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Blanche - Coggle Diagram
Blanche
alcoholism
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Blanches alcohol manipulation is a representation of the effect the pressures on women have on people such as blanche but also represents Blanches vulnerability and lack of self control in any form. this leaves Blanche to be seen as a victim of the societies corruption at the time and yet Williams shows her being discarded and blamed for it - in that she is sent of to a mental asylum
critiques
'Blanche's abiding tragedy is sprung from her own nature...from her duplicity...from her pretensions' - Brown
'Blanche becomes a social outcast because she refuses to conform to conventional moral values' - Nicola Anyett
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'One major theme of my work is the destructive power of society on a sensitive, non-conformist individual.' - Tennessee Williams
religion
'God! Maybe we are a long way from being made in God's image, but Stella--my sister--there has been some, progress since then!' [p47] - speech shows: expressionist theatre, foreboding and animalistic metaphors for Stanley.
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'grunt', 'somebody growls', 'some creature snatches at you', 'something not quite to the stage of humanity yet',
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sex/desire
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the satin is significant due to Stanley wearing 'silk' [p90] presents the contrast of hierarchy due to Staley's real stability, family and sense fo control. Juxtaposing this Blanche wears satin - a fake version of silk - symbolising how her success is a farad which elates to a lack of control she really has on her life.
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'streetcar named desire' - a personification of her. unstable and constantly on the move. on the search for her next desire with an all encompassing hidden desire to be loved and feel safe.
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