Class/ Old V New South Flashcards
“It has a raffish charm…with rickety outside stairs and quaintly ornamented gables”
-personification of city creates the image of a poor but up and coming city reflecting the emergence of new America.
“Belle reve? Lost is it?”
- the loss of Belle reves represents the loss of control the old south had and the antebellum times
-Belle reve would have been a plantation with slaves
“The Kowalskis and the Dubois have different notions”
-characters of Stanley and Blanche are the archetypes of old south and new America
-shows the transitional time of America when the play was written
“Blanche waltzes to the music with romantic gesture . Mitch moves in awkward imitation like a dancing bear”
-contrasting images represent old south and new America
-simile of “like a dancing bear” present Mitch as clumsy
“He acts like an animal…sub human. Something ape-like about him”
-dehumanisation of Stanley and zoomorphism shows Blanche things she is better than him because he is from a lower class.
-class division
“What I am is 100% American and proud of it”
-Stanley’s pride in being American shows the new America values of pride in the country
“I pulled you off down those Collums and how you loved it.”
-hyperbolic/metaphorical for how Stanley took Stella from the antebellum way of life and showed her new America
-collums represent rich nature of old south
“She had decked herself out in a somewhat soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown”
-plastic theatre for blanches tarnished reputation
-image of a faded southern Belle- represents how the old south was losing power
“Diamond tiara?”
-the fact Stanley can’t tell the difference between diamond and rhinestone is an allusion to him being a lower class
“Blue denim work clothes” (Stanley) vs “daintily dressed in a white suit, necklace and earrings of Pearl” (Blanche)
-Stanley’s outfit depicts a working class man
-blanches outfit suggests old southern money(pearls) and the colour whites connotes a purity - southern belief
