A Streetcar Named Desire- Scene One
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- Created on: 12-10-16 13:44
"Whisky bottle"
Blanche is trying to escape from her memories, reality and her nerves.
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"She carefully replaces the bottle"
Blanche is in denial about her drinking.
Blanche is adapted to hiding her evdience.
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"Washes out the tumbler at the sink"
Blanche is trying to escape from her past and reality.
Blanche is trying to hide her drinking problem.
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"Then she resumes her seat in frount of the table"
Blanche is stuck in a cycle.
Blanche is used to hiding her drinking.
Blanche doesn't want anyone to know about her drinking.
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"Yes, Stella"
Said by Blanche
Blanche blames Stella for her lossing Belle Reve.
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"I, I, I took the blows in my face and my body!"
Said by Blanche
Blanche endurded many deaths and they have taken their toll on her.
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"Graveyard!", "Deaths", "Dreadful", "Coffin", "Fun
Said by Blanche
Lexical field.
Death
Moftality
Hauted
Graphic
Image of death
Reality of death.
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"Don't let me go!"
Said by Blanche.
Blanche has had to deal with the deaths on her own.
Blanche is haunted by the words.
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"Rattles", "Hoarse"
Said by Blanche
Graphic description of death.
Unlady-like
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"Stuggle for breath and bleeding"
Said by Blanche
Alliteration
Place
Pair of adjectives- "Struggle", "Pain"
Audience's response- Sympathy
Poetic
Lyrical
Writers emotions.
Emotive
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"Death is expensive"- "Grim Reaper"
Said by Blanche
Real
Vivid
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"Where were you. In bed with your- Polack!"
Said by Blanche
Blanche thinks Stella is ruled by her desire for Stanley/sex.
Blanche has an inability to see people.
Bitter
Childish tone
Blanche blames Stella.
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"Throws the sceen door"
Stanley has animal sexuality.
Strength
Dominate
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"He is of medium height"
Stanley is average.
Stanley is nothing speical.
Stanley is just like other men.
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"Stongly, compactly built"
Stanley has a lot of strength and power.
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"A richly feathered male bird among hens"
Stanley's only intrest is himself.
Stanley is primitive and instinctive.
Stanley epitamies early man.
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"That bears his emblem of the gaudy seed-bearer"
Metaphore
Stanley is very proud.- Virility
Stanley is showy.
Reproduction.
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"You must be Stanley. I'm Blanche"
Said by Blanche
Blanche shows confidence.
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"I-uh-"
Said by Blanche.
Contrasts to past.
Blanche shows vulnerability.
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"In Laurel, huh? Oh, yeah. Yeah, in Laurel, that's
Said by Stanley
Stanley acts as if he knows about Laurel.
This foreshadows events.
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"The music of the polka rises up, faint in the dis
Frantic music.
Show the fragmentation of Blanche's life.
Played when Blanche is thinking of her dead husband.- related to the theme of Death.
The music is only in her mind.
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"The boy- the boy died. [She sinks back down.] I'm
Said by Blanche
Remembering her dead husband make Blanch physically and metally sick.
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"Two women, one white and one coloured, are talkin
New Orleans was multicultural.
Celebrating different cultures.
Repersents the present in which th eplay was set.
Show harmony between people.
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"Relatively warm and easy intermingling of race"
It's still very new.
There is still some tension.
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"Music of the 'Blue Piano'"
Name of recurring music.
It's constantly there.
Music is dream like.
It's a reminder that it's a play.
Has a symbolic meaning- Expresses the spirt of New Orleans.
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"roughly dresses in blue denim work clothes"
Working class.
Stanley is a man of the people.
Stanley is a blue collar worker.
Belongs in his environment.
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"Carries his bowling jacket"
Stanley is self confident.
Stanley is confortable.
It's a luxury item.
Stanley focuses on his own priorities.
He's a man's man.
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"Red-stained package from a butcher's"
Shows masilinatiy.
Shows prinitive quality.
Blood
Violence
Danger.
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"Bellowing"
Stanley stage direction.
Show's he's incharge and doesn't chare about others.
Has no control.
Is dominate.
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"He heaves the package at her"
Stanley is stong and brutish.
Animal sexuality
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"Come on. [He goes out.]"
Said by Stanley.
Stanley likes to be free and independent.
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"Dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice"
Blanche shows off as being innocent and pure.
Southern Belle.
Has elegance.
Has an inability to cope with reality.
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"Her delicate beauty must avoid a stong light"
Blanche's beauty is not quite real.
She got nothing that's natural.
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"There is something about her uncertain manner, as
Blanche is delicate.
If blanche heads towards the light she will fall.
Blanche may be unwanted.
Blanche is self destructive.
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