Streetcar Named Desire Context
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- A Streetcar Named Desire Context
- The American Dream
- ‘The ideal by which equality of opportunity is avaliable to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved’
- Closely associated with Stanley, believes that by working hard, he is able to move up in society - what he promised Stella? - this is why Blanche and Stan do not get on
- ‘All men are equal’
- Closely associated with Stanley, believes that by working hard, he is able to move up in society - what he promised Stella? - this is why Blanche and Stan do not get on
- ‘The ideal by which equality of opportunity is avaliable to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved’
- The Old South
- Rural, agriculturally -based and slave reliant economies and societies
- Due to the Civil War, Southern families began to collapse and die out.
- Belle Reve - a plantation of slaves which collapses
- Play is set in the aftermath of the Civil war - this is where the Northern + Southern States fought - with the North winning
- Tennessee Williams
- Edwina Williams, his mother, was a typical Southern Belle, but was prone to hysterical breakdowns
- C.C abused Edwina - had very unstable marriage
- After Williams mental breakdown in the 1960s, he turned to alcohol as a vice and form of escape - just like Blanche
- Edwina Williams, his mother, was a typical Southern Belle, but was prone to hysterical breakdowns
- Gender Roles
- While stereotypes against women are explicitly shown by Williams throughout the play, the stereotypes against men are nshown more implicitly
- Men were expected to provide for their family - going to work, being the bread winners, and women were expected to take care of the domestic sphere
- Societal gender norms negatively affect all the main characters throughout the play - driving them towards death, moral or mental destruction
- Men see eachother as competition ‘survival of the fittest’ -(gaudy seed bearer) - Mitch + Stanley
- The New South
- Focused on The American Dream + Individualism
- The American Dream
- ‘The ideal by which equality of opportunity is avaliable to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved’
- ‘All men are equal’
- ‘The ideal by which equality of opportunity is avaliable to any American, allowing the highest aspirations and goals to be achieved’
- The American Dream
- Focused on Industrialisation of America
- Play is set in the aftermath of the Civil war - this is where the Northern + Southern States fought - with the North winning
- Focused on The American Dream + Individualism
- The American Dream
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