Streetcar named desire themes
These themes include:
Violence, Lies & honesty, loneliness & identity and sexuality
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- Created on: 10-05-18 19:57
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- Themes
- Sexuality
- Blanche's sexual weakness is exposed
- she views young boys as a prize or a possession
- 'it would be nice to keep you, but I've got to keep my hands off children'
- she seduces him before planting a kiss on the lips
- young man collecting The Evening Star
- The **** was inevitable
- 'geyser of foam'
- bottle of beer is a sexual image
- foreshadows Stanley's ****
- Stanley uses his sexuality to destroy her
- Stella and Stanley's passion is evident
- Stella walking slowly for sexual tension
- Stella's 'eyes go blind for tenderness'
- 'Low animal moans'
- Stanley is screaming for Stella to return
- 'STELLLAAA!!!!!'
- Stella walking slowly for sexual tension
- Stanley is a sexual manipulator
- 'sizes women up to at a glance, with sexual classification'
- 'earliest manhood'
- 'centre of his life'
- Superior to women
- 'pleasure with women'
- Blanche's sexual weakness is exposed
- Lies and honesty
- Stanley mentions a man called Shaw and a place from Blanche's past
- Blanche tells Stanley he hasn't met that man before
- 'the flamingo'
- He wants to test her honesty
- Stanley knows the truth and so does Blanche
- Blanche tells Stanley he hasn't met that man before
- Blanche admits she fibs a lot
- Reveals vague details about her sexual misdemeanours.
- Stella and Stanley know about Blanche's sexual active history
- 'it's my first time in my entire experience with men, and I've had a good deal of all sorts [...]'
- Reality & truth are often presented as light
- Deception is represented as darkness
- 'kept in the dark'
- means an element of truth has been withheld
- 'kept in the dark'
- Deception is represented as darkness
- Blanche admits she lies
- she's a practised liar
- boosts her self-confidence
- white lies
- the amount of lies she tells in the letter show
- 'for being such a liar'
- she unlovable her lies give her a mask of confidence
- she's a practised liar
- Stanley mentions a man called Shaw and a place from Blanche's past
- Loneliness and identity
- Mitch intimidates that he is lonely, since all he has is a sick mother
- Mitch confronts Blanche by telling her that he's alone
- 'you need somebody. And i need somebody, too, could it be - you and me, Blanche?'
- If his mother dies he will be left alone
- 'worries because [Mitch] is not settled'
- basic human need for companionship
- Mitch confronts Blanche by telling her that he's alone
- She accuses Stella of abandoning her and leaving her
- Blanche feels unwelcome in her sister's home
- 'you're all I've got in the world, and you're not glad to see me!'
- She feels neglected and unwanted by her sister
- nowhere else to turn
- Loss of Blanche's identity and world
- the loss of her home
- finds herself a barrage of noises
- '[a cat screeches near the window]'
- Mitch intimidates that he is lonely, since all he has is a sick mother
- Violence
- Stanley ****s Blanche
- exposes Blanche's sordid past
- cruellest act of violence in the play
- only interested in his own pleasure and comfort
- Stella is thrilled by Stanley's violence
- 'smashed all the light-bulbs'
- on their wedding night
- passionate but violent act
- 'smashed all the light-bulbs'
- Stanley yells at Stella
- 'red-stained package'
- 'heaves'
- paints a picture of the physical exchange
- Violence during scene 3
- hits Stella
- she knows what to expect
- Stanley 'tosses' the radio out of the window
- hits Stella
- Blanche is verbally violent
- 'able' 'fought' 'died'
- violent to Stella
- able to express violence through language
- Stanley ****s Blanche
- Sexuality
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