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Mind Map by Grace Fawcitt, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Grace Fawcitt
over 6 years ago
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A Streetcar Named Desire-
Theatricality in Blanche
- Costume
- Colours and patterns
- White is typically
associated with
purity and
innocence
- Scene 2: 'I like an artist who paints in strong,
bold colours, primary colours. I don’t
like pinks and creams-
- Ironically, she then wears a
'pink brassiere and white
skirt' in Scene 3
- Ironically, she then wears a
'pink brassiere and white
skirt' in Scene 3
- Contradicts this in her lack of
sexual purity
- Scene 2: 'I like an artist who paints in strong,
bold colours, primary colours. I don’t
like pinks and creams-
- Red symbolises
sex and desire,
but also
danger
- Flowers are temporary,
and bound to wilt
- White is typically
associated with
purity and
innocence
- Scene 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'
- 'gloves'= concealment
- 'pearls'- link to death at sea,
and yonic shape- sex
- 'gloves'= concealment
- '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'
- Scene 2
- 'a flower printed dress'
- 'a red satin robe'
- 'a flower printed dress'
- Scene 3
- 'she takes off the blouse and stands in her
pink silk brassiere and white skirt'
- 'dark red satin wrapper'
- 'she takes off the blouse and stands in her
pink silk brassiere and white skirt'
- Scene 5
- '"Right on my pretty white skirt"'
- Stained- corruption
- Coke bottle is a phallic symbol
- Stickiness of coke has sexual connotations
- Stickiness of coke has sexual connotations
- Stained- corruption
- '"Right on my pretty white skirt"'
- Scene 9
- 'scarlet satin robe'
- 'scarlet satin robe'
- Scene 10
- 'soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown'
- Purity has been corrupted
- Purity has been corrupted
- 'scuffed silver slippers with brilliants'
- Destruction of fairytale
- Destruction of fairytale
- 'rhinestone tiara'
- Like a costume
- False aristocracy
- Like a costume
- 'soiled and crumpled white satin evening gown'
- Scene 11
- 'red satin robe'
- 'Della Robbia blue [jacket].
The blue of the robe in the
old Madonna pictures'
- 'Madonna'= Virgin Mary
- Ironic due to her sexual promiscuity
- Facade of purity
- Ironic due to her sexual promiscuity
- 'Madonna'= Virgin Mary
- 'red satin robe'
- Colours and patterns
- Props, symbols and sounds
- Mirror
- Link to appearance
- Link to appearance
- Varsouviana polka
- Link to
Blanche's past
and madness
- Link to
Blanche's past
and madness
- Light
- Truth
- Truth
- Paper lantern/ Paper Moon
- Fragility
- Fragility
- Bathing
- Purity
- Purity
- Flowers
- Temporary-
inevitable
wilting
- Temporary-
inevitable
wilting
- Butterfly/moth
- Fragile, with a short life span
- Fragile, with a short life span
- White radio
- Alcohol
- Yonic imagery
- Rhinestone tiara
- Blue piano
- Reality
- Reality
- Streetcar
- Fate
- Desire leads to death,
be it literal or
metaphorical
- Women and gay men
- Women and gay men
- For Stanley, desire
leads to life- his baby
- Fate
- Grapes
- Link to wine
- Link to wine
- Mirror
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