A THEMATIC STUDY OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS’ THE ROSE TATTOO
Dr Nitya Nand
Associate Professor, Department of English, Bapu P.G. College, Pipiganj Gorakhpur, India
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In all his plays Tennessee Williams has been critical to American middle –class protestant culture for its puritanical and hypocritical standard of respectability resulting in the deformity of human personality. He admires the uninhibited sexual behavior which according to him is basic to the proper development of human personality. The repression of it in any form is harmful. Williams has tried to handle this problem not like a psychiatrist or in a Freudian form but as a literary artist who believes in the universal belief that human beings are happy and satisfied when they follow there blood instinct. Rose tattoo is one of surch plays.
Keywords:
Tennessee Williams; Modern American drama; American playwright; THE ROSE TATTOO
References
- Roger Boxil, (1987), Tennessee Williams, New York, St. Martin Press, p.133.
- “San Francisco Chronicle”, Sunday Book Section of August 26, 1961
- Donald Spoto, The Kindness of Strangers, p. 170.
- Tennessee Williams’ The Rose Tattoo, (London:Seeker and Warborg 1956), p.30
- The Rose Tattoo, p.38.
- Ibid. p. 125.
- Joseph Wood Kruth, quoted in Signi Falk, Tennessee Williams, p. 160
- Harlod Clurman, The New Republic (xix, Oct. 25,1968), p.26.
- Ibid. p. 129.
