Modern tragedy in TennesseeWilliams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) and Wole Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman(1975)
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2020
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Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou
Abstract
This dissertation is a comparative study between American playwright Tennessee Williams’
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955) and the Nigerian playwright Wole Soyinka’s Death and the
King’s Horseman (1975). Our main purpose in this research paper is to study how
modern tragedy is depicted in the selected plays and to examine the analogies between
them. Relaying on Arthur miller’s theory Tragedy and the Common Man (1949), we have
deduced that the two plays depict the tragic fate of the common man. Our discussion is
divided into three chapters. The first chapter deals with the tragic heroes as ordinary
people and their struggle for dignity, whereas the second chapter discusses two other
characters as anti-heroes and their failure. Finally, the third chapter tackles the effect of
social dominance over the main characters in a modern world.
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30cm ; 61p.
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tragedy, common man, tragic hero, anti-hero, failure, social dominance, modern world, Soyinka, Williams.
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Literature and Interdisciplinary Approaches