KEY THEMES, SYMBOLS AND STAGECRAFT per scene

Question 1

Scene 1

Answer 1

THEMES
*Primitivism
*Sexuality
*Culture

SYMBOLS
-red stained package of meat
-elysian fields

STAGECRAFT
-props (red meat)

-clothing (blanche’s white clothes show efforts to portray herself as pure. Her clothes contrast Stanley and Mitch’s denim work clothes and bowling jacket, showingh distincting betweeen the old south and new america)

-new orleans blues (sets tone)

Question 2

scene 2

Answer 2

THEMES
-power
-relationship between men and women
-masculinity
-deception
-grief
-sexuality
-appearance
-feminity

SYMBOLS
-red satin robe (alluring sexuality)

STAGECRAFT
- the polka starts playing (when stanley reminds blanche of her dead brother)

Question 3

Scene 3

Answer 3

THEMES
* Masculinity
* Appearance
* Violence in relationships
* Sexuality
* Age
* Primitivism
* love

SYMBOLS
-colour
-light
-red satin
-cigarette
-White symbolism of blanche’s name (blanche Dubois)

STAGECRAFT
-bright colours of kitchen (suggest pure masculinity)
-bright primary colours of mens clothes
-Blue piano plays whilst stanley is crying Stella