A streetcar named desire critics Flashcards

1
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Hovis

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The Southern Belle persona is ‘both a mask and a prison’

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2
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Bigsby

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sexuality with the power to redeem and destroy

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3
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Anderson

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Blanche is an architect of her own destruction

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4
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Kirby

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Sanity is dependent on fitting in and adhering to the social roles expected of us

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5
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Bloom

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Stanley ‘cannot be blamed for protecting his marriage against the force that would destroy it’

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6
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Galloway

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the play has no clear victor, everyone loses something

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7
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1951 screen product

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Blanche looks Stanley directly in the eye when delivering the line ‘deliberate cruelty is not forgivable’ - and attempt to reassert her power and to push moral judgement onto Stanley

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