"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 and cultural identity"
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Eliza Kazan
"Blanche is dangerous, she is destructive"
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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 by 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 is a refined girl who has found a kind of salvation or realisation 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 **** 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 alcohol, madness and promiscuity"
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
"Stanley is a sexual terrorist, a tiger on the loose"
Back
Arthur Miller
Card 3
Front
"Stanley believes in male superiority"
Back
Card 4
Front
"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 and cultural identity"
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