Critics Flashcards
Tilsher
‘Blanche is a challenge to [Stanley’s] authority’
Tapp
Blanche Dubois is a victim of the mythology of a Southern Belle
Williams
One major theme for my work is the destructive power of society on the sensitive non-conformist individual
Lart
The play presents Blanche as a tragic figure and Stanley as an agent of her destruction
Onyett
In cruelly unveiling the truth about her scandalous past, Stanley strips her of her psychological, sexual and cultural identity
Bruestein
The conflict between Blanche and Stanley allegorizes the struggle between effeminates culture and masculine libido
Goodman
Allegorical representation of the author’s view of the world he lives in
Dusenbury
The plot is set in the times of an expansive socioeconomic change in America when the great Old South was about to decline
Porter
Melting pot of ideas where the values of the Old South were dismissed
Nelson
Their marriage is based exclusively upon sex and it is symbolized by the approaching birth of their child
Koprince
Stanley’s macho need for control leads him to abuse Stella both emotionally and physically
Bigsby on Williams life
Throughout his career he [Williams] was haunted by violence
Bigsby on Stanley
Stanley represents “crude forces of violence, insensibility and vulgarity”
Coult
Stanley Kowalski as a symbol of this modern world, a masculine wolrd
Coult
She is a relic of a time before the Civil War that divided America
Coult
as if New Oreleans is a character in this play, one that holds the anxieties, passions, and historical past in the fabric of its streets
Gilbert
the only things the two of them have in common is that they have strong sexual appetites and enjoy being in control
Reigh
Belonging to a modern America where hard work is needed in order to succeed and sport and popular culture have replaced intellectual pursuits
Reigh
lamenting the disappearance of the civilization and romantic chivalry that died along with it
Kinder
Williams is trying to convey someone who, despite her new-found poverty, still inhabits, or makes a pretense of inhabiting, the well-to-do world of her youth
Kinder
Fail to accommodate to one another’s linguistic needs shows us clearly that the clash that will so shock the audience at the end of the play is there in the language from the very beginning
