SOCIO-POLITICAL CONTEXT

Question 1

When was streetcar set?

Answer 1

post world war 2 in the 1940’s, prominently exhibiting the aftermath of the civil war fought between northern and southern states and abolition of slavery

Question 2

when was slavery abolished

Answer 2

1865

Question 3

what was life like In post civil war America

Answer 3

-industrialisation and modernisation of cities whilst south grew alienated

-increased integration of races and cultures within modernising states

-Deep South known as a place of maintained racist values and growing poverty

Question 4

what was segregation like in the south

Answer 4

-whilst slavery was illegal, the Jim Crow laws implemented by Jim Crow constitutionally announced that all races were ‘separate but equal’, and lack of equality was still prominent within standards of segregation.

-lynchings and kkk

Question 5

significance of the industrialisation of modern America in relation to symbolism of blanches rape?

Answer 5

symbolises the south being destroyed permanently on the night of the birth of Stella’s baby whose pregnancy acts as a clock counting down the ultimate and irreversible downfall of the traditions of the old south.

-rape symbolises victory snd ultimate transgression and pervasion of modernist America into the south, dominating the whole country