Explore how Williams presents desire in the opening of the play
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- Explore how Williams presents the theme of desire in the opening of the play.
- Desire is presented as all-consuming in the opening.
- Blanche's desire for REASSURANCE and COMPLIMENT
- Evident where she first meets Stella
- "You haven't said a word about my appearance."
- "I still have that awful vanity about my looks even now that my looks are slipping! [She laughs nervously and glances at Stella for reassurance.]
- "But don't you look at me, Stella, no, no, no, not till later, not till I've bathed and rested!"
- (About the over-light) "Turn that off! I won't be looked at in this merciless glare!"
- "[She rises] I want you to look at my figure! [She turns around] You know, I haven't put on one ounce in ten years, Stella?"
- Blanche's insecurity and desire for admiration even leads her to desire her sister's husband?
- [She hands a photograph to Blanche.] BLANCHE: "An officer?"
- Her upper-class instincts cause her to become interested.
- "Had he those on when you met him?"
- Evidently something to be attracted to in Blanche's opinion
- "Had he those on when you met him?"
- Her upper-class instincts cause her to become interested.
- [He starts to remove his shirt.] "Please, please do."
- [She hands a photograph to Blanche.] BLANCHE: "An officer?"
- Evident where she first meets Stella
- Desire between Stanley and Stella (equally as intense but healthier than Blanche's desire).
- "Catch!" "What?" "Meat!" [He heaves the package at her. She cries out in protest but manages to catch it. She laughs breathlessly.]
- "When he's away for a week I nearly go wild!"
- "Since earliest manhood the centre of his life had been pleasure with women... not with weak indulgence, dependently, but with the power and pride of a richly feathered male bird."
- Blanche's desire for REASSURANCE and COMPLIMENT
- Desire is presented as all-consuming in the opening.
- Blanche's desire for REASSURANCE and COMPLIMENT
- Evident where she first meets Stella
- "You haven't said a word about my appearance."
- "I still have that awful vanity about my looks even now that my looks are slipping! [She laughs nervously and glances at Stella for reassurance.]
- "But don't you look at me, Stella, no, no, no, not till later, not till I've bathed and rested!"
- (About the over-light) "Turn that off! I won't be looked at in this merciless glare!"
- "[She rises] I want you to look at my figure! [She turns around] You know, I haven't put on one ounce in ten years, Stella?"
- Blanche's insecurity and desire for admiration even leads her to desire her sister's husband?
- [She hands a photograph to Blanche.] BLANCHE: "An officer?"
- Her upper-class instincts cause her to become interested.
- "Had he those on when you met him?"
- Evidently something to be attracted to in Blanche's opinion
- "Had he those on when you met him?"
- Her upper-class instincts cause her to become interested.
- [He starts to remove his shirt.] "Please, please do."
- [She hands a photograph to Blanche.] BLANCHE: "An officer?"
- Evident where she first meets Stella
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