Scene Four Flashcards
Blanche exposes Stella’s social Darwinism
‘But you’ve given in’ ‘You can get out’
Stage directions ‘early morning sunlight’
Symbolically demonstrates the normalisation of domestic abuse.
Stella- ‘he was as good as a lamb when he came back’
money to ‘smooth things over’
normalisation/ concealment of abuse.
Cements heteronormative stereotypes of the era.
Stella- ‘people have got to tolerate each other’s habits i guess’
AO4: Links to the Cardinal, marriage as a prison sentence.
social darwinism, gender roles established within the home.
Stage directions ‘Under the cover of the trains noise, Stanley enters from outside. He stands unseen by the women’
Train as a disguise- the absence of the female space, women have no safety/ protection.
Decoy is symbolic of the brutality of modernity.
Blanche’s dramatic monologue
‘something not quite at the stage of humanity yet’
Uses dramatic language to express her backwards views
