Wuotes Flashcards
Onyett
Social outcast because she won’t conform to conventionally moral values
Stanley strips her of her psychology sexual and cultural identity
Clurman
Blanche pushed into insanity by chief ape like man Stanley
Tennessee major theme
Destructive power of society on the sensitive non conformist individual
Bentley - Darwinian
Sees the play as a clas of species
The marriage
Destabilised when Blanche arrived
Only restablished when she leaves
Craving magic
Bright truth of par Was America was too much for Blanche to deal with
Masculine ideology
Stanley represents masculine ideaology that rewards and heroic uses direct brutal honesty
Struggle over Stella
The brutal clash between new and old is located in their struggle over Stella
Torn Stella
Steals torn to her loyalty to the beautiful dream of the past symbolised by Blanche and lost childhood home Belle Reve and brash immediacy of her new life in working class NO
Shifting social structures
Stay with father of her child and send sister to mental hospital may symbolise shifting social structures in USA
Stanley threatened
Threatened by old fashion southern values Blanche embodies so he destroys the threat she imposed on his brave new world
Plea Williams
Desperate plea for the understanding of delicate people
Goodman
Alergorical representation of the authors view of the world he lives in
When did audience whoop
When Blanche was raped
Stanley is the…
King of the castle (woodman)
