Stella's final betrayal of her sister is impossible to forgive Flashcards

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I want to be near you…

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…got to be with somebody, I can’t be alone!

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“I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can’t be alone!”

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tautology emphasises her inability to adapt to new America

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Blanche’s virtues

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clings to a social system of “aristocrats” and “working class”

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“polack”

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“what I am is 100% American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth

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Stanley as new America

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compromised of immigrants of all races with equal opportunity

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you are the one that…

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…abandoned Belle Reve, not I! I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it

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“you are the one that abandoned Belle Reve, not I! I stayed and fought for it, bled for it, almost died for it”

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the asyndetic list highlights her struggle and abandonment and reveals that holding on to the “ruins of the Old South” can only invite suffering

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Stella has forgotten…

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… “much of [her] upbringing” at Belle Reve

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the night is filled with inhuman…

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…voices like cries in the jungle

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“the night is filled with inhuman voices like cries in the jungle”

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plastic theatre emphasised by simile suggests Blanches downfall into insanity.

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Nancy Tischler…

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…sees Streetcar not as a drama of natural selection but rather as “a reversal of Darwin’s vision—back to the apes

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“Lurid reflections appear on the walls around Blanch”

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again PT crafts the diabetic quality of Blanches downfall as her inner thoughts are portrayed on stage.

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You ought to lay off…

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…this liquor. he says you’ve been lapping it up all summer like a wild-cat

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“You ought to lay off this liquor. he says you’ve been lapping it up all summer like a wild-cat”

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the zoomporhismo of this simile dehumanises Blanche and reveals her alcohol dependance as the catalyst for her insanity

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I couldn’t believe her…

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… story and go on living with Stanley

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“I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley”

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  1. her pronoun and Stanley’s name reveals the order of importance
  2. “story” - a product of her delusions.
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Stella is essentially…

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…submissive, self deprecating wife who tolerates and excuses her husbands behaviour - Koprince

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Oh God what…

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…have I done to my sister

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“Oh god what have I done to my sister?”

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the interrogative displays her guilt intensified by the exclamatory “Oh God” she is still a victim of abuse and pregnant

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the cycle of abuse as suggested by Lenore Walker

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1-tension building 2-acute incident 3- love contrition

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tension building

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“yelling “sit down””

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acute incident

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“Stanley charges after Stella

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love contrition

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see scene three stage directions

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“Stella ignores the needs of others and eventually adopts her own illusion…

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… Her refusal to accept Blanche’s story of the rape is a commitment to self-preservation rather than love…“-Mcglinn