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Mind Map by Emily Garvin-Howard, updated more than 1 year ago
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Relationships in A Streetcar Named
Desire
- Stanley and
Stella
- Gender roles
- Stanley = masculine, and
therefore dominant
- Stanley is agressive,
violent, and abusive
- Stanley is agressive,
violent, and abusive
- Stella = feminine, and
therefore submissive
- Stella's pregnancy reinforces the image
of women as being mothers and wives
- Relates to the context of
being a married woman
with children in the 1940s,
what makes you a woman.
- Relates to the context of
being a married woman
with children in the 1940s,
what makes you a woman.
- Stella's pregnancy reinforces the image
of women as being mothers and wives
- Stanley = masculine, and
therefore dominant
- Blanche's influence
- Blanche's arrival threatens Stanley's
authority, and control over Stella
- Blanche's arrival threatens Stanley's
authority, and control over Stella
- Sexual relationship
- Assists in maintaining
Stanley's hold over Stella
- Used by the couple to fix their
problems
- They reunite through sex after
Stanley beats Stella
- They reunite through sex after
Stanley beats Stella
- Assists in maintaining
Stanley's hold over Stella
- Class
differences
- Stella adapting to lower-class
life, despite coming from a
higher class background.
- Stella attracted to Stanley's "animal" side - a
product of his class
- Stella attracted to Stanley's "animal" side - a
product of his class
- Stella adapting to lower-class
life, despite coming from a
higher class background.
- Gender roles
- Stanley and
Blanche
- Class differences
- Explored through the use
of language
- Blanche = high register,
educated, lyrical/poetic
- Stanley = lower register,
simple, matter of fact
- Blanche = high register,
educated, lyrical/poetic
- Causes conflict
- Blanche looks down on Stanley,
can be patronising
- Refers to Stanley as being like
an animal
- Refers to Stanley as being like
an animal
- Stanley looks down on Blanche, due to her
privelleged upbringing
- Blanche looks down on Stanley,
can be patronising
- Explored through the use
of language
- Sexual tension
- Implied sexual attraction
- Blanche's flirtatious demeanor encourages
Stanley's attraction to her
- However, she is clearly made
uncomfortable by his advances
- Perhaps resulting in
her rape
- However, she is clearly made
uncomfortable by his advances
- More of a power play for Stanley, as he uses
sex to assert his authority
- Blanche's flirtatious demeanor encourages
Stanley's attraction to her
- Implied sexual attraction
- Antagonistic towards
each other
- Their interactions with each other are
specifically designed to incite an
argument
- Blanche in particular antagonises Stanley
as she disapproves of his relationship
with Stella
- Each scene concludes
with a climatic tension
between the two.
- Each scene concludes
with a climatic tension
between the two.
- Blanche in particular antagonises Stanley
as she disapproves of his relationship
with Stella
- Their interactions with each other are
specifically designed to incite an
argument
- Class differences
- Blanche and
Stella
- Sisters
- Growing apart
- Language choices
reflect this
- Blanche acts very
familiar with Stella
- "Stella, oh, Stella, Stella!
Stella for Star!"
- "Stella, oh, Stella, Stella!
Stella for Star!"
- Stella more reserved,
withdrawn, changed her
characteristics as she has
adjusted to living in the 'New
South' with Stanley
- However, she does care for Blanche
- However, she does care for Blanche
- Blanche acts very
familiar with Stella
- Blanche disapproves of
Stella's relationship
- Stella has moved
down in status
- Stella has moved
down in status
- Language choices
reflect this
- Last living members
of their family
- Feeling of obligation
towards each other
- Feeling of obligation
towards each other
- Growing apart
- Conflict
- Blanche
antagonises
Stanley
- Blanche blames Stella for
loss of Belle Reve
- Despite the reference
to 'the epic fornications
of our forefathers'.
- Despite the reference
to 'the epic fornications
of our forefathers'.
- Blanche stuck in
the past
- Stella starting a new life with
Stanley, with a child on the way.
- Stella starting a new life with
Stanley, with a child on the way.
- Blanche
antagonises
Stanley
- Sisters
- Mitch and
Blanche
- Relationship of
convenience
- Mitch's desires to marry
before the death of his
mother
- Blanche needs a distraction from
her delusions
- Attraction is mostly on
Mitch's part
- Mitch's desires to marry
before the death of his
mother
- Class differences
- Mitch = more romantic than Stanley, but still
fairly uneducated/inexperienced
- Blanche carries the majority of their
conversations
- Mitch = more romantic than Stanley, but still
fairly uneducated/inexperienced
- Blanche's lies
- Cause conflict in the
relationship
- Ultimately results in
ending the relationship
- Ultimately results in
ending the relationship
- Mitch = insecure and
unexperienced in romance
- Blanche uses this to
manipulate him
- Blanche uses this to
manipulate him
- Cause conflict in the
relationship
- Mutual lonliness
- Relationship of
convenience
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