A Streetcar Named Desire- Scene One

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"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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