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Theme page of A* level arguments, quotations, language analysis, themes and context regarding Desire in A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
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Topic:Desire and passion
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S2 S1
‘epic fornications’ – euphemism ‘Elysian Fields’ – allegorical journey to get to this spot,
connotates sexual desire and her pursuit of taboo desires have lead her through a
scandal death (hometown expulsion)
‘we thrashed it out.’ – tainted S2
with violence and lust ‘in a red satin robe’ – provocative, flirting connotates
‘I was flirting with your her desire and immorality
husband’ – hamartia is desire, ‘Blanche throws off her robe and slips into a flowered
coquettish print dress.’ – when S is around clothes change, shows
‘You’re standing in the light, their sexual tension
Blanche!’, ‘Oh, am i!’ – tries to ‘May I have a drag on your cig?’ – phallic imagery,
seduce men sexual tension, desire and danger
S4 ‘Re-e-d ho-o-ot!’ – vender is symbolic of sexual tension
‘thrilled by it’ – Stanley’s between stanley and blanche
violence heightens Stella’s desire S3
‘it (the streetcar) brough me ‘rumba music comes over the radio’ – dance of love
here’ – foreshadows desire being and passion
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