Context

Question 1

Desire

Answer 1

• Haye’s code
• Williams’ sexuality and mental decline after secretary / lover’s death

Question 2

The Old South

Answer 2

• Southern Gothic: grotesque and de-idealised depictions of the South following the collapse of the confederacy, often featuring the fall of a plantation and eccentric Southern caricatures

Question 3

Gender

Answer 3

• After women gained the right to vote in the 1920s, the typical agrarian family structure of the South began to collapse

Question 4

Jungian lens

Answer 4

Blanche as a negative anima / imagined threat to Stanley

Question 5

Fantasy

Answer 5

• Lady Macbeth syndrome: obsessive physical cleansing due to shame - named after Shakespeare character that obsessively washes hands after committing murder, links to Bs bathing
• TWs sister and mother both experienced psychosis

Question 6

Tragedy

Answer 6

• Aristotelian tragedy
• Epigraph is from a gay poet who drowned himself at a young age - tragedy is present from before the play begins to its end, even when not eminent