Critical quotations Flashcards
Clurman says
“Blanche suffers because of an environment that victimises anyone who refuses to conform to societal norms.”
Kazan says
“Stanley conquers with his penis”
Gulibert says
“In a patriarchal society, women’s bodies are colonised by men.”
Tolman says
“When Blanche acts as a sexual agent, expressing her own sexual desire rather than serving as the object of men’s desire, the patriarchy defines her as threatening, deviant and bad.”
Brown says
“Blanche’s abiding tragedy is sprung from her own nature from her controllable duplicity, from her pathetic pretensions.”
Vlasopolos says
“the troubling focus of the play is not just that a drunken man, left alone in a two-room flat… with his drunken sister-in-law, subdues and violates her, but that the act becomes public and the woman is punished.”
