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SELF DECEPTION - Coggle Diagram
SELF DECEPTION
BLANCHE
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- lies so she can face reality
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- LIGHT, lighting is the reason for her looking old not actually being old - shields herself from the light of the truth
- hiding the truth about Belle Reve to soften the blow for everyone involved
IMAGINATION/FANTASY TO COPE WITH REALITY (Step Huntleigh, baths, paper lantern)
- Mitch's diltusionment about Blanche
- ALAN GREY - self deceived by marrying a woman
STELLA
- convincing herself Stanley didnt rape Blanche so she can stay with him
- convinces herself Blanche needs to be sent away in order to keep Stanley
- dismissal of abuse and domestic violence
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
- normalised after Poker Night
- Steve and Eunice symbolise how normalised it is
- Blanche is the only one to question the violence, Stella chooses not to see an issue
CONTEXT
- Tennessee hiding that he's gay until uni
- SETTING - Elysian Fields (paradise for the dead)
STANLEY
- magnified self importance because he lives in a patriarchal society
- 'I'm the king around here'
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