A Streetcar Named Desire Flashcards

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What does Kathleen Margaret Lant claim about WIlliams?

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That Williams prohibits Blanche from the realm of tragic protagonist as a result of his own culturally ingrained misogyny

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How does Anca Vlasopolos interpret Blanche’s downfall?

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A demonstration of WIlliams’ sympathy for her circumstances and a condemnation of the society that destroys her

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WHat does Kathleen Margaret Lant claim about Blanche?

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Lant posits that Blanche had a responsibility as a wife to somehow rescue her husband from his own sexuality

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What does Judith Thompson say about STanley?

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He is endowed with the many mythic attributes of Dionysus

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What does Henry Bradshow Fearon say about New Orleans?

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To all men whose desire only is to be rich and live a short life, but a merry one, I have no hesitation in recommending New Orleans

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‘I’m looking for the Pleiades, __ ____ ___ _ _______’

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The Seven Sisters, but these girls are not out tonight. Oh, yes they are, there they are!

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‘Power and pride of a ___ ______ ___ __ ___ ___’

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Richly-feathered male bird among hens

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Who was one of WIlliam’s main inspirations growing up?

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T.S. Eliot

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Which poem was his main inspiration from T.S. Eliot?

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The Waste Land

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How does The Waste Land relate to ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’?

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Eliot manipulates the continuous parallel between contemporaneity (Stanley) and antiquity (Blanche)

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What does Stella’s name mean, and how is this ironic?

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Her name means star, yet, the sole character who looks up at the sky is Blanche

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WHat are the main quotes that show Blanche’s interest in Astrology?

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‘I’m looking for the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters, but these girls are not out tonight. Oh, yes they are, there they are!’ and ‘I’ll bet you were born under Aries’

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Why is Blanche’s interest in Astrology and constellations tragically ironic?

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She fails to read the signs of her destiny, her tragic blindness is all the more ironic as the omen is inserted by WIlliams just before the peripeteia - in the next scene, Stanley goes on the attack to eliminate his enemy

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WHat is the significance of Blanche referring to the seven sisters?

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Blanche trivialises the myth of the seven daughters of Atlas, who were pursued relentlessly by the mighty hunter of Orion until they were all translated to the sky.
- Both constellations rise in May and set in November, which is the approximate span of the play. In Ancient Greece, the constellation of Orion was associated with Dionysus (Stanley) and the Pleiades were known to antiquity as the Lyre of Orpheus (Blanche)

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How does William’s quote ‘all my characters are larger than life, not realistic’ relate to the Seven Sisters and Orion?

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The conflict between Stanley and Blanche may be viewed as the clash between two rival myths

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How does Dionysus’s association with hunting relate to Stanley?

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This si the first image we get of him, when he throws the ‘red-stained’ package at Stella, and in the earlier drafts of the play it was explicitly said that he did hunt it,

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How do DIonysus’ assumed animal forms relate to Stanley?

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He shows the bestial imagery throughout the whole play, and it is stigmatised by Blanche ‘There’s something downright bestial about him’

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What does Mitch say to Stanley at the end of the play relating to Dionysus?

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‘you…you…brag…bull…bull’, the bull and the goat were Dionysus’s favourite incarnations. Appropriately, Stanley is a Capricorn, born under the sign of the Goat, as Blanche finds out in Scene 5. The goat is commonly associated with lucifer

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How does ‘The Bacchae’ relate to ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’?

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