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A streetcar named desire - Coggle Diagram
A streetcar named desire
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Sociopolitical
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South side was alienated from America and still had great segregation and there was cheap labour based on race.
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Mississippi represented the traditional intolerant ways of the south whereas New Orleans was the more modern, liberal south.
The hybrid Kowalski baby is born the same day that Blanche is raped and defeated representing the destroyal of the old south ideologies.
Socioeconomic
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Families like the Dubois’ wouldn’t be hailed as the American ideal but individuals like Stanley who worked hard.
Individualistic ideology was catalysed by World War Two where hard workers were heroes who overcame the Great Depression and the nazi’s.
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Gender roles
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Women in the workforce increased in the war, but pushed back into domestic roles.
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Religion and morality
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Blanche sees herself as dirty for sleeping with multiple men, yet Stanley gets away with abuse and rape.
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