A Streetcar Named Desire Flashcards
‘Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light’
Blanche is very vulnerable
Delicate
Destructive
Light imagery
Fragile
Beautiful
‘Precious lamb’
The way Blanche refers to Stella is patronising
Gentil
Fragile
Delicate
Young
Innocent
‘with the power and pride of a richly feathered bird among hens’
Traditional man
Highlights the inequality between men and women
Birds use their feathers to impress females
‘I got an acquaintance’
Repeated
Threatening
Desperate to get Blanche out
‘I’m not accustomed to having more than one drink’
Untruthful about the amount she drinks
Blanche has created herself to be this desirable woman when in reality she is broken
‘Thank you for being so kind! I need kindness now’
Contrast between the passion and wildness of Stella and Stanley, and the gentil, purity of Blanche and Mitch
‘a hotel called the Flamingo’
Unbalanced
Plastic, garish
Seedy, cheap
Hotels - a place for infidelity and sex
Pretending to be someone you’re not
‘the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again’
Light imagery
Back into secrecy
‘Bath’
Like a baptism, washing off sins
Cleans herself regularly
Reference to Shakespearean tragedy - Hamlet & Ophelia
Privacy, only place we don’t have access to
‘spear his fork into the remaining chop which he eats with his finger’
Violent
Animalistic
‘I don’t want realism’
Everything about Blanche is fake
‘I have been foolish - casting my pearls before swine’
Pigs
Ungrateful
Not recognising the significance
