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‘Both playwrights present a corruptive and dangerous world which threatens…

- - - - 'I couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley'
        
        Stella is completely reliant on Stanley
      - 'Stanley gives a loud whack of his hand on her thigh'
        
        sexual abuse
      - 'STELLL-AHHHHH!' - primal, pure passion - manipulates Stella into leaving Eunice's and having sex with him back in their apartment
  - - - Prop - Poisoned Bible used to kill Julia by making her kiss it
        
        Julia is duped by the Cardinal who wanted rid of her after she had discovered his secrets
      - We learn of the Cardinal's corruption through Antonio
        
        'he strews in his way flatterers, panders, intelligencers, atheists, and a thousand such political monsters' - contrasts ideal French court's 'judicious king that removes 'flatt'ring sycophants' from his palace
  - - - '[Brothers] not driven by possessive outrage but by a motiveless malignity' - Hart
    - - '[Stella] welcomes sexual violence' - Woolway
  - - - Implicit criticism of the hypocrisy of the Catholic Church
    - - Patriarchal society ruled in favour of men
      - Domestic abuse wasn't deemed illegal until the 1980s
    - - proper megA
- - - - 'Lusty widow'
      - Ferdinand - gives her the poniard - to the Duchess, persuading her to kill herself with it
        
        'Die then, quickly!' facade
      - 'Shows dagger' 'This was my father's poniard... I'd loath to see't look rusty'
  - - - rapes Blanche whilst wearing his wedding pyjamas (prop)
        
        Could be argued to be neutralising Blanche's delusions of grandeur
      - 'What I been missing all summer'
      - 'Ticket! Back to Laurel!' - leaves Blanche 'coughing, gagging'
  - - - 'She is totally powerless in the family circle' - Fort
    - - '[Blanche] is a disruption to his and Stella's relationship - Galloway
  - - - James I believed heavily that witches were real, even writing a book called 'Daemonologie', in which he endorses the practice of witch hunting, and any suspicious behaviour exhibited by women would have them labelled as witches, essentially ending their lives at that point
    - - Post-Suffragette movement and Post-WWII - Women were starting to demand more rights and strayed away from their typically domestic roles