Rise of a New Social Order in ASND
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- Created on: 11-06-20 14:03
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- Rise of a New Social Order in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
- bourgeoisie pretensions as a lasting representative of old aristocracy
- Blanche's futile/ineffectual endeavour to survive in Stanley's New America
- Stanley as the epitome of American Dream
- conflict between values and cultures
- Old South embodied by Blanche and New America embodied by Stanley
- antithetical characters confined to separate (gender and class) spheres
- Stanley is 'a richly feathered bird among hens'
- 'what I am is one hundred percent American, born and raised in the greatest country on Earth and proud as hell of it'
- a naturalistic survivor of the stone age
- the curtain as a symbol of this division/dividing force
- Stanley is 'a richly feathered bird among hens'
- Stanley tears apart Blanche's facade of opulence revealing/unmasking the artificiality of the bourgeoisie class
- unattainable nature of wealth/superficiality of wealth in a new, woking - class society
- antithetical characters confined to separate (gender and class) spheres
- destruction /destabilisation of traditional society and fall of aristocracy which reflects Blanche's tragic downfall.
- Blanche as representing the final fall of aristocracy
- seeks refuge in alcohol
- 'I'm not accustomed to have more than one drink'
- embodies a cadence of aristocracy
- multiplicity of identity
- seeks refuge in alcohol
- Blanche as representing the final fall of aristocracy
- social drama where two diverse worlds collide
- past and present
- Old South embodied by Blanche and New America embodied by Stanley
- Belle Reve as a false illusion of pastoral beauty which is now a faded grandeur of the past
- requiem for Old South
- Blanche fosters antiquated ideals and pretensions about the socially elite
- falls victim to aristocratic deviation - animal - sex and short lived beauty
- Blanche as a paragon of old - world values/old - fashioned ideals
- nouveau riche
- inhabits her illusory, self - made world
- paradoxical exploitation of state
- complexity of social structure
- rise of capitalism/capitalistic values
- a new social order which abandons women outside of the social realm
- the **** symbolises a rise in violent masculinity
- bourgeoisie pretensions as a lasting representative of old aristocracy
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