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Lauren Green
How does Williams show the conflict between men and women in this extract and in other parts of the
play?
In the extract from scene eleven Williams presents conflict between men and women in many ways and
throughout the play he reflects on their differences and the conflict between each other
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The scene prior to this Blanche is raped by Stanley and life is shown to carry on for the men yet Blanche is
distressed by the event
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Blanches reaction to Stella being slapped seemed to be the larger problem
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In
1940’s America the women were often reliant on the men as they controlled the families money and assets this
could show that the men have dominance over the women which may be why the men control the women’s
social situations: the ability to hold a grudge
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He designed the play to show how the social structure of the South offered little
protection for women
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Also the stage directions and the locations are used to demonstrate the conflict
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Williams uses stereotypes to enforce the ideals of a woman and the separation
between men and women “Stella goes into the bedroom and starts folding a dress”
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We also see the divide in rooms during the other poker game
in scene three, This scene balances with the poker game in Scene 3
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The
physical attention to inside versus outside also symbolically demonstrates the complicated relationship between
what goes on in the mind versus what occurs in real life
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In scene eleven Williams uses Stanley to portray the stereotypical beliefs of a man towards a woman
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You want the lantern?” This shows that Blanche had left a series of problems and
the use of the concrete noun “Perfume bottles” reflect on the stereotype, there is a premodifying adjective “old”
which is one of Blanches fears, she is frightened of aging as she believes that she would lose her sex appeal
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This is followed by He crosses to dressing table and
seizes the paper lantern, tearing it off the light bulb, and extends it towards her
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” at the end of the scene which could symbolise the violation of Blanche and exposure of the truth
Stanley has done throughout the play
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Williams may have used this
to also show that times should change as women are suffering through the domination of men
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Both Blanche and Stella define themselves in terms of the men in their lives, and they see
relationships with men as the only avenue for happiness and fulfillment
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She performs a
delicate, innocent version of femininity because she believes that this makes her most attractive to men
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Stella says that they have told
Blanche that they have made arrangements for her to spend time in country, but Blanche thinks she is going off
to travel with Shep
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Blanche doesn't understand where she is going, so she tells herself the story she wants to believe
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Stella says in the extract “I
couldn't believe her story and go on living with Stanley
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This is typical of
the 1940’s as the men were typically the ones who ran the family and earnt the families money and the women
had the more nurturing role
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Williams may have included these themes due
to the societal roles that the people were oppressed to follow
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