Scene Five

Question 1

Eunice and Steve vs Stanley and Stella

Answer 1

Prolepsis to how their marriage could progress, places physical violence as a normal feature of a marriage.

Question 2

Blanche’s dramatic monologue
‘make a little- temporary magic’
‘caught in the centre’
‘paper lantern over the light’

Answer 2

Sexual desire, one night stands, tone of desperation, pity evoked, survival mode, Blanche begins to unravel. AO5- Blanche needs a man ‘for completion’ .
Centre of destruction, disintegration of Old South notions. AO4: the Duchess creates a ‘tempest’ for her brothers.
Light symbolism, performative quality of a woman.

Question 3

Blanche about marrying Mitch ‘I want to breathe quietly again’

Answer 3

Last attempt to settle with a man, she has to pay for her transgressions, she relies on Mitch to save her.
Marriage is the only path/ solution for a woman.