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Characters. Symbols. Themes. Significant Quotes. Plot. 100. 100. 100. 100. 100. 200. 200. 200. 200. 200. 300. 300. 300. 300. 300. 400. 400. 400. 400. 400. 500. 500. 500. 500. 500. “ape-like”. Who is Stanley?. Liked being “pulled down off those pillars.”. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Characters Symbols Themes Significant Quotes Plot
“ape-like”
Who is Stanley?
Liked being “pulled down off those pillars.”
Who is Stella?
Her name means “white woods”.
Who is Blanche?
His name is Harold.
Who is Mitch?
This is the landlord and landlady of Stella and Stanley.
Who are Steve and Eunice?
Represents the corruption and the death of the American Dream.
What is Belle Reve?
Represents truth and reality as well as culture and knowledge.
What is light?
Represents stained innocence.
What is Blanche’s stained white skirt?
Represent the modern world versus the old, cultured world.
Who are Stanley and Blanche?
Represents the illusion of grandeur, culture, and the
American Dream.
What is the rhinestone tiara?
When Blanche takes a streetcar named desire, transfers to one
called Cemeteries, and arrives at Elysian Fields, it illustrates this
theme..
What is “giving in to our desires results in death and destruction”?
The name of Blanche and Stella’s plantation reveals this theme.
What is “the American dream is just a beautiful dream”?
Stanley’s primitive, cruel, and uncultured ways coupled with his
symbolic significance suggests this theme..
What is “the modern world is cruel, primitive,and uncultured” ?
Blanche wanting magic and not reality illustrates this theme.
What is “sometimes the belief in magic and love gives people
hope when reality only promises hardship”?
Blanche living in a fantasy and Stella not believing her sister
illustrates this theme.
What is “when reality becomes too difficult to deal with people
often slip into a world of illusion or fantasy”?
The significance of -“Stanley’s always smashed things. Why, on our wedding night—soon as we came in here—he snatched off one of my slippers and rushed about the place smashing the
light bulbs with it.”
What is, “this reveals Stanley as a man who destroys the culture
and knowledge of the past or the theme of the uncultured and cruel
modern world”?
The context of “I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes, yes,
magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell the truth. I tell what ought to be the truth!. And
if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! --Don’t turn the
light on!”
What is “Blanche says this to Mitch after her birthday party and when he demands to know
her real age and to see her in the light?
Significance of “I am not a Polack. People from Poland are
Poles, not Polacks. But what I am is a one hundred percent
American, born and raised in the greatest country on earth and
proud as hell of it, so don’t ever call me a Polack.”
What is “this reveals Stanley as the new America, comprised of upwardly mobile immigrants
who are proud to be American”?
Context of “I have always depended on the kindness of
strangers.”
What is, “Blanche says this to the doctor as she leaves for the
insane asylum”?
Context of, “And then the searchlight which had been
turned on the world was turned off again and never for one
moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this--
kitchen--candle.”
What is, “this is Blanche talking to Mitch about her husband Alan
committing suicide”?
Blanche kisses this person when she is waiting for Mitch to pick
her up for a date.
Who is the paperboy (the young man)?
Blanche thinks this person is coming to pick her up at the end
of the play.
Who is Shep Huntleigh?
Blanche says this to her husband just before he kills himself.
What is, “You disgust me”?
This is the reason Blanch lost Belle Reve..
What is her ancestor’s “epic fornications”?
This is Stanley’s birthday gift to Blanche.
What is a one way bus ticket back to Laurel?