Streetcar Critical Quotes Flashcards
1
Q
Vitoria Elliot: “The poker games represent…
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… a level of society which is very alien to Blanche”.
2
Q
Tony Cout: “It’s as if New Orleans is…
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a character in this play, one that holds anxieties and passions”.
3
Q
Alfie Bown: “Blanche is a..
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figure of anxiety”.
4
Q
Tony Cout: “ Stanley Kowalski is a…
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symbol of this modern world, a masculine world”.
5
Q
Alfie Bown: “Patriarchy and capitalism..
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go together as two enemies Williams wants us to criticise”.
6
Q
Vittoria Elliot: “Clear light is the antithesis of…
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the fantasy world Blanche is trying hard to maintain and she knows it”.
7
Q
Alfie Bown: “A world that Williams creates…
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in which heterosexual male desire takes precedence over anything else”.
8
Q
Galloway: “the play has…
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no clear victor, everyone loses something”.
