🚋• Streetcar: Character Expressions Flashcards
(7 cards)
1
Q
List Character Expressions for Blanche
A
- Dances on the edge of madness
- A faded manuscript of the old south
- Living in a dream to escape a nightmare
- Machiavellianism (The Dark Triad, + narcissism, and psychopathy)
2
Q
List Character Expressions for Stanley
A
- An engine of pure destruction
- Most unsettling symbol of reality
- Virility (the quality of having strength, energy, and a strong sex drive)
- The hammer that shatters southern gentility
- Hypermasculine
3
Q
List Character Expressions for Stella
A
- Emotional sacrifices/ compromises
- Bridge between worlds that crumbles on one side
- Adaptation to patriarchal society
- Blinded by desire
4
Q
List Character Expressions for Mitch
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- A knight in tarnished armour
- A good man poisoned by patriarchy
- Symbol of male emotional incompotence
5
Q
List Character Expressions for Eunice
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- Emotional anchor in a storm of chaos
- Mirror/ window into Stella’s future
- Realistic character
- Adaptation to society
6
Q
List Character Expressions for Allan
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- Blanche’s original wound
- Ghost of guilt and desire
- Casualty of homophobia and atypical/ hyper- masculinity
7
Q
List Character Expressions for Shep
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- A glimmering illusion in a brutal world
- A mascot/ manifestation of Blanche’s romantic performance/ final desires
