Conflict and familiar drama in Cat on a hot tin roof from Norbert Elias´ perspective of Social Figuration

This study aims to consider the family represented in Cat on a hot tin roof, a play written by Tennessee Williams in 1955, as a social configuration, a theory proposed by Norbert Elias, in his studies, such as The civilizing process (1993; 2011), in both volumes; and Established and outsiders (2000). Our proposal is to justify how this social configuration marked by such a Pollit family presents power relations along the lines proposed by Elias, that is, in a multilateral and non-hierarchical dynamic that focuses on each member as Big Daddy’s dinner hours are consolidated. In this sense, this study intends to analyze how the functionality of dissolving this power between that family members occurs. As a previous result, we understand that Eliasian theory can be applied to the family as a social institution of power, although entirely possible as a material reality.