(Streetcar/Malfi) Good vs. Evil
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- Good vs. Evil
- Duchess of Malfi
- 'you were too much i'th'light'
- Virtue is often described in this period as that which 'shines forth'
- The Duchess' name is never mentioned, suggesting her title/ publicity defines her
- Duchess is virtuous and yet not associated with virginity
- Widows believed to be dangerous and sexual predators
- Leggatt believes in the Duchess' 'variety and vitality of her nature as a whole.'
- 'Mine eyes dazzle'
- Elizabethan belief that when one twin dies the other's soul does as well
- Eyes are typically seen as windows to the soul
- This line departs from the conventional blank verse (creating a disjointed effect)
- 'we are merely the stars' tennis balls'
- Lucy Webster: A 'world that is more sinned against than sinning'
- Elizabethan belief that fate was written in the stars/ predetermined by God
- 'Like plum trees that stand crooked over standing pools...o'erladen with fruit.'
- Weight of Upper Classes ('fruit') creates a crooked class system
- 'Standing' suggests putrid water + disease
- References the 'tree of life' in the Garden of Eden and the 'fruit' of temptation
- Codden: It is 'addressed to the courtly world outside rather than within the play' and that the 'spectacle cannot show the ideal but only narrates it'
- References the 'tree of life' in the Garden of Eden and the 'fruit' of temptation
- 'Tis your shadow/ stay it; let it not haunt me'
- 'Shadow' suggests dark twin/ reflection of Ferdinand
- The effectiveness of illusion becomes a defining dramaturgical principle
- 'Haunt' alludes to Protestant belief that Ghosts were damned souls trapped in Purgatory.
- Darkness/ Evil seems to emerge from within him
- Darkness/ night is associated with the Devil + symbol of death
- 'Shadow' suggests dark twin/ reflection of Ferdinand
- 'you were too much i'th'light'
- A Streetcar Named Desire
- 'I think I will bathe...my nerves are in knots'
- Symbolism of 'knot' represents promises & vows, such as Blanche's marriage
- Widows believed to be dangerous and sexual predators
- 'knots' also represent dilemmas, suggesting Blanche is a problem
- Blanche is followed by her own and her husband's 'sins'
- Reminiscent of Lady Macbeth, who is stained by her sins (seeking purity)
- Eliza Kazan: 'Blanche is dangerous, she is destructive'
- Symbolism of 'knot' represents promises & vows, such as Blanche's marriage
- 'daemonic disorder'/ 'coming downstairs'/ 'trots'
- Plosive 'd' alliteration creates a violent effect
- Imagery suggests Stanley is descending into Hell OR represents his working class status
- 'trots' has connotations of the Devil in satyr form
- Tennessee Williams: 'We are all savages at heart'
- Eric Bentley sees the play as a clash of "species"
- Darwinian idea of survival of the fittest
- 'I pulled you down off them columns'
- Religious imagery of descent into Hell
- 'coloured lights'
- Suggests religious idea of temptation OR complex 3D idea (life is not black and white)
- New Orleans was seen as a 'melting pot' of cultural influences
- Sexual euphemism
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- 'I think I will bathe...my nerves are in knots'
- Duchess of Malfi
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