EN 1006 Lecture Notes - Stella Kowalski, Bsc Young Boys, Androgyny
17 Apr 2013
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Gender and the american modernist condition: tennessee williams" a streetcar named desire. Mary carmichael"s life"s adventure: chloe liked olivia , form and content: radical departure from expected story (focus on a lesbian relationship) mirrors radical departure from stylistic convention. Ideal of androgyny: combination of male and female characteristics in a writer. Impossibility of connection: characters seek escape from ravages of time, characters seek refuge from harshness of world, characters who look for simple human contact (seen in blanche and mitch) Contrast between character"s psychological realism and staging departure from this realism. Williams interested in capturing vitality of life. Episodic nature of play (focused on episodes of characters lives, not acts) Music used as a recurring motif (varsouviana and gunshot) Theme of movement, transition, development (blanche"s journey to madness) Blanche has to take the streetcar to elisiyan fields and she continuously has to transfer. Location: french quarter in new orleans keeps looking for love.
