Drama is one of the three super-genres that is claimed to be successful through performance. Drama comes alive through the motion and movement and thus is meant to function this way. However, drama through text and reading is more powerful through the literary elements than performance. In the play “Cat on A Hot Tin Roof” by Tennessee Williams the play touches themes such as lies, secrets, homosexuality and love. Brick and Maggie are in a marriage that is only for appearance. Nevertheless, both husband and wife are not on the same page. Maggie is in love with her husband Brick however, Brick is in love with his best friend Skipper. William establishes between Maggie and Brick to illustrate social-economic issues through literary elements. The use of symbolic narrative helps explain the title of the play. The vernacular language helps identify the setting and location of the play. The specific stage direction is successful for the audience to imagine the different settings of the play. The dynamic character helps the audience understand the character’s development. The comical tone of the play helps provides a comical relief from unsetting circumstances. Thus, though the symbolic narrative, vernacular language, stage direction, dynamic character and comical tone are sufficient to demonstrate and assert that the play does not need to be performed to convey its message because through the use of imagination a play is more powerful.
The symbolic narrative is an element that