context Flashcards
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Belle Reve
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- plantation- occurred post civil war- memory of slavery fresh- white supremacy- wear all white = reinstate this ideologoy
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Domestic abuse
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- Dad = alcoholic = abused mother = normalization of abuse- cockerels trained for aggression and stamina
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Old America
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- 1947, nostalgic interest in America’s past and the ‘picturesque elegance’ intrigued many urban Americans
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Gothic
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- Poe used gothic machinery to symbolize states of mind of his characters- unnatural- distortion of reality-cramped mindset
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New Orleans
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- Williams discovered sexuality and became practicing homosexuality
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Napoleonic Code
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made the authority of men over their wife and dam stronger – deprived women of individual rights
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Samson
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biblical reference, strongest man who ever lived, reference to God sees him as savior
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Feminism
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-There hadn’t been a queen since Victoria 50 years ago, - US didn’t have female president- reinforced sexist attitude women are inferior continentally,
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WWII
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- bitter taste left from wwII– Hitler plans to invade Poland – vulnerabilities that Poland undertook in wwII gave Williams foundation to create a character who is vulnerable when someone INSULTS THEIR ETHNICITY
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Realistic theatre
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Williams ; exhausted convention- ‘unconventional techniques’ doesn’t glorify ‘escaping reality’ but ‘allows you to reach a closer attempt of things as they are’
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Pathos
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scene 10- empathy shifts towards Blanche but also villainified with Mitch- Williams neither way is good
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Southern Gothic
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- takes classic gothic archetypal stereotypes eg damsels in distress portrays in a modern realistic manner
- eschews the supernatural, deals with distrubed personalities
