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Core Themes (Sexual Desire (Stanley (radiates a raw, violent, brute animal…
Core Themes
Sexual Desire
Stella
Stella’s desire for Stanley pulls her away from Belle Reve and her past. Stella is drawn to Stanley’s brute, animal sexuality. Even though Stanley is violent to Stella, their sexual dynamic keeps them together. When Blanche is horrified that Stanley beats Stella, Stella explains that the things that a man and a woman do together in the dark maintain their relationship.
Stanley
radiates a raw, violent, brute animal magnetism. Stanley’s sexuality asserts itself violently over both Stella and Blanche. Although he hits Stella, she continues to stay with him and to submit to his force. While Stella is at the hospital giving birth to his child, Stanley rapes Blanche: the culmination of his sexual act with Stella coincides with the tragic culmination of his destined date with Blanche.
When he first meets Blanche he is very expressive about his sexuality, dominance and physical attractiveness
Blanche
She’s kinda preconditioned to be flirtatious, shes expected to have a man or else she’d be a spinster, so that’s kinda all she does, a teacher was literally the best she could do with a woman’s education. She operates in the world as the centre of male sexual desire
Flirting with Stanley, even if its innapropriate
She flirts with Mitch, adopting the guise of a chaste lover for him to pursue
Blanche is nonetheless constrained by the
expectations of Southern society. She knows that she needs men to lean on and to protect her, and she
continues to depend on them throughout the play
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Stanley
Modern World
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New working classes, middle classes
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Blanche
Old South
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Old, privilege attitudes
Relates to Blanche's traditionally fragile, delicate behaviour and how she's afraid of Stanley and his modern ways.
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