critics Flashcards
(5 cards)
1
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mary ann corrigon
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‘we cannot understand behaviour until we see how the past affects the future.’
2
Q
harold clurman
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‘blanche is a delicate and sensitive woman pushed into insanity by a brutish environment presided over by chief ape-man Stanley Kowalski.’
3
Q
Katrina Duerre
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(Blanche) ‘attempts to maintain her past luxurious life by holding onto and creating new desires rather than adjusting to her reality.’
4
Q
J. M. McGlinn
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‘stella ignores the needs of others and eventually adopts her own illusion. life with stanley - sex with stanley - is her highest value. her refusal to accept blanche’s story of the rape is a commitment to self-preservation rather than love.’
5
Q
The New Yorker
A
’ a play about the disintegration of a woman … or of a society.’
