欲望号街车电影分析.ppt

Several elements in A Streetcar Named Desire 欲望号街车电影分析 characters Blanche, because of her “inappropriate manner”, she loses her job and leaves her hometown to live with her pregnant sister. She is highly vulnerable and neurotic. She looks Stanley as a rude man and always has conflicts with him. In the end, being raped by Stanley ,she lost her mind and is sent to an insane asylum . Stanley, a bad tempered blue collar ,who is Blanche’s brother-in-law, devoting himself to alcohol, gambling and desire. He hates Blanche because of her influence on his wife, so he wants to destroy her dignity and pride. He reveals Blanche’s past and ruins her engagement. Finally, he successfully gets rid of Blanche and sends her to an asylum . Stella, Blanche’s sister, Stanley’s wife, a simple- minded woman who is intrigued to her husband. Like Branche, she is from an upper-class family in the south, but she has a totally different attitude towards love from her sister. Mitch, Stanley’s friend, who initially wants to marry Blanche, knowing her past from Stanley, he leaves Branche and coldly insults her which partly leads to her madness. Mofits recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes. Light  Throughout the play, Blanche avoids appearing in direct, bright light, especially in front of her suitor, Mitch. It is clear that she avoids light in order to prevent him from seeing the reality of her fading beauty. Blanche covers the exposed light bulb in the Kowalski apartment with a Chinese paper lantern, and she refuses to go on dates with Mitch during the daytime or to well-lit locations. In Scene Six, Blanche tells Mitch that being in love with her husband, Allan Grey, was like having the world revealed in bright, vivid light. Since Allan’s suicide, Blanche says, the bright light has been missing. Bathing Throughout the play, Blanche bathes a lot. Her sexual experiences have made her a hysterical woma