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melodrama features

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  • highly emotional themes
  • music and stage effects used to heighten emotional atmosphere
  • plots including failed romance, strained familial situations, illnesses, suffering protagonists, villianous antagonist
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tragedy features

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-tragic hero w/ elevated social position and tragic flaw
- tragic hero not in full control of their fate
- anagorisis- as tragic hero suffers, they begin to understand their own destiny and nature more clearly
- catharsis- towards end of play, powerful emotions are purged

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southern gothic features

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  • often portrays old aristocratic family who are losing fortunes
  • characters experience forbidden desires
  • literature reflects racial and sexual tensions of old south
  • sense of evil lurks through ghosts/ living dead
  • edgar allan poe was southern gothic writer
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realism features

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  • characters are believable
  • costumes are authentic
  • characters are often working/ lower class
  • realistic speech used
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hesitations

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mostly used by blanche and stella to show their subordination

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grice’s maxim of quality

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= saying the truth, blanch breaks this when lying to protect her image

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politeness strategies

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e.g. approbation, stella uses politeness strategy of approbation to reassure blanche about her insecurities

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hedges

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used when characters are avoiding speaking openly and directly

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additional speech features

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face threataning acts, interruptions, minimal response

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dramatic techniques

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costume, music, lighting, stage directions

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decline of old south and emerging new america

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reflected through stanley and blanche’s relationship

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patriarchal society

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reflected in stella and stanley’s relationship as well as steve and eunices

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immigration to america from europe at start of 20th century

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stanley being from poland

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williams context

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  • williams was gay and promiscuous
  • williams as an alcoholic
  • his dad was an alcoholic and had an abusive temper
  • williams grew up in the old south so loved his traditions and memories but recognised its flaws
  • williams sister was taken to a psychiatric hospital for schitzophrenia
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stanley critical viewpoints

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  • stanley is a realist who trusts only his senses
  • stanley is a territorial animal defending its lair
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stella critical viewpoints

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  • like many battered women, stella is genuinely in love with her husband
  • stella is a refined girl who has found a kind of salvation or realisation but at a terrific price
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blanche critical viewpoints

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  • blanche is dangerous, she is destructive
  • the play presents ‘the destructive power of society on the sensitive non-conformist individual’
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symbol of moth

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represents blanche’s hamartia of being fatally drawn to desire as well as her fragility

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symbol of belle reve

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french translation for ‘beautiful dream’. is the only illusion of blanche’s which is actually real, yet it disintigrates into oblivion as blanche’s facade crumbles. dramatic irony as it represents death.

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symbol of elysian fields

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derived from greek mythology, meaning ‘land of the dead’. creating dramatic irony since blanche sees this as her place for a new start but it represents her resting place

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symbol of paper lantern

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links to theme of fantasy and illusion. it creates the illusion of youth and reflects desire to escape from reality by inhabiting fantasy world blanche can control

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symbol of shep huntleigh

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symbolic of fantasy world and illusion

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symbol of baths

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have a dramatic function- symvolise blanche’s desire to purge herself of her simple past

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symbol of allan’s letters

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remind blanche of her innocent, romantic past self

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symbol of alcoholism

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represents blanche’s desire to escape the present. drinking becomes more prominent as blanche’s facade crumbles

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symbol of flower lady

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blanche is familiar with death and it follows her

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varsouviana

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represents blanche losing her tenuous grip on reality

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blue piano

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becomes a motif that symbolises all blanche has lost

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symbol of the baby

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stella’s life is moving further from belle reve. birth in final scene cements dtella’s loyalty to stanley

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symbol of the cokes

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shows how stella is willing to invest in keeping others happy

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symbol of the birthday party

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pretence of tragic climax is created by stella, creating conflicting senses of support and betrayal

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symbol of meat

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portrays stanley as a masculine hunter gatherer

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symbol of caveman

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represents conflict between civilised and primitive (blanche and stanley)

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symbol of rooster

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represents stanley’s sexual magnetism and pride in appearance

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symbol of mitch’s mother

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represents mitch’s traditional values which aid and ruin his relationship with blanche

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symbol of cigarette case (scene 3)

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represents how blanche and mitch both lost someone they love which they bond over

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symbol of dancing bear (scene 3)

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whilst mitch is in awe of blanche’s elegant world, he will always fail to fit into it because of his social class

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symbol of plaster statuette of mae west

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presents mitch’s working class, popular culture background

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symbol of cleft in rock

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represents blanche’s desires to be protected by mitch

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scene 1

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blanche comes to elysian fields and tells stella about belle reve

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scene 2

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napoleonic code, stanley lets it slip that stella is pregnant and looks through blanche’s papers

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scene 3

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poker scene, blanche and mitch start talking, stanley hits stella

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scene 4

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blanche tells stella she needs to leave stanley

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scene 5

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blanche writes a letter to shep huntleigh, stanley discusses the flamingo with blanche, blanche kisses paper boy

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scene 6

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mitch and blanche come back from amusement park and agree they both need someone

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scene 7

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blanche’s birthday, mitch doesn’t attend

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scene 8

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stanley smashes a plate and gives blanche a bus ticket to laurel

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scene 9

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mitch rips off paper lantern, flores para los muertos

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scene 10

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rape scene

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scene 11

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blanche is taken by doctor and nurse to asylum and stella is with her baby

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