Theme Essay Flashcards
Facade bc reality essay paragraphs in order
Scene one, scene four, scene seven, scene ten, symbolism
Facade vs reality- S1 P
Williams uses costuming, lighting and characterization specifically of Blanche to underpin the facade that she herself is aiming to keep up and the characterization of others to suggest she will be unable to survive in the setting.
Facade vs reality- S1 Ev
“Daintily dressed”
“Incongruous to the setting”
“Tosses it down”
“Replaces the bottle carefully”
Facade vs reality- S4 P
Williams uses stage directions and frantic irony to con at to the audience that stanly will stop at nothing to ruin blanches facade and ultimately her survival
Facade vs reality- S4 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”
Facade vs reality- S7 P
Williams uses characterization of stanly and Stella to undo blanches carefully created facade and ruin her chance of survival
Facade vs reality- S7 Ev
“Lie number one… Lie number two…”
??????something abt music
Facade vs reality- S10 P
Williams uses costuming and stage directions to show that bleaches facade has come undone and she cannot cope.
Williams then goes on to uses stage directions and lighting to convey to the Audience stanly completely ruins Blanche her facade and her change of survival
Facade vs reality- S10 Ev
“Solid and crumpled white satin evening gown”
“Lurid reflection on the walls” (light mocking her)
“Inherit figure”
“??? Driking
Facade vs reality- Symbolism
Through the play Williams uses lighting to show that Blanche is trying to hide, she hides from the light is she hiding purely because of looks or as the Audi ace knows is it something deeper
Facade vs reality- Symbolism
“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”
