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ASND and TCP: Critics - Coggle Diagram
ASND and TCP: Critics
ASND
- Kirby - 'Sanity is dependent on fitting in and adhering to the social roles expected of us' - loneliness
- Hovis - 'The Southern Belle is both a mask and a prison' -Identity
- Elia Kazan - 'Stella is a refined girl who has found a kind of salvation or realization but at a terrific price'
- Samuel Tapp - 'Blache Dubois is a victim of the mythology of the Southern Belle
- Tennessee Williams - 'One major theme for my work is the destructive power of society on the sensitive non-conformist individual'
- McGlinn - 'Her refusal to accept Blanche's story of the rape is a commitment to self-preservation rather than love'
- Ruby Cohn - 'Stanley has trained his wife to catch his meat, in every sense'
- Robert Brustein - 'The conflict between Blanche and Stanley allegorises the struggle between effeminate culture and masculine libido'
ASND
- Marxist - A Marxist critic would feel satisfied that Stanley is triumphant in the end over Blanche, that he won the power struggle. Symbolically he has represented the North defeating the South, which Blanche is symbolic of
- Feminist - A Feminist critic would sympathise with the women in this play as they are all victims of powerful men. They would also feel disappointed by the fact that Blanche was challenging Stanley but her own desires and delusions caused her to lose the battle
TCP
- Harris - 'Fairy tale' ending
- Zephianiah - 'The great irony about The Colour Purple is that it transcends colour'
- Brown - 'Families are not always sanctuaries'
- S. Bubb - 'There is a strong sense of individuals being trapped by circumstance beyond their control, or by the harshness of the society they find themselves in'
- G. Steinam - 'The colour pruple symbolises the miracle of human possibilties'
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