A streetcar named desire critics Flashcards
(9 cards)
1
Q
Hovis
A
The Southern Belle persona is ‘both a mask and a prison’
2
Q
Bigsby
A
sexuality with the power to redeem and destroy
3
Q
Anderson
A
Blanche is an architect of her own destruction
4
Q
Kirby
A
Sanity is dependent on fitting in and adhering to the social roles expected of us
5
Q
Bloom
A
Stanley ‘cannot be blamed for protecting his marriage against the force that would destroy it’
6
Q
Galloway
A
the play has no clear victor, everyone loses something
7
Q
1951 screen product
A
Blanche looks Stanley directly in the eye when delivering the line ‘deliberate cruelty is not forgivable’ - and attempt to reassert her power and to push moral judgement onto Stanley
8
Q
Hern and Hooper
A
“Blanche holds the Wildean belief that ‘Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of art’”
9
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