Streetcar Critics Flashcards

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Tennessee William - what plays about

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“ravishment of the tender… by …modern society”

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Galloway - blanche is a moth

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Blanches desires “draw her to stanley, like a moth to a light”

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Hawkins - about Stanley

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Stanley “needs no motivation for anything he does”

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Kronenberger - blanche lying

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Blanche “lies to the world because she must lie to herself”

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Chapman - blanche fantasies

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Blanche takes “refuge in a magical life she has invented for herself”

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Bloom - sympathy for Stanley

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Stanley “cannot be blamed for protecting his marriage against the force that would destroy it”

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Fang - women relying on men

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“if women place their hope and fortune on men, their oppressed and subordinate status can never be changed”

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Duerre - blanche holds on

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Blanche “attempts to maintain her past luxurious life by holding onto and creating new desires rather than adjusting to her reality”

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Fang - blanches dependance on men

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“men are always the ones to whom she resorts”

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Costa - masculinity

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Williams play shows a “weak and unadjusted masculinity”

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Lart - Stanley’s role in blanches desruction

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Stanley is an “agent of blanches destruction”

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Onyett - blanche in society

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Blanche is a “social outcast”

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Galloway - nobody wins

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“everyone loses something”

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Berkman - Stella and blanches relationship

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“Stella must flatter her or lie to her in order to get along with her”

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Berkman - why blanche is illusionary

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Blanche lives in illusion “in order to bring herself to tolerate the situation in which she now finds herself”

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Lant - Stella’s weakness

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Stella “constantly refuses to look at things, to listen to the truth, or even to tell the truth”