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streetcar themes - Coggle Diagram
streetcar themes
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social class
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Blanches upper class status creates tension between her and stanley - blanche symbolises off south priviledge
when blanche loses her privilege status she attempts to regain it by emasculating and degrading Stanley
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death
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"they told me to take a streetcar names desire and transfer to one called cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields"
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contrasting is that Elysian Fields serves as a sanctuary for Stanley's pleasures and masculine dominion
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sexual desire
"it would be nice to keep you" blanche objectifying the young man. "keep" (possessive verb) assumes her power over him
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her sexuality is a patriarchal remark on how women were not seen as sexual objects until they were sexually objectified by men
"dark red satin wrapper"
Blanche goes against accepted societal norm that monitored and repressed female agency by exposing her sexual side frequently
flaunts her sexuality but is condemned for it while stanley sexual powerless is encourage as a result of being a "male bird amongst hens" providing a justification for his behaviour which is deemed natural and instinctive
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fantasy and delusions
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stanleys reality of a character represents that reality brutally triumphs over an illusive facade eg blanche
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