Context
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- Created on: 02-01-20 13:42
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- Context
- biographical
- Thomas Lanier Williams III in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1911. His friends began calling him Tennessee in college, in honour of his Southern accent
- family
- Williams’s father, C.C. Williams, was a traveling salesman and a heavy drinker.
- Williams made his son go to work at the same shoe company as him bc he was outraged Tennessee didn't pass ROTC
- later years turned to drugs and alcohol as coping just like his father
- Williams made his son go to work at the same shoe company as him bc he was outraged Tennessee didn't pass ROTC
- Williams’s mother, Edwina, was a Mississippi clergyman’s daughter prone to hysterical attacks.
- Links to Blanche and her outburst??
- sister
- Rose, who had begun suffering from mental illness later in life, underwent a prefrontal lobotomy
- This event greatly upset him and left her institutionalised for the rest of her life
- Blanche? her mental illness? downfall and inevitable ending
- Williams’s father, C.C. Williams, was a traveling salesman and a heavy drinker.
- After being bedridden for 2 yrs as a child, Williams grew withdrawn, shy and fragile
- after 3 years in shoe factor had a minor nervous breakdown and went back to college
- family
- Thomas Lanier Williams III in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1911. His friends began calling him Tennessee in college, in honour of his Southern accent
- Literary
- Naturalistic/ Expressionist Theatre
- Naturalistic- started off as movementEurope 19th/20thc
- Naturalistic dramas normally follow rules set out bu Greek philospherAristotle
- "three unities' time, place, action
- extreme or tightened form of realism. Aimed to create illusions of reality through a range of dramatic strategies
- streetcar- uses extreme realism. Enhance poverty, insight into characters, audience feel connected, victim of their own environment
- "three unities' time, place, action
- streetcar- uses extreme realism. Enhance poverty, insight into characters, audience feel connected, victim of their own environment
- Naturalistic dramas normally follow rules set out bu Greek philospherAristotle
- Naturalistic- started off as movementEurope 19th/20thc
- Greek influence
- Streetcar- modern tragedy, tragic flaw etc
- Ancient Greek- satire, comedy, tragedy
- BLANCHE
- Ancient Greek- satire, comedy, tragedy
- Streetcar- modern tragedy, tragic flaw etc
- Naturalistic/ Expressionist Theatre
- Social
- WW2
- Post war America was very rich, soldiers coming back home looking to settle down
- Dying ideologies of the south played by Blanche
- Blanche and Stella, Belle rêve and eventual loss of it
- Dying ideologies of the south played by Blanche
- Post war America was very rich, soldiers coming back home looking to settle down
- Cultural
- old South
- New ideologies
- 'American Dream', more acceptance of diversity.
- Represented by Blanche, a place of high division between rich and poor.
- differing roles of men and women. Women expected to woe men
- Blanche, the way she was raised. now confused in the new world perhaps?
- differing roles of men and women. Women expected to woe men
- Role of men and women
- stereotypical roles
- women, domestic roles
- men - sole money earners
- poker, bowling as hobbies
- meeting friends, smooking
- men - sole money earners
- women, domestic roles
- stereotypical roles
- Sexuality
- Homosexuality not common and looked down on
- Williams explores this through Allen Grey
- WW2
- Historial
- WW2
- Post war America was very rich, soldiers coming back home looking to settle down
- Dying ideologies of the south played by Blanche
- Blanche and Stella, Belle rêve and eventual loss of it
- Dying ideologies of the south played by Blanche
- Post war America was very rich, soldiers coming back home looking to settle down
- WW2
- Cultural
- old South
- New ideologies
- 'American Dream', more acceptance of diversity.
- Represented by Blanche, a place of high division between rich and poor.
- differing roles of men and women. Women expected to woe men
- Blanche, the way she was raised. now confused in the new world perhaps?
- differing roles of men and women. Women expected to woe men
- biographical
- His vulgar and irresponsible male characters such as Stanley were most likely modelled on Williams own father and other Males who tormented him
- The Glass Menagerie- 1944, strong autobiographical elements, featuring characters based on his life
- Williams made his son go to work at the same shoe company as him bc he was outraged Tennessee didn't pass ROTC
- later years turned to drugs and alcohol as coping just like his father
- Hubris, Hamartia
- Greek myth
- Elysian Fields, Land of the dead- equivalent to heaven
- Greek influence
- Streetcar- modern tragedy, tragic flaw etc
- Ancient Greek- satire, comedy, tragedy
- BLANCHE
- Ancient Greek- satire, comedy, tragedy
- Streetcar- modern tragedy, tragic flaw etc
- Segregation laws
- New Orleans- diverse community
- Understanding setting after civil war- poorer agricultural south vs richer manufacturing North
- civil war
- Stanley and his friend as an example, chasing the 'American Dream'
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