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Plot
Scene 1
Introduction to Elysian Fields/ Main characters
"Streetcar Named Desire"
Poor area of New Orleans
Midst of progression
Balance between grotesque and lyrical
Greek Mythology
Land of Dead
Foreshadowing Blanche's decline
Blue Piano
Meat from Buthchers
Animalistic
Primal
STELLA
Different background to Stanley
Social Class difference
BLANCHE
Visually uncomfortable
Shot of whiskey
First sign of alchoholism
First interaction with Stella
Dramatic Irony
Deception
Undermines the purity she tries to portray
Scene 2
Napoleonic Code
Role as hardworking, individualistic working class man
Fight to get what he feels he has a right to
Implications of gender
Dependence on each other as a couple
Financially
Emotionally
'American Dream'
Male Entitlement
Blanche is bathing
Cleansing from trauma
Blue Piano
Stella's pregnancy
Commitment
Affection for Stanley
Deeply intimate
Vulnerability
Stanley
Dismissive of Blanche's trauma
Demands papers for Belle Reeve
Scene 6
Date with Mitch
French
Alan Gray
Ends with hope
Scene 7
Time Lapse
Mid September
Not meant to stay for this long
Blanche's Birthday
Stanley reveals info about Blanche whilst she's bathing
Ironic
Contrapuntal action
Invader
Scene 8
Birthday
Stella goes into labour
Verbal Conflict
'El pan de mais'
Foreshadowing
Day of the Dead
Scene 5
Star Signs (Virgo)
TURNING POINT
Young Man
Uncomfortable
Blanche's predatory behavior
Ironic
Scene 11
Denoument
Survival of the Fittest
Blanche taken to Asylum
Scene 3
Poker Night
Blanche meets Mitch
Scene 4
Zoomorphic diatribe
Overheard
Plot Development
Scene 9
Anagnorisis
"Not Clean Enough"
Blind Mexican Woman
Dramatic Foreshadowing
Scene 10
Stanley Verbally and Physically destroys Blanche