Contrasts in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
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- Contrasts in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
- contrast in social class
- Stanley and Blanche epitomise this class struggle
- Blanche's feverish hysteria as a relic from a defunct social hierarchy and epitomises delicate femininity
- Elysian Fields offers Blanche the promise of a safe haven
- choice of setting is ironic since it rather becomes the site of southern decadence
- Elysian Fields offers Blanche the promise of a safe haven
- Stanley embodies aggressive masculinity distilled down to human form
- Blanche's feverish hysteria as a relic from a defunct social hierarchy and epitomises delicate femininity
- Stanley and Blanche epitomise this class struggle
- male versus female sphere
- Stanley's brute force dramatically opposes Blanche's faint and fragile disposal
- male versus male
- Mitch and Stanley
- Mitch is 'shy', 'clumsy' and slow - thinking, a foil to the shrewd, egocentric, domineering Stanley who is harmfully crude
- duly cedes his way
- Stanley as the proverbial degenerate alpha - male basking in hyper - masculinity
- animalistic physical vigour
- Mitch is 'shy', 'clumsy' and slow - thinking, a foil to the shrewd, egocentric, domineering Stanley who is harmfully crude
- Mitch and Stanley
- duality is an idea most prevalent in the opening of the play
- dualism
- contrast between self - immersed Blanche and the reality she is faced with
- contrast in social class
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