critics on streetcar and duchess final Flashcards
stanley and blanche are …
opposing animals striving for the survival of their kind - BAK
we are all …
savages at heart - WILLIAMS
critical of stanleys destructive masculinity + violence
sanity is dependent on …
fitting in … adhering to the roles expected of us - kirby+
stella is torn between …
loyalty to antiquated idealism and brutal realism of the present - HAYMAN
major theme is destructive power of …
society on the sensitive non-conformist individual - WILLIAMS
stanley is a master …
player and Darwinian survivor - QUIRINO
threatened aristocrat
WHIGHAM
theme … is the act of sin and its consequences
Cecil
‘tragedy of a virtuous woman who achieves heroism’ through her death
R.S White
ultimate tragedy of Webster’s world= presence of EVIL AND DECAY
R.S WHITE
when confronted w/ female power + sexuality…
male characters react w/ extreme violence = WINDSOR
Duchess abandons her duties of ‘body politic’ for those of her ‘body natural’
Jankowski
Bosola is recognised as a man divided against himself.”
David Gunb
TEMPLETON
blanche, through her own “epic fornications” is just as responsible for her fall as the Old South is for its own demise
Robert F Gross
William’s landscape is marked w/ sites of captivity
