techniques: streetcar named desire

Question 1

timeline of the play:

Answer 1

may to September, as tension grows, it gets physically hotter

Question 2

heterogeneous America:

Answer 2

diverse

Question 3

realism:

Answer 3

a 19th century artistic movement in which writers and painters sought to show life as it is rather than as it should be, realism rejects imaginative idealisation in favour of close observation of outward appearances

Question 4

foreshadowing:

Answer 4

Stanley intruding blanches trunk/ her personal space p18

Question 5

examples of expressionistic devices:

Answer 5

• the contrast of Stanley and blanche in the first scene
• the polka = symbolic of blanches inability to escape the past, using sound to show the pyscholigical decline
• blue piano = symbolises what blanch has lost

Question 6

southern gothic literature:

Answer 6

supernatural elements, mental disease, irony, and the grotesque - stories that deal with disturbed who are isolated from the world (this can be seen when blanche talks about the death of belle reve)