Fate,Death and Tragedy

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"_____ para los muertos, flores—flores…" (Scene 9) – Fate, Death, and Tragedy

The Mexican woman selling "_____" serves as an omen, symbolizing Blanche’s descent into _____ and social death. The _____ of desire and death is highlighted when Blanche desperately claims, "The opposite is _____," reinforcing how she uses _____ escapism to combat _____. The spectral presence of the _____ vendor foreshadows Blanche’s final _____, as her illusions collapse and she is ultimately _____.

Flores, flowers, madness, juxtaposition, desire, sexual, mortality, flower, demise, condemned

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“I used to sit here and she used to sit over there and _____ was as close as you _____.” (Scene 1) – Fate, Death, and Tragedy

Blanche’s _____ on death as an _____-present force establishes an _____ tone, foreshadowing the tragic _____ of her fate. The _____ of death as something tangible mirrors the fate of the _____, who is likewise surrounded by _____ at every turn. Both women are _____ in a world that offers them no _____, reinforcing their inevitable _____.

death, are, reflection, ever, ominous, trajectory, personification, Duchess, death, trapped, escape, demise

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“You left _____ here but spilt _____ and old empty _____ bottles—unless it’s the _____ lantern you want to take with you.” (Scene 11) – Fate, Death, and Tragedy

The image of Blanche’s _____ belongings symbolizes the _____ of her identity and her inevitable _____ from reality. The _____ lantern, a symbol of her _____-deception, remains as a _____ of her past. Like the _____, Blanche’s presence is ultimately _____ to an echo, emphasizing how both characters’ tragic _____ leave behind only _____ of their former selves.

nothing, talcum, perfume, paper, abandoned, fragility, erasure, paper, self, relic, Duchess, reduced, fates, traces

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"The first time I laid _____ on Stanley I thought to myself, that man is my ! That man will _____ me, unless—" (Scene 6) – Fate, Death, and Tragedy

Blanche’s _____ recognition of Stanley as her "______" foreshadows her inevitable _____ at his hands. The _____ of "executioner" suggests a _____ doom, emphasizing Blanche’s inability to _____ her tragic fate. The cliffhanger "unless—" reflects her _____ yet futile hope for _____, reinforcing the play’s inescapable _____ towards her downfall.

eyes, executioner, destroy, fatalistic, executioner, destruction, metaphor, preordained, escape, desperate, salvation, trajectory