Street car Flashcards
Blanche
feminine, stands out, wealthy, vulnerable, southern belle
Stella
1940s housewife, product of patriarchal society
Stanley
breadwinner, alpha, dominant
Mitch
Eunice
Allan Gray
He left Blanche with the desire of being desired by men. Since his death she felt the need to be loved.
Elysian fields
-final resting place of heroes, suggest those living there are the best of the best
Belle reve
Williams constructs Belle Reve as wholly symbolic of Blanche’s illusory existence. The old plantation’s name, Belle Reve, is a French name that literally translates into ‘beautiful dream’ suggesting and symbolic of her past and her desire for the future as a beautiful fantasy.
light motif
blanche hiding the truth
light reveals her secrets
blanche = moth, attracted to light and danger
plastic theatre
Tennese, play should be a theatrical experience
uses music to do this
varsouviana
-used to convey blanches story of her husband, ends in gunshot, disturbs blanche
tennesse williams
sister suffered mental illness, he let her undergo treatment that left her with negative repercussions, blames himself
scene 1
blanches arrival
scene 2
baby, Napoleonic code, learn about blanches past love, papers
scene 3
poker night, conflict
scene 4
blanche can’t understand why stella forgave stanley, stanley hears conversation