Critics Flashcards
Blanche’s arrival exposes Stanley’s “ignorance and shortcomings”
Christopher Holland
At the end of the play, Stanley’s marriage “will be founded on a lie”
Christopher Holland
Desire creates “a powerful bond between Stanley and Stella which Blanche cannot break”
Christopher Holland
Stanley Kowalski is “a symbol of this modern world, a masculine world”
Tony Coult
Blanche has “come in search of a hero who can rescue and protect her”
Tony Coult
“Stanley’s intrusion into the trunk marks the beginning of an invasion of Blanche’s self”
Jackie Shead
Rape symbolises the destroying of “the tender, the sensitive, the delicate by the savage and brutal forces of modern society”
Jackie Shead
The “coke spilling on her white dress reveals Blanche’s fear of staining her image”
Jackie Shead
“Stanley and Blanche’s clash is not human against human but species against species”
S Bak
“The decline of one cuture and the subsequent rise of another”
S Bak
