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A Streetcar Named Desire- Theatricality in Blanche

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Edexcel A Level English Language and Literature: A Streetcar Named Desire. This mindmap explores theatricality linked to Blanche, including costume, props, symbols, and sounds.
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A Streetcar Named Desire- Theatricality in Blanche
  1. Costume
    1. Colours and patterns
      1. White is typically associated with purity and innocence
        1. Scene 2: 'I like an artist who paints in strong, bold colours, primary colours. I don’t like pinks and creams-
          1. Ironically, she then wears a 'pink brassiere and white skirt' in Scene 3
          2. Contradicts this in her lack of sexual purity
          3. Red symbolises sex and desire, but also danger
            1. Flowers are temporary, and bound to wilt
            2. Scene 1
              1. 'daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace, and earrings of pearl, white gloves and hat, looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party'
                1. 'gloves'= concealment
                  1. 'pearls'- link to death at sea, and yonic shape- sex
                2. Scene 2
                  1. 'a flower printed dress'
                    1. 'a red satin robe'
                    2. Scene 3
                      1. 'she takes off the blouse and stands in her pink silk brassiere and white skirt'
                        1. 'dark red satin wrapper'
                        2. Scene 5
                          1. '"Right on my pretty white skirt"'
                            1. Stained- corruption
                              1. Coke bottle is a phallic symbol
                                1. Stickiness of coke has sexual connotations
                            2. Scene 9
                              1. 'scarlet satin robe'
                              2. Scene 10
                                1. 'soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown'
                                  1. Purity has been corrupted
                                  2. 'scuffed silver slippers with brilliants'
                                    1. Destruction of fairytale
                                    2. 'rhinestone tiara'
                                      1. Like a costume
                                        1. False aristocracy
                                      2. Scene 11
                                        1. 'red satin robe'
                                          1. 'Della Robbia blue [jacket]. The blue of the robe in the old Madonna pictures'
                                            1. 'Madonna'= Virgin Mary
                                              1. Ironic due to her sexual promiscuity
                                                1. Facade of purity
                                          2. Props, symbols and sounds
                                            1. Mirror
                                              1. Link to appearance
                                              2. Varsouviana polka
                                                1. Link to Blanche's past and madness
                                                2. Light
                                                  1. Truth
                                                  2. Paper lantern/ Paper Moon
                                                    1. Fragility
                                                    2. Bathing
                                                      1. Purity
                                                      2. Flowers
                                                        1. Temporary- inevitable wilting
                                                        2. Butterfly/moth
                                                          1. Fragile, with a short life span
                                                          2. White radio
                                                            1. Alcohol
                                                              1. Yonic imagery
                                                                1. Rhinestone tiara
                                                                  1. Blue piano
                                                                    1. Reality
                                                                    2. Streetcar
                                                                      1. Fate
                                                                        1. Desire leads to death, be it literal or metaphorical
                                                                          1. Women and gay men
                                                                          2. For Stanley, desire leads to life- his baby
                                                                          3. Grapes
                                                                            1. Link to wine
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