disgust! By all the goddamn lies and liars that I have had to put up with, and all the goddam hypocrisy that I’ve lived with all these forty years that we’ve been living together! P.55: Brick: Wouldn’t it be funny it that was true... P.59: BG Why is it so hard for people to talk? P.65: BG:
She can’t admit to herself that she makes me sick. P.70: Brick: DISGUST! P.71 Brick: Have you ever heard the word mendacity? BG: Mendacity is one of them five-dollar words that cheap politicians throw back and forth at each other. P.72 BG I’ve lived with mendacity. Brick There is something else you can live with. Liquor. P.81 BG Your disgust with mendacity is disgust with yourself. P.98 Gooper A family crisis brings out the best and the worst in every member of it. P.105 Maggie: Oh, you weak people, you weak, beautiful people! - who give up. - What you want is someone to - take hold of you. Gently, gently and with love. Thoughts: •
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The closing speech of Maggie is similar to the one of Blanche in Streetcar. Streetcar. The gentleness of her being. Most of disclosures made in the play are voiced by Maggie. Even the lie about the baby. Maggie feels affinity towards BG because they share a rough, penniless past. Mendacity - disgust with yourself. Brick hides the real thing, the disgust with the fact that he himself hung up on Skipper with vague generalizations. generalizations. Brick - the name itself. Brick is walled behind his liquor, the charm of the defeated, defeated, but still there is unsettlement unsettlement inside him that he hides, and that is the true mendacity mendacity the fact that he can’t admit to himself, like BM. The only one who can is BG.
She can’t admit to herself that she makes me sick. P.70: Brick: DISGUST! P.71 Brick: Have you ever heard the word mendacity? BG: Mendacity is one of them five-dollar words that cheap politicians throw back and forth at each other. P.72 BG I’ve lived with mendacity. Brick There is something else you can live with. Liquor. P.81 BG Your disgust with mendacity is disgust with yourself. P.98 Gooper A family crisis brings out the best and the worst in every member of it. P.105 Maggie: Oh, you weak people, you weak, beautiful people! - who give up. - What you want is someone to - take hold of you. Gently, gently and with love. Thoughts: •
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The closing speech of Maggie is similar to the one of Blanche in Streetcar. Streetcar. The gentleness of her being. Most of disclosures made in the play are voiced by Maggie. Even the lie about the baby. Maggie feels affinity towards BG because they share a rough, penniless past. Mendacity - disgust with yourself. Brick hides the real thing, the disgust with the fact that he himself hung up on Skipper with vague generalizations. generalizations. Brick - the name itself. Brick is walled behind his liquor, the charm of the defeated, defeated, but still there is unsettlement unsettlement inside him that he hides, and that is the true mendacity mendacity the fact that he can’t admit to himself, like BM. The only one who can is BG.
