Scene 5
- Created by: Lottie Deutsch
- Created on: 18-12-18 15:20
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- Scene 5
- relationships
- Stella and Stanley
- Stanley and Blanche
- 'before he throws me out'
- like their relationship the coke will boil over 'it foams over and spills'
- extended metaphor for B and S's fight over starsigns could be fighting over possession of Stella
- 'before he throws me out'
- Stella and Blanche
- 'clutches her hand and presses it to her mouth with a moaning sound'
- shows Blanche's desire to have Stella on her side
- Stella 'rushes to the door to meet her husband' and Blanche sits back 'faintly' -shows us how Stan reasserts his dominance on ever entry
- 'clutches her hand and presses it to her mouth with a moaning sound'
- characters
- Stanley
- his accent, 'Eunuss', highlights his difference to 'refined' Blanche
- Blanche's attempts to shut up Stanley fails due to his lack of education surrounding star signs - Stella must answer for him
- he is amused by the irony of Blanche being 'virgo - the virgin'
- he laughs showing he is one of the few people to see through her façade and also foreshadows him asking about Shaw
- he is amused by the irony of Blanche being 'virgo - the virgin'
- Blanche tries to distract Stanley with trivial matters but he cuts the fact: 'he can check on it and clear it up'
- uses imperatives to suggest dominance
- Stanley wont kiss Stella 'in front of her sister' - suggesting the future relationship B and Stanley may have
- Stella
- 'I don't listen to you when your being morbid'
- Stella is like an ignorant child who only listens when something good is happening
- 'I don't listen to you when your being morbid'
- Blanche
- she almost insults Stella: 'my sister's friends go north for the summer'
- suggesting Stella's life is too embarrassing to share
- she feels the need to keep herself separate from Stella as if she admits she is the same she loses all the chance of her old life
- suggesting Stella's life is too embarrassing to share
- Blanche asks if Steve 'killed' Eunice - points out how disintegrated Blanche is
- she has extreme reactions which contrast to Stella's mundance attitude show behaviour is normal
- mirrors Scene 4 reactions
- she has extreme reactions which contrast to Stella's mundance attitude show behaviour is normal
- Blanche compiles a 'book of words and phrases I've picked up here'
- she treats it like a holiday, not reality, until she gets back to her real life - Old South
- Blanche isn't blunt but instead use analogy of star-signs to communicate she wants Stan to be quiet
- 'they dote on noise' - constrast Stanley who is very blunt an matter of fact
- when Stanley mentions the flamingo Blanche 'touches the cologne dampened handkerchief to her temples'
- it is as if she is trying to cover up the stench of her past - links to when she says 'I've sent it and smelled it'
- Blanche tries to distract Stanley with jovial matters like her birthday - but she speaks with 'a note of fear in her voice' - this suggests Stan's power in scene
- 'soft people have to court the favour of hard ones'
- reflects how Stanley and Stella work but Blanche and Mitch won't as are both 'soft'
- Blanche romanticizes her prostitution by calling it 'temporary magic' - shows how creates a façade surrounding everything in her life
- Shep is her idealised 'protection' she imagines but will never have
- Blanche speaks truthfully to Stella about her age - 'I'm fading now'
- Blanche uses Stella's hanky to whip up the coke spill on a her skirt showing how Blanche's past was once white but is now stained and that Stella is helping her
- Blanche is attracted to the boy as he is young we see through repetition of young
- B regains confidence and superiority through Alan - before dropped palm leaf dropped superiority
- speaks in foreign languages 'merci' 'adios' and makes mitch bow
- she almost insults Stella: 'my sister's friends go north for the summer'
- Stanley
- themes
- masculinity
- Stanley arrives in his 'green and scarlet bowling shirt' asserting his masculinity and reminding us of his strength
- fantasy and dellusion
- Stella laughs at herself 'for being such a liar' which is a hysterical reaction
- she creates a fantasy world through Shep saying she is 'spending summer on the wing'
- this suggests she is trapped in her old life and wish to go back to it
- 'toucher her throat as though actually talking to Shep' this accentuates her dellusion
- Blanche links this boy and the others to her youth and Alan
- 'run along', 'lamb' mirrors relationships she had with her pupils
- Blanche stands 'dreamily' showing she has created an idea of youth and this young boy being Alan
- feminity
- 'I never was hard or self-sufficient enough'
- the kind of woman you have to be in the new world to succeed
- 'men don't even admit your existence unless your making love to them'
- role of women was desire of children
- 'I never was hard or self-sufficient enough'
- sexuality
- Eunice and Steve fight melo-dramatically
- 'shouts in terrible wrath' 'appears with daemonic disorder'
- use of hyperbole show primitive state of excessive emotions like Stanley and Stella's fight
- the return 'her sobbing on his shoulder' - shows quick way to make up - trapped in cycle like Stan and Stella
- 'shouts in terrible wrath' 'appears with daemonic disorder'
- Blanches says a 'good-night kiss' is all she has given Mitch
- shows she controls men through her sexuality as if it is a gift to be 'given'
- before the young boy arrives Blanche 'picks up a hand mirror' - shows she is concerned about her appearance
- the boy calls Blanche 'ma'am' immediately asserting her dominance
- wants to be in situation that makes her feel powerful
- 'could you give me a light' 'its a bit tempramental' - shows his youth, innuendo
- the time 'so late' - extended metaphor for Blanche being late in life
- the boy calls Blanche 'ma'am' immediately asserting her dominance
- Eunice and Steve fight melo-dramatically
- interior and exterior apperance
- Blanche is seen 'fanning herself with a palm leaf' - she is trying appear to superior to Stella and Stan
- masculinity
- relationships
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