Critical Links Flashcards
How is Van Gogh’s ‘the night cafe’ used in relation to streetcar?
It is used as an inspriation to set designers when they are creating set designs for streetcar.
How does streetcar link to ‘La dame aux camellias’?
Both blanche and marguerite are frail, tragic heros who are tainted by their past sexual escapades. Both hope for a future with an innocent and good natured man. Both fail to achieve their aspiration and meet tragic ends in their stories arch.
What does Stanley’s quote “every man is a king” link to?
American populist politician and 40th governer of Louisiana Huey Long. The quote is one of his famous political slogans which Long said in his campaign to become president, which he never got to complete.
How does blanche link to Laura in Williams’ ‘the glass menagerie’
the two women failed to succeed because the personal features of their personality (tenderness, shyness, romanticism, restraint) contradict the objective and material characteristics of a society
in which individualism and a competitive nature ultimately prevail.
How does ‘the Glass menagerie’ help us in understanding blanche’s motives?
William’s illustrates in the play how women are unable to survive as they lack the required respect. This gives a viable jsutification as to why Blanche is so desperate to get married. She knows she cannot truly live a life in the world and be offered a degree of authentic respect as long as she is not a married woman.
How does Miller’s ‘death of a salesman’ link to streetcar?
It portrays a family through the generations and explores the interactions between dreams and reality in the form of willy loman and his deteriorating mental state and the web of lies that surrounds both stories. Willy has distorted visions of the american dream and his position in society which link to blanche’s distorted view aswell.
How does blanche link to Laura in ‘the glass menagerie’?
They are both faded southern belles who yearn for their youth and times of confort, they both also lack respect from society due to them not having a male figure beside them.
