Wuotes Flashcards

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Onyett

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Social outcast because she won’t conform to conventionally moral values

Stanley strips her of her psychology sexual and cultural identity

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Clurman

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Blanche pushed into insanity by chief ape like man Stanley

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3
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Tennessee major theme

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Destructive power of society on the sensitive non conformist individual

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4
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Bentley - Darwinian

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Sees the play as a clas of species

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5
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The marriage

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Destabilised when Blanche arrived

Only restablished when she leaves

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6
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Craving magic

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Bright truth of par Was America was too much for Blanche to deal with

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7
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Masculine ideology

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Stanley represents masculine ideaology that rewards and heroic uses direct brutal honesty

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8
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Struggle over Stella

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The brutal clash between new and old is located in their struggle over Stella

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9
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Torn Stella

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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

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10
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Shifting social structures

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Stay with father of her child and send sister to mental hospital may symbolise shifting social structures in USA

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Stanley threatened

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Threatened by old fashion southern values Blanche embodies so he destroys the threat she imposed on his brave new world

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12
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Plea Williams

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Desperate plea for the understanding of delicate people

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13
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Goodman

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Alergorical representation of the authors view of the world he lives in

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14
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When did audience whoop

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When Blanche was raped

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15
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Stanley is the…

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King of the castle (woodman)

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