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Context
Expressionist Methods
Social Realism
Life after war
Sounds
Light
Blanche manipulates her sexuality
Dark
Blanche arrives
Untold secrets
Age/ Looks
Reason why she left Belle Reeve
Promiscuity
Alcoholism
Mental Health
Polka Music
Mental Instability
Inside Trauma
CH5
CH11
Light
Sent to Asylum
Truth Revealed
Promiscuity
Loss of Belle Reeve
Innocence fully disintergrated
Mental Health
Raped by STANLEY
Plastic Theatre
20th Century
Clothes
Stanley's Pyjamas
Blue Piano
Associated with 'Negro Entertainers'
Highlights Racial Diversity
Symbol of spirit of the area
Musical motif
Gets louder
Expresses the inc in tension
Blanche's Clothes
White
Innocence
Purity
Ashamed of Mental distress
Bourgeois upbringing
Adherence to a strict idea what a woman should be
Stella is a mediator
Polka Music
Associated with BLANCHE'S traumatic flashbacks and mental descent
New Orleans
Progressive
Homosexuality was tolerated
Focuses on social change
Ironic
STANLEY
New America
'American Dream'
Immigrant
Primalism/ Animalistic
Tennessee Williams
Lived in New Orleans
Sister had MH problems
Raised by strong women
Faced prejudice due to his sexual choices
Similar to Blanche
Epigraph
Hart Crane: 'The Broken Tower'
'Broken World'
BLANCHE and her addictions
Old South
'Southern Belle'
Contradicted by Promiscuity/ Alcoholism/ Mental Health
Belle Reeve
Old southern money built on slavery
'Vissionary'
MITCH
Reflects 1947
After WW2
Decline of the Old South
Civil War 1865
The Southern Gothic
Decay and Disintergration
Flawed Characters
Hegel
Tragedy caused by a clash between opposing ethical forces
Nietzche
Tragedy caused by a clash between opposing impulses
Apollonian: Order/ Conrol
Dionysiac: Chaotic/ Ecstatic
Complexity of BLANCHE