Streetcar - Violence quotations

[He hurls the furs to the daybed. Then he jerks open a small drawer in the trunk and pulls up a fistful of costume jewellery] - Stage directions about Stanley

• his kinesics are violent and aggressive - a common pattern of impulsive behaviour for Stanley, prolepsis of his brutal defeat of Blanche

• the violent verbs convey his aggression and are in antithesis to the ‘furs’ and ‘jewellery’, Stanley is characterised as callous

• a symbol of Blanche and her fragility - her past is unsealed and can re open at any time, symbolic of her exposure

• the world Blanche comes from has been lost, in favour of a more down-to-earth world represented by Stanley

[playfully sprays him with her atomizer] - stage directions about Blanche

[he seizes the atomizer and slams it down on the dresser] - stage directions about Stanley

• Blanche has gentle kinesics

• Stanley is aggressively powerful in his kinesics

• a gender conflict could be seen between their highly contrasting kinesics - delicate and violent - perhaps Stanley feels emasculated

• prolepsis to scene 10 when Stanley sprays beer before he attacks Blanche where his kinesics and proxemics suggest his power and control, as well as beer and perfume being highly contrasting symbols of the masculine and the femenine

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