ENGL 1005H Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Belle Reve, Blanche Dubois, Vise

• School: Trent University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 1005H
• Professor: Steffler Margaret

Document Summary

Symbol- in the simplest sense, anything that stands for or represents something else beyond it- usually an idea conventionally associated with it. Point us beyond the thing being described, whereas images and metaphors point us, in different ways, to the thing itself. Mitch shows blanch the inscription on his cigarette case. Ill(cid:374)ess a(cid:374)d e(cid:373)otio(cid:374) a(cid:374)d death (cid:862)si(cid:272)k people ha(cid:448)e su(cid:272)h deep atta(cid:272)h(cid:373)e(cid:374)ts(cid:863) (cid:862)sorro(cid:449) (cid:373)akes for si(cid:374)(cid:272)erit(cid:455)(cid:863) Idealized love as well as violent possessive love. Dominance can quickly come submission and vise versa. Love triangle- blanche, stanley, stella lost love, disappointed, romanticized, physical, sexual, brutal, desperate, deluded, nostalgic love- shows the complexities of love. Stanley can be controlling and abusive one moment, then caring and submissive the next. Very brutish and needy when he is calling for stella. After stanley hits stella, she goes back to him and blanche is mortified. Mitch describes the retur(cid:374) o(cid:374) pg (cid:1010)(cid:1012). (cid:862) tella a(cid:374)d ta(cid:374) are (cid:272)raz(cid:455) for ea(cid:272)h other(cid:863)