Symbols & Motifs of Streetcar
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- Symbolism &Motifs
- Bathing
- ritual cleansing
- she says they calm her nerves
- efforts to cleanse herself of her odious past of tragedy and promiscuity
- unable to erase the past, her bathing never ends
- Stanley showers after beating Stella, leaves bathroom feeling remorseful and calls for her
- the 'Blue Piano'
- depression, loneliness, longing for love
- appears when Blanches talks about loss of her family and Belle Reve.Also present during her meeting and kissing the Young Man
- rises when Blanche's hope rises
- the Varsouviana
- plays when Blanche talks about her past/husband's death
- represents disaster
- represents Blanche's loss of innocence
- Light
- Blanche avoids light - hiding from reality of fading beauty
- fading grasp on reality
- Blanche tells Mitch that being in love with Allan was like having the world revealed in bright, vivid light. Since his suicide, the bright light has been missing
- Alcohol
- Blanche & Stanley drink excessively - Stanley drinks socially vs Blanche drinks secretly
- destructive behaviour - Stanley hits Stella and rapes Blanche
- augments Blanche's gradual departure from sanity
- Bathing
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