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Practice Prompt 3: Compare how space is used by Tennessee Williams’ play…

- - - - Bathroom (off-stage)
      - Bedroom
      - Balcony (off-stage)
    - - Outside (party)
      - Airstrip
      - Plantation
      - Bedroom
      - Hallway
      - Staircase
      - Living Room
      - Outside (Storm)
      - Basement
  - - - Big Daddy / Big Momma
      - Gooper / Mae
      - Margaret / Brick
      - Peter Ochello / Jack Straw
    - - Margaret as outsider
      - Big Momma / Gooper & Brick
      - Big Daddy / Gooper & Brick
  - - - Big Daddy / Brick
      - Brick / Maggie
      - Brick / Skipper
      - Peter Ochello / Jack Straw
    - - The Crutch
      - The Bed (epicenter / focal point)
      - The Liquor Cabinet (entertainment/distraction)
      - Cars: Cadillacs (symbol of freedom/escape)
      - The Mirror
      - The Doorway / threshold
- - - - Southern Gothic
        
        Themes: Racism, patriarchy, poverty
      - Themes: Horror, the "unspeakable", alienation, the sub-conscious
        
        Homosexuality
        
        Gender roles/constraints
        
        Transgression across gender (queering)
    - - Literary Drama
        
        Adaptation Theory
      - Southern Drama
      - Themes: Alcoholism, sexual inequality, relationship breakdown
      - Values: Often exonerates society / institutions and vilifies the individual
        
        Mae: Vilified / Mobilises children or fertility / wealth obsessed / unintelligent
        
        Big Daddy: Obsessed with immortality / "King Midas" / unable to "love" / uses people as means to an end / unfaithful(?)
        
        Brick: Idolisation of Skipper / Physical decline / Alcoholism
        
        Maggie: Catty / unfaithful(?) / wealth obsessed