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Mind Map by Maria Oliver1405, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Maria Oliver1405
over 8 years ago
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A Streetcar Named
Desire: Themes
- Worlds
- Old
- Plantations, slavery/inequality
- Poetry, literature
and music
- Decay and Death
- Houses are white-framed, weathered and grey
- Houses are white-framed, weathered and grey
- Cavaliers and cotton fields
- Elysian Fields and New Orleans
- Plantations, slavery/inequality
- New
- Industrial, cosmopolitan
- Streetcar: driving force through play
- Streetcar: driving force through play
- American Dream:
opportunities for all
- New Orleans
- New Orleans
- Stanley and Stella
- Industrial, cosmopolitan
- Old
- Death
- Blanche
- Obsessive thoughts
- Dreams of
being "buried at
sea sewn up in
a white sack" 85
- Assertion of
sexuality to
younger men
in the hope to
avoid ageing
and relive
girlhood
- Death of family members
- "I,I took the blows in
my face and body! All of
those deaths! The long
parade to the
graveyard!"
- "I,I took the blows in
my face and body! All of
those deaths! The long
parade to the
graveyard!"
- Dreams of
being "buried at
sea sewn up in
a white sack" 85
- Suicide of young husband
- Reminders
- Inscription on Mitch cigarette case/Mexican florist
- Inscription on Mitch cigarette case/Mexican florist
- Obsessive thoughts
- Cemetries
- Blanche: "They told me to take a streetcar
named Desire, and then transfer to one
called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get
off at-Elysian Fields"
- Blanche: "They told me to take a streetcar
named Desire, and then transfer to one
called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get
off at-Elysian Fields"
- Blanche
- Survival of the Fittest
- Stanley represents brute animal force
- Stanley
- Unrefined manhood
- Primitive
- Carries bowling jacket and
red-stained package from
Butcher
- Carries bowling jacket and
red-stained package from
Butcher
- Unrefined manhood
- "Animal joy in his being is
implicit in his movements
and attitudes"
- Stanley
- Stella
- Survives by
mixing DuBois
blood with
common stock
of Kowalski
- Old south can only live on in a diluted bastardised form
- Old south can only live on in a diluted bastardised form
- Survives by
mixing DuBois
blood with
common stock
of Kowalski
- Blanche
- Madness
- "I can't be alone!"1
- Tries to resolve
loneliness in sexual
affairs with
strangers
- Tries to resolve
loneliness in sexual
affairs with
strangers
- "I can't be alone!"1
- Madness
- Stanley represents brute animal force
- Conflict
- Romance vs. Realism
- Blanche
cannot
tolerate
bond
between
Stella
and
Stanley
- Blanche is romantic vs. Stanley the realist
- Blanche
wants
realism not
magic: seeks
to
manipulate
reality until
it is what
she wants it
to be
- Blanche
wants
realism not
magic: seeks
to
manipulate
reality until
it is what
she wants it
to be
- Blanche is romantic vs. Stanley the realist
- Blanche
cannot
tolerate
bond
between
Stella
and
Stanley
- Fantasy and Illusion
- Blanche
- Dwells in illusion, fantasy is her
primary means of self defence
- Fantasy protects her from
tragedies she has to endure
- Fantasy protects her from
tragedies she has to endure
- "A women's charm is 50% illusion" SC2
- Dwells in illusion, fantasy is her
primary means of self defence
- Blanche
- Desire vs. Fate
- Desire caused
Blanche to be driven
out of old world/life
- Desire also
Blanche's
undoing-cant
find a way of
dealing with
natural urges
- Desire also
Blanche's
undoing-cant
find a way of
dealing with
natural urges
- Physical Desire at
heart of Stella and
Stanley relationship
- Desire caused
Blanche to be driven
out of old world/life
- Romance vs. Realism
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