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Explore the theme of Desire in A Streetcar Named Desire - Coggle Diagram
Explore the theme of Desire in A Streetcar Named Desire
desire to escape reality
blanche's hamartia (desire to escape reality)
fountain of youth
her desire to stay young
lies about being stella's younger sister
Lydia Jack 12C
avoidance of light
make believe world
she sings paper moon
symbolises her need for feminine magic by like paper, he lies can be easily torn and expose the light of truth underneath
'she cried out as if the lantern were herself'
'I don't want realism'
frequent bathing
'calming her nerves'
emotional and physical cleansing
her prostitution
her avoidance of accepting who she is
desire for power/control
stanley
his sexuality and masculinity are interconnected
violent,brute animal behaviour and magnetism
addresses blanche in animalistic terms
he is the predator and she is the prey
makes the scene seem jungle like
lighting and symbolic language
asserts his aggressive physical dominance
rapes blanche
blanche
'I won't be taken for granted'
other
inappropriate desire
young men
kissing the young man foreshadowed her affair with the student
illegal
her affair with a student
the real reason she lost her job
uncontrollable sexual appetite is exposed
desire to loose blanche
Stanleys need to be in control
buys her a ticket home
'she'll go!'
'her future is mapped out for her'
desire to expose the truth
'putting on all this act'
taboo desires
homosexual
not respectable
undesirable
shocking
linked to shame
immoral
desire for sexual passion/attraction
blanche
uncontrollable sexual appetite
tries to hide
acts like she is innocent and pure
blanche uses the streetcar symbolically and tells Stella that carnal desire is not the way to run a life, despite using the car herself to get to Elysian fields
kisses a young man
flirts with stanley
relationship with student
she relies on being an object of male sexual desire
loss of a loved one
looses her identity and reason to live
haunted by this past
emphasises her femininity
provocative
wears a red satin robe
suggest sexuality
purposely changes under the light
her desire for Mitch
united in grief
family issues
Stella
makes excuses for stanley's violence
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refuses to believe stanley assaulted blanche
sexual chemistry
drawn to Stanleys brute, animal sexuality
hot and cold relationship
their sexual dynamic keeps them together
find quote about the dark
defends her relationship
Stanley
animalistic
'animal joy'
'power and pride'
alpha male
'get the coloured lights going'
violence
tossing meat
raw physical lust
sexual relations
he hurls himself at her physically and she accepts with delight
gives a loud 'whack' on her thigh
steve and eunice
Steve beats Eunice
deeply in love but lots of violence
ferocious underpinnings
sex and violence