Stella Flashcards
‘I don’t understand what happened to Belle Reeve but it’s ridiculous to suggest our family could have perpetrated a swindle’
Irony Stella tries to uphold her families respectability despite slavery’s associated with lies and deceit.
‘They come together with low animal moans’
Denotes beast like physical connection between them, highlighting Stanley’s raw masculinity and Stella’s surrender to his powerful animalistic nature.
‘Her face is serene in the early morning sunlight’
Soft and delicate likens her to typical femininity of gracefulness.
‘Her eyes and lips have that almost narcotised tranquility’
Blissful ignorance or peaceful detachment as she is deluded by love.
‘Thrilled by it’
Her subconscious attraction to his overbearing masculinity, embraces the intensity of his personality despite its destruction.
‘Degenerate’ Analysis
portrays outlook of 1940’s America on homosexuality something that does not fit into normalised ideas of sexuality.
‘Don’t ever believe it. Life got to go on’ Analysis
Forced to live in illusion due to her inability to be a new mother in 1940’s New America.
