streetcar context Flashcards
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commucation accomodation theory
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- people accomodate their communication activities to get approval and to set a positive image in front of the interactant
- the environment in which they are interacting also affects behaviour
2
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motivations for communication accomodation theory
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- individuals may accommodate to gain social approval, to reduce social distance, to assert domiance, or to demonstrate respect
- in Blanche’s case, this incorporates her neee for social approval.
3
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tennessee williams biography
his father, brother, and mother
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- Cornelius Williams increasingly abusive as his children grew older
- Dakin Williams: favoured over Tennessee
- Edwina Dakin Williams: somewhat smothering, may have had a mood disorder
4
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tennessee williams biography
his leg condition
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- diptheria. Diagnosed at 5
- caused his legs to be paralyzed for nearly 2 years
- his mother encouraged him to write while he couldn’t move, and gave him a typewriter at 13
5
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tennessee williams biography
his sister + effect on Tennessee
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- Rose
- slim beauty, diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent most of her adult life in mental hospitals
- parents approved a pre-frontal lobotomy
- failed badly, and she became incapacitated for the rest of her life
- may have been one of the factors that drove Tennesee to alcoholism
6
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tennessee williams biography
Tennesees beliefs while writing ASND
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- he believed he was going to die
7
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tennessee williams biography
Frank Merlo
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- second generation sicilian American who served in the US navy in World War II
- lasted from 1947 until his death in 1963
- he provided stability when Williams produced his most enduring works
- stanley??????
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tennessee williams biography
Tennesee Williams quote
I H O O M T F A M W W I T D I O S O T S, N C I
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- ‘i have only one major theme for all my work which is the destructive impact of society on the sensitive, non-comformist individual’
9
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American South
american civil war
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- disagreement between the northern states in which the federal government was based, and the southern states which broke away from this
- there were disagreements over slavery, which was vital to the southern economy, and industry, which was largely based in the north
- the southern states broke away, and the war began
- it ended with a confederate surrender in April 1865
- the south took a long time to recover. There is also no doubt northerners moving in exploited their defeat.
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American South
plantations
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- dominant in the south
- large scale cultivation of cash crops (sugar, tobacco, cotton, and rice) by enslaved Africans or indentured servants
- shaped the economy of the south
- the civil war meant a collapse in the plantation system, which was fought between the north and the south
- many plantations were destroyed or confiscated by the Union army
- the north emerged as the dominant ergion of the country with industrial, urban, and modern society, the south being the opposite.
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American South
southern belle
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- stereotype of a young, white, upper-class woman from the antebellum South, who is characterised by her beauty, charm, geace and flirtatiousness.
- she is also associated with the plantation system, aristocracy, chivalry, and racial hierarchy.
- the economic gains they gained from planations relieved her of the need to work, but it also left her financially dependent on male relatives
- reflective of inability to adapt to modern circumstances
12
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new orleans
New Orleans the french quarter
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- the french ceded it to the spanish for 40 years in 1763 and shortly after its’ return to the french, it was sold to the United States
- most of the french and spanish colonial buildings were destroyed in 1788 and 1794 fires.
- the old buildings and collapse of the plantations meaning the buildings, whatver their previous purpose, must now serve as apartment blocks for working epople. If they do not adapt (like blanche) they are useless and an obstruction
13
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new orleans
experience of the town
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- shouting of street vendors, selling tamales and flowers
- whooping of men returning from a hard day’s work
- chatting of women as they go about their chores
- frequent and violent quarrelling of couples
- blend of backdrop of blues and jazz
14
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the southern gothic
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