Blanche Essay Flashcards
Blanche essay paragraphs in order
Scene 1, symbolism, Scene 4, Scene7, Scene 10, Scene 11
Blanche- Scene 1 P
Williams uses costuming to establish a proper southern belle character named Blanche but uses lighting and Characterization to foreshadow and partly reveal her flaws to the audience.
Blanche- Scene 1 Ev
“Dressed daintily”
“White suit in a fluffy bodice”
“Incongruous to the setting” (foreshadows downfall)
“I won’t be looked at in the merciless glare”
“Tosses it down”
“Carefully replaces the bottle”
Blanche- symbolism P
Throughout the play Williams uses lighting to stress that Blanche is n t only extremely insecure but trying to hide from the truth, the truth that she is actually old or something closer to home
Williams also uses the symbolism of baths to show that Blanche is trying to wash away her past
Blanche- symbolism Ev
“I can’t stand a naked lightbulb”
“The dark is comforting to me”
“I don’t want realism”
“She cries out as if it was herself” (stanly had tested if the paper lantern”
“Soaking in a hot tub” (Stanly mockingly)
“I think I will bathe” (Blanche)
“Get out of the bathroom” (stanly)
Blanche- Scene 4 P
Williams uses dramatic irony allowing the audience to witness Blanche create her own downfall as she reveals her true feeling and thoughts on stanly to Stella while stanly listens and foreshadows Blanches downfall as Stella runs to stanly
Blanche- Scene 4 Ev
“Under the cover of the trains noise stanly enters from outside”
“Stanly Kowalski survivor of the Stone Age”
“He grins through the curtains at Blanche”
Blanche- Scene 7 P
Williams uses ???
Blanche- Scene 7 Ev
“Lie number one… Lie number two…”
“Her future is mapped out for her” (stanly)
Blanche- Scene 10 P
Williams uses costuming and characterization to convey that Blanche has given up on her facade and the lighting and stage directions to allow the audience to see that stanly completely destroys her
Blanche- Scene 10 Ev
“Solid and crumpled white satin evening gown”
“Drinking fairly steadily”
“Lurid reflection on the walls” (light mocking her)
“Inherit figure”
Blanche- Scene 11 P
Williams shows that Blanche is completely alone and mad in scene 11
Blanche- Scene 11 Ev
She believes someone is coming to save her however when a starter comes to take her sage claims “I have always had to rely on the kindness of strangers” showing she doesn’t have support from her family and it’s not completely her fault she’s the way she is
