(Streetcar/Malfi) Old vs. New
- Created by: NHow02
- Created on: 11-03-19 14:30
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- Old vs. New
- Malfi
- French Court
- 'Like a common fountain whence should flow pure silver drops'
- Alludes to the 'fountain of youth', suggesting purity prolongs life
- However, Duchess' destruction suggests corruption drives society
- 'Like a cedar planted by a spring'
- In the Old Testament cedar was used to build the palace of Jerusalem
- Source of flowing/ moving water, pure nutrients
- Currents represent change & sharing wealth
- Hints at Duchess' reference to 'diamonds' as she is virtuous
- Alludes to the 'fountain of youth', suggesting purity prolongs life
- 'Like a common fountain whence should flow pure silver drops'
- Italian Court
- 'Like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools'
- 'Standing' suggests contamination + disease
- 'pools' incites reflection/ judgement
- Lack of sustenance/ nutrients. Sycophants ('crows') seek further corruption
- Natural image used to describe an unnatural society, creates a recessive effect
- Simile references the 'tree of life' in the Garden of Eden and the 'forbidden fruit'
- 'o'erladen with fruit.'
- Weight of Upper Classes ('fruit') creates a crooked class system
- Blble states 'nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit'
- Lucy Webster: A 'world that is more sinned against than sinning'
- 'Standing' suggests contamination + disease
- 'Like plum trees that grow crooked over standing pools'
- French Court
- Streetcar
- The South
- 'sunken treasures'/ 'treasure chest of a pirate!'
- Blanche's past prosperity opposes Stanley's socialist view
- Blanche is associated with slave plantations, and therefore the ruined South
- Stanley benefits from the patriarchy just as Blanche benefited from slavery
- Shawn Alff describes the play as a 'heathens paradise'
- Stanley is digging up Blanche's past. 'treasures' suggests he delights in her downfall
- Blanche's past prosperity opposes Stanley's socialist view
- 'sunken treasures'/ 'treasure chest of a pirate!'
- New Orleans
- 'primary colours'/'raw colours of childhood's spectrum'
- 'red stained package'
- Men were typically the breadwinners and provided for the family
- The jungle reference suggests these attitudes are still backward
- Eric Bentley sees the play as a clash of "species"
- Darwinian idea of 'survival of the fittest'
- Represents Stanley as a predator (dangerous to women/ Blanche)
- Eric Bentley sees the play as a clash of "species"
- 'having them coloured lights going'
- Sexual Euphemism
- Colloquial speech, suggests Stanley represents a recessive society
- New Orleans was seen as a 'melting pot' of cultural influences
- 'primary' excludes other players as collateral damage
- 'childhood' could suggest that for men, the world is a playground, and women are the victims
- 'Primary' alludes to the patriarchal society of post-WW2 America (men replaced women in industry)
- 'red stained package'
- 'primary colours'/'raw colours of childhood's spectrum'
- The South
- Malfi
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