A Streetcar Named Desire- Context

1. Men had to work for their fortune
   1. Stanley

1. The South
   1. Old South
      1. Southern Belle
         1. Williams' mother
         2. Innocent and moral
         3. Believed in courtship
      2. What Blanche strives for but is actually quite different from
         1. Sexually promiscuous
   2. New South
      1. Stanley
         1. Immigrant
         2. Opposes gentlemanly nature of Old South
      2. Industrialisation
      3. Ended slavery and promoted equality
         1. Against traditional values which Blanche believed in

1. 1861-65
2. Slavery abolished in 1865
3. South were defeated by North

1. Had pre-frontal lobotomy that Tennessee opposed
   1. Left in vegetative state
   2. Blamed his parents

1. Williams was gay, something opposed at the time
   1. Like Blanche, his sexuality was viewed in a negative light (she was promiscuous, he was gay)
   2. Like Blanche's husband
      1. He was gay and killed himself because of it

1. Born 'Thomas' in Mississipi

1. Stanley

1. High levels of aggression

1. Became housewives again
   1. Very monotonous
   2. Had babies
      1. Like Stella
      2. Baby boom from end of war into the 1950s

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• A Streetcar Named Desire- Names

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• A Streetcar Named Desire- Theatricality in Blanche
• A Streetcar Named Desire- Theatricality in Stanley

Attachments:

• A Streetcar Named Desire: Characters- Stanley
• A Streetcar Named Desire: Characters- Blanche

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• A Streetcar Named Desire- Context Quiz

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• A Streetcar Named Desire- Question Structure

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• A Streetcar Named Desire- Scene Summaries