Streetcar AO5

Question 1

‘Pessimistic view of a

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modern man destroying the tender aspects of love Constance Drake

Question 2

‘The last representative of a

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sensitive gentle love whose defeat is to be lamented Constance Drake

Question 3

‘Dramatizing his (Williams’) belief that men and women

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find meaning in life through satisfactory sexual relationships Louise Blackwell

Question 4

‘Stanley and Blanche’s clash is

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not human against human but rather species against species John S Bak

Question 5

‘The course of history makes the

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main character’s displacement inevitable Anca Vlasopolos

Question 6

‘Has forsaken her

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past, and her previous identity John Hathaway

Question 7

‘Privileging her desire has made

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everything else… seem unimportant John Hathaway

Question 8

‘(Blanche) symbolises

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the repressed male homosexual John Hathaway

Question 9

‘Tennessee Williams

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equals Blanche Elia Kazan

Question 10

‘A character controlled by desire

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that leads her to her eventual tragic downfall into insanity John Hathaway

Question 11

‘The violence of that boy (Pancho Rodriguez)

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attracted Williams at the very time it frightened him Elia Kazan

Question 12

‘Psychologically fragile

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socially liminal and culturally dispossessed Nicola Onyett

Question 13

‘She (Blanche) is

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incapable of change Nicola Onyett

Question 14

‘A fish out of water

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from the beginning to end, a doomed tragic heroine Nicola Onyett

Question 15

‘Her quality is

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pathetic softness, not tragic strength Nancy Tischner

Question 16

‘Allegorises the struggle

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between effeminate culture and masculine libido Robert Brustein

Question 17

‘About the disintegration

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of a woman, or of a society New Yorker

Question 18

‘The southern Belle is

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both a mask and a prison George Hovis

Question 19

‘Symptomatic of

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society itself M Skiba

Question 20

‘Blanche is cast as the

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invader in an unfamiliar world that resents her Thomas Porter

Question 21

‘(Blanche) a ghost

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from the past Anna Shaw

Question 22

‘Used to represent the return

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of a repressed and corrosive past Anna Shaw

Question 23

‘She creates an illusory world

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to protect herself from exposure Anna Shaw

Question 24

‘Her promiscuity is a response

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to the horrors of the deaths she witnessed Anna Shaw