streetcar named desire brief overview mind map
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- A Streetcar Named Desire
- Characters
- BLANCHE: mentally ill, middle aged protagonist & tragic victim, obsessed with desire
- STELLA: Blanche's sister, the mediator between her and Stanley
- STANLEY: aggressive husband of Stella, antagonist & tragic villain
- MITCH: Blanche's love interest who also has hidden desires
- EUNICE & STEVE: neighbours that show the dynamic of many couples in 50's
- Themes
- DESIRE: each character has some desire that ends in disaster
- FANTASY VS REALITY: try to show different parts of themselves to look better
- SEX & ROMANCE: can be seen to not correlate, sex is primitive
- DECEPTION: Blanche lies about alcohol, Mitch, Belle Reve and more
- NORTH VS SOUTH Stanley and Blanche represent different ways of life
- Symbolism
- ANIMAL: Blanche the moth, Stanley the ape
- LIGHT: Blanche hates, Stanley loves
- PLACE: significance of Belle Reve and the streetcar and Elysian Fields
- MUSIC: blue piano for loss, the Varrsouviana for death
- ANIMAL: Blanche the moth, Stanley the ape
- Quotes
- 'I have always depended on the kindness of strangers' - Blanche
- 'There are things about my sister I don't approve of, things that caused sorrow' - Stella
- 'I am not a Polack' - Stanley
- Motifs
- DRUNKNESSStanley drinks socially, Blanche drinks ant-socially
- Context
- OLD SOUTH VS NEW SOUTH: different ideals and ways of life
- SOUTHERN BELLE: ideal woman, Blanche wants to be
- NEW ORLEANS: full of different cultures
- OLD SOUTH VS NEW SOUTH: different ideals and ways of life
- Characters
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