Gender in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
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- Created on: 04-12-17 13:14
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- Gender
- Poker night
- masculine environment
- women aren't allowed/ expected to be there
- culminates in violence
- tension between genders
- Blanche
- expects men to be courteous
- attempts to appear pure, delicate & cultured
- dresses in white, clothing that 'suggests a moth'
- virgin archetype
- preoccupied with her appearance
- in reality promiscuous & morally corrupt
- prostitute archetype
- crisis in identity
- stereotypically feminine
- English teacher
- stereotypes of the time
- aside from her alcoholism
- Stanley
- stereotypically masculine
- aggressive, dominant, abusive, animalistic
- double standards for sexual demeanour
- condemns Blanche's past & then rapes her
- Napoleonic code
- uses this as a justification to investigate Blanche's past life in Laurel
- desire to be considered the 'alpha male'
- 'king' of the household
- demeans Mitch for not being stereotypically masculine
- classifies & objectifies women
- Stella
- wants a typical nuclear family
- even sacrifices her sister for it
- submissive
- endures/ is even attracted to Stanley's abusive nature
- mother figure
- wants a typical nuclear family
- Mitch
- double standards
- he no longer finds Blanche attractive after he discovers she's not a virgin
- ridiculed for being less masculine
- double standards
- Allan Grey
- denounced a 'degenerate' for being gay by Blanche
- leads to his suicide
- perception of homosexuality at this time
- denounced a 'degenerate' for being gay by Blanche
- Poker night
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