Streetcar Critics Flashcards
Melbourne critics
Williams, as a gay man, felt he was particularly sensitive to the status of women, powerless
Stanley
- is portrayed as the personification of disgusting normality that will eventually inhabit the earth
B McConachie
Stanley is an empty shell held together by kinaesthetic body language learnt in the military
Bilijana Oklpocic
William portrays Blanche as the last representative of old aristocracy who tries to survive in a modern world by escaping to alcohol, madness and promiscuity
Emma Kirby
Sanity is dependent on fitting in and adhering to the social roles expected of us
Blanche
The protagonist’s behaviour is symptomatic of society itself
P Williams
Stanley is a territorial animal desperately defending his lair
T williams
Major theme - destructive power of society on the sensitive non-conformist individual
Play is an allegorical representation of Williams world as it says everything he had to say about society
Eric Bentley
Play=clash of the species
Joseph wood
Blanche choses the dead old southern culture. It’s however the only culture she knows about. Stella and he husband are a barbarism. In this dilemma Blanche choses the dead past and becomes a victim of it
Brooks Atkinson
Audience sat in the presence of the truth. Rare and wonderful experience
Samuel Tapp
Blanche is a victim Of the Mythology Of the Southern Belle
Tennessee Williams
We are all savages at heart
2 unknown
Blanche crabes magic because the bright truth of post war USA is too harsh to bear
The brutal clash between the blue-collar worker and the aristocratic intellectual is located in their struggle over Stella
Marxist - Robert Bray
Emotionally audience may side with Blanche,
But
Intellectually recognise Stanley as the survivor
