Streetcar named Desire
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?- Created by: Sam
- Created on: 19-05-13 11:39
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- A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams. 1947
- Themes
- Dependence on men
- Love
- Abuse vs Passion
- Escapism
- Reality vs Fantasy
- Sexuality
- Relationships
- Stella and Stanley
- Blanche and Stella
- Blanche and Stanley
- Blanche and Mitch
- Characters
- Blanche
- (means white)
- Stanley
- Stella
- Mitch
- Blanche
- Quotations
- "Say, it's only a paper moon... it wouldn't be make-believe if you believed in me!"
- "I don't think I ever seen you in the light"
- "Having them coloured lights going...
- "flores para los muertos"
- Symbols
- MUSIC is an important staging aspect as it blurs the boundaries between Blanche's fantasy and reality.
- IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON literally charts Blanche's journey from her fantasy to her dreadful reality.
- FLOWERS. Mitch brings roses to Blanche in scene 5 (desire). But by scene 10 there is the flores para los muertos (flowers for the dead). Flowers go from desire to death.
- MUSIC is an important staging aspect as it blurs the boundaries between Blanche's fantasy and reality.
- Motifs
- Blurring of inside and outside. There is no safe place for women within the patriarchal society.
- LIGHT. Blanche desires to stay out of the light, for example she buys a paper lantern. This represents how she wants to hide her true self to both herself and others
- Themes
- IT'S ONLY A PAPER MOON literally charts Blanche's journey from her fantasy to her dreadful reality.
- The VARSOUVIANA POLKA represents Blanche's inability to escape her past and her guilt over the death of Alan.
- MUSIC is an important staging aspect as it blurs the boundaries between Blanche's fantasy and reality.
- MUSIC is an important staging aspect as it blurs the boundaries between Blanche's fantasy and reality.
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