streetcar illusions Flashcards
“the place has turned into Egypt and you are the queen of the Nile”
pragmatically references and foreshadows the quickening downfall of Blanche.Cleopatras hamatia could be suggested as her desire for a man which ultimatly leads to her own suicide, which is by a snake bite
“there is a picture of Van Goughs of a billiard-parlor at night. the kitched now suggests that sort of lurid noctornal brilliance, the raw colours of childhoods spectrum”
mimic the colours of van goughs famous painting “the night cafe”
he used primary colours symbolically, to represent the ugliness of life, raw and realistic, which play out in this scene.
“my rosenkavelier”
Blanche addresses mitch this way when he brings her a bouquet of roses. The knight of the roses.
atavism
usually used to express the recurrence or reappearence of certain ‘primative’ traits
“on;your edgar allan poe!-could do it justice”
blaches melodramic and horrific descirpition of the deaths that occured in her family is reminiscent of the work of Amerixan Gothic writer Edgar Allan Poe. She directly quotes “ulalume” which details the narrator unwittingly returning to the grave of his lost love
“arabian prince”
a series of middle east folk stories, dramatic Irony as this is clearly a projection of blanches desire. The young man stands “like a bashful kid” he is also holding a “cherry soda” which is symbolically American. This widly unfittinh comparison reflects her misuse of literature.
“looking for the pleiades, the Seven Sisters”
Blanche surveying the night sky, the pleiades were seven daughters of Titan, they bacame a group of stars. unlike the sisters blanche is alone as it becomes incresingly clear that stella sides with stanley-greeky mythology
