malfi/streetcar critics

(ava's set)

SC: Elia Kazan on Blanche

''Blanche is dangerous, she is destructive, this makes Stanley right''

SC: Bubb

''conflicting male identities''

SC: Tapp on Blanche

''Blanche is a victim of the mythology of the Southern Belle''

DOM: John Knox (historical)

''The nature of the female rule was unnatural''

DOM: Janowski on the Duchess

''The Duchess is represented as being radically different from the traditional picture of the renaissance wife''

DOM: Murray on the Duchess

''the radical spirit of the Duchess cannot be killed''

MSC: Haxell

''Ferdinand and Blanche are outside society's norms''

DOM: Bradbrook on Bosola

"Bosola, the chief instrument in the Duchess' betrayal and subjection, also bears the strongest witness to her virtues''

DOM: Roider on Antonio

''Antonio's success is a classic example of the possibility for social advancement in Jacobean England''

DOM: Roider on the Duchess

"Some have seen it as a cautionary tale that shows what can happen when women marry without being granted the "proper" consent, while others argue that it is a feminist story of a strong woman ahead of her time''

DOM: Travis Bogard on the 'ultimate tragedy'

"The ultimate tragedy of Webster's world is not the death of any individual but the presence of evil and decay which drags all mankind to death."

DOM: William Watson 19th century

"Virtue in this disordered world is merely wasted''

DOM: David Cecil on the world

''all its apparent beauties are a snare and a delusion."

SC: Skiba.M on Blanche's behaviour

''…is in a certain way symptomatic of society itself, even of humanity as a whole.''

SC: Williams. P on Stanley

''a territorial animal desperately defending its lair''

SC: Williams on society

''the destructive power of society on the sensitive non-conformist individual.''