ENGL 1005H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Tennessee Williams, Crass, Gentleness
21 Sep 2016
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Love and death - connection with the suicide of her husband allen. Lost love, disappointed, sexual, brutal, physical, romanticized, nostalgic, deluded , complex. Stanley can be very violent and dominant at one point, but then needy and compassionate another. (pg 68) blanche is horrified that stella goes back to stanley, mitch explains that they are both crazy about each other. Relationship to the old south - saw the oppression. Gay, so he felt the cruelty of the society. Nostalgic of the past as he saw the decay of the south, but understood the need for change. His mother was controlling, sister rose suffers from mental illness. Loss, decay, degeneration, repression, oppression (pg 43-44) Blanche picks up envelop from bell rave, explains the life style. Suggests in play that the way of society actually contributed to the downfall of the old south. History of slavery, continue oppression of black, women, gay, anyone that was away from the norm.
