A Streetcar Named Desire Critical Quotes
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Tennessee Williams
On the main theme of his plays
On the main theme of his plays
"The destructive power of society on the sensitive non-conformist individual."
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Samuel Tapp
On the Southern Belle tragedy of Blanche
On the Southern Belle tragedy of Blanche
Blanche Dubois is a victim of the mythology of the Southern Belle
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Robert Brustein
On gender
On gender
"The conflict between Blanche and Stanley allegorises the struggle between effeminate culture and masculine libido"
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Emma Kirby
On madness in ASND
On madness in ASND
“sanity is dependent on fitting in and adhering to the social roles expected of us"
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Mary Ann Corrigon
On madness and the past.
On madness and the past.
"We cannot understand \[Blanche's\] behaviour until we see how the past affects the future"
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Harold Clurman
On sexism, masculinity, and madness
On sexism, masculinity, and madness
"Blanche is a delicate and sensitive woman pushed into insanity by a brutish environment presided over by chief ape-man Stanley Kowalski"
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The New Yorker
on corruption and decay/ culture vs individual clash
on corruption and decay/ culture vs individual clash
"A play about the disintegration of a woman...or of a society"
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Elia Kazan
On gender and Stella
On gender and Stella
"Stella is a refined girl who has found a kind of salvation or realization but at a terrific price"
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Nancy Tischler
On the old vs the new, and culture.
On the old vs the new, and culture.
"...sees Streetcar not as a drama of natural selection but rather as "a reversal of Darwin's vision—back to the apes"
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Joan Templeton
On desire
On desire
"...argues that Blanche, through her own "epic fornications," is just as responsible for her fall as the Old South is for its own demise"
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Bert Cardullo
On desire and the destructive power of it.
On desire and the destructive power of it.
"They are less victim and villain... than mutual victims of desire."
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Drake (not that one silly goose)
On Blanche’s tragedy.
On Blanche’s tragedy.
"presenting the pessimistic view of modern man destroying the tender aspects of love (...) and in Blanche's refusal to submit, she is being portrayed as the last representative of a sensitive, gentle love whose defeat is to be lamented"
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Nicola Onyett
On social ostracism
On social ostracism
Blanche has become a social outcast because she refuses to conform to conventional moral values . In cruelly unveiling the truth about her scandalous past, Stanley strips her of her psychological, sexual and cultural identity.
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Melman
On desire, sex and death
On desire, sex and death
Blanche "grasps at desire as a means of escaping death, her passion can only lead her closer to the grave for it fuels an attempt not to reach out to the future, but to deny it"
(Note: Not only B’s suppressed desire causes her downfall, but her dead husband Allan Grey was forced to suppress his homosexuality for her, resulting in his suicide)
(Note: Not only B’s suppressed desire causes her downfall, but her dead husband Allan Grey was forced to suppress his homosexuality for her, resulting in his suicide)