streetcar/malfi - critical view Flashcards
elia kazan
Blanche is dangerous. She is destructive… an unstable woman who had entered and threatened the security of a different world, and who was finally cast out, allowing that world to survive.
Lucky (duchess)
acts on human impulses,
she cannot control the consequences of her own actions
tenesse - streetcar
work based n destructive power of society on the sensitive non conformist individual
koprince
“Macho need for control leads him to abuse Stella emotionally and physically”
galloway
“The play has no clear victor, everyone loses something” (Similarly to Malfi)
brustein
conflict between blanche and stanley allegorises
the struggle between effeminate culture and masculine limbo
elia kazan
Stella is a refined girl who has found a
kind of salvation or realization but at a terrific price
Roider
“Inspiring” “role model”