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Sexual desire - Coggle Diagram
Sexual desire
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What Blanche wears
- red satin
- silks
- costume jewellery
- Calls attention to her body & her femininity through her carefully cultivated appearance
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Meeting Mitch
- Blanche meets Stanley's poker-playing friends, she lights upon Mitch as a possible suiter & adopts a character she believes he will want to pursue
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- Interactions with men begin with flirtation
- Blanche tells Stella that she & Stanley smoothed things over when she began to flirt with him
Sexual desire is linked to destruction throughout the play
- Even in loving relationships, sexual desire & violence are yoked: Stanley hits Stella, & Steve beats Eunice
- The 'epic fornications' of the DuBois ancestors created a chain reaction that has culminated in the loss of Belle Reve
- Blanche's pursuit of sexual desire has led to the loss of Belle Reve, her expulsion from Laurel & her eventual removal from society
- Stanley's voracious carnal desire culminates in his rape of Blanche. Blanche's husbands 'unacceptable' homosexual desire leads to his suicide