A Streetcar Named Desire - Critics

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W.J Cash
"In the case of Blanche and Stanley, she incited the outrage, he needed the victory. Both have their share of guilt."
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Arthur Miller
"Stanley is a sexual terrorist, a tiger on the loose."
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Koprince
"Stanley believes in male superiority."
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Nicola Onyett
"Blanche has become a social outcast because she refuses to conform to conventional moral values. In cruelly unveiling the truth about her scandalous past, Stanley strips her of her psychological, sexual and cultural identity."
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Eliza Kazan [Blanche]
"Blanche is dangerous, she is destructive. Under his [Stanley] direction, Blanche was an unstable woman who has entered and threatened the security of a different world, and who has finally cast out allowing that world to survive."
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Gilbert & Gubar
"Blanche is the complete opposite of a Kowalski. She is an ageing beauty; cultured, alone, stripped of her money."
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Judith Thompson
"Stanley's prosperity for violence throughout the entire play, he has to assert control over others."
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Samuel Tapp
"Blanche DuBois is a victim of the mythology of the Southern Belle."
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Harold Clurman
"Blanche is a delicate and sensitive woman pushed into insanity by a brutish environment presided over by chief ape-man Stanley Kowalski."
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Kathleen Lart
"The play presents Blanche as a tragic figure and Stanley as an agent of her destruction."
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Robert Brustein
"The conflict between Blanche and Stanley allegorises the struggle between effeminate culture and masculine libido."
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Eliza Kazan [Stella]
"Stella is a refined girl wh has found a kind of salvation or realization but at a terrific price."
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J.M McGlinn
"Stella ignores the needs of others and eventually adopts her own illusion. Life with Stanley is her highest value. Her refusal to accept Blanche's story of the r.ape is a commitment to self-preservation rather than love."
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Alvin B. Kernan
"Stanley is a realist who trusts only his own senses."
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Bilijana Oklpocic
"Williams portrays Blanche as the last representative of the Old aristocracy who tries to survive in the modern world by escaping to alcohol, madness and promiscuity."
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"Stanley is a sexual terrorist, a tiger on the loose."

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Arthur Miller

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"Stanley believes in male superiority."

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Card 4

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"Blanche has become a social outcast because she refuses to conform to conventional moral values. In cruelly unveiling the truth about her scandalous past, Stanley strips her of her psychological, sexual and cultural identity."

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Card 5

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"Blanche is dangerous, she is destructive. Under his [Stanley] direction, Blanche was an unstable woman who has entered and threatened the security of a different world, and who has finally cast out allowing that world to survive."

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Great flashcards! They were really helpful to look at. I even printed them out to have to hand, when i do my essays on streetcar.

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