DOM + SCND Critical Views Flashcards

Question

DM - White (poetic justice)

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'[villains] meet their death in ways which satisfy poetic justice'

Answer 2

'the presence of evil decay which drags all mankind to death'

Answer 3

'the system devours those who serve'

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'Bosola becomes a figure of class anxiety'

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'in this double position of wife and ruler, the Duchess becomes an uneasy and threatening figure'

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'a victim of the mythology of the Southern Belle'

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'macho need for control leads him to abuse Stella emotionally and physically'

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'when confronted with female power and sexual desire, more characters react with extreme violence'

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'where he cannot dominate sexually Stanley uses force'

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'Stanley, in his ignorance and insensitivity, destroys both Blanche's hope and illusion'

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'tragic energy derives from the collision between private will and public duty'

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'redefines female virtue as integrity not chastity'

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'Blanche's downfall is not due to her lies but to the world's refusal to accept her need for illusion'

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'The play exposes the fragility of the female psyche in a patriarchal culture'

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'the collision of tradition and modernity'

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The Duchess is understood by her political role primarily, giving her power not usually afforded to women in this context - challenges patriarchal structure

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The downfall of the Duchess is not due to a hamartia but due to her placement in a fatalistic structure

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- declines the anticipated female role as marital currency - has her own sexual agency

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Uses her to satirise the position of women in the 17th century

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Can be argued as a champion of proto-feminist values as she strives not to be repressed by patriarchal sexual convention - her downfall is a result of this repression

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She is heavily dependent on men, trying to please them and relying on them for her salvation

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Stella endorses the patriarchal world as she does not oppose Stanley's abusive treatment of her. The Nurse destroys Blanche's liberty and femininity

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A hero of the proletariat and a victim of his lack of autonomy within the social paradigm

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Written at a time of growing republicanism, just before the Civil War

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Draws upon the corruption of the bourgeoisie and their focus on material gain

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The personification of the bourgeoisie, her downfall presenting the inevitable collapse of the elite

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Presents a class struggle representative of 1940s USA, suggests the danger of crossing social boundaries

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He expresses incestuous desire toward his sister, manifesting in his obsessive concern over her marital status and his references to sexual fantasies involving her - his 'id'

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Freud - the suggestion that our thoughts, actions, feelings and behaviour are informed by the subconscious part of the mind consisting of repressed desires

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He is both deterred and somewhat sexually stimulated by Blanche's character

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She is both repulsed and attracted by Stanley's animalistic masculinity, perhaps as a consequence of her marriage to Alan Grey

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Instinct driven, pleasure seeking part of the mind

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The mediator between impulse and real constraints

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Moral conscience presenting social standards and striving for ideal behaviour

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Driven by desire and instant gratification, becomes violent and aggressive when this is not fulfilled

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Mediates between Blanche and Stanley as well as her own id and superego

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Presents an internalised sense of morality from social standards and strives to maintain a certain outward appearance

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The characters may be seen as expressions of Williams' own psyche

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'ultra-realist'