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Themes in a Streetcar Named Desire - Coggle Diagram
Themes in a Streetcar Named Desire
Escapism
Escape relationships/men provide for women
within bathroom Blanche is able to escape. Staging of set means that bathroom is a separate room providing physical escape as well.
New Orleans is the last chance for escapism before death
Death is the ultimate escape
Sexual desire providing an escape, Blanche and Mitch, Stanley and Stella
Imagination
Relationships
sexual relationships
female friendships
family relationships
power dynamics within relationships
violent relationships
fantasy relationships
Insanity/Sanity
Role of women
Power dynamics
Men/Women, men are portrayed as being dominant
Death
Mental turmoil
mental illness
fantansies
loss
trauma
conflict
Loss
Fantasy/Reality
Blanche's fantasies she has in the bathroom
Harsh reality of the broken world which contrasts the dream in which the characters seem to be within
Shep Huntleigh, Arabian nights - Blanche lives within her imagination
Desire