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a streetcar named desire

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Decks in this class (19)

Scene 1
Elysian fields,
Raffish charm,
The riverhouses with their faint ...
19  cards
Scene 2
Next door to glass,
I have an accquaintance that works,
The kowalskis and the dubois have...
7  cards
Scene 3
The poker night,
There is a picture of van goghs o...,
Dramatic purpose of the poker party
13  cards
Scene 4
The unseen eavesdropper,
A book of coloured comics,
It brought me here
3  cards
Scene 5
Blanche s self destructive nature,
I ve run for protection stella fr...
2  cards
Scene 6
Blanche s risks and contradiction...,
The absence of the blue piano,
Sometimes there s god so quickly
4  cards
Scene 7
Dramatic irony in scene 7,
Mimicking x2,
Paper moon
4  cards
Scene 8
I am one hundred percent american...,
Stanley hurls his plate to the floor,
Stella s labour as a dramatic device
4  cards
Scene 9
You ve stopped that polka tune i ...,
Yes a big spider that s where i b...,
He tears the paper lantern off th...
7  cards
Scene 10
Soiled and crumpled evening gown ...,
Blanche s breaking of the mirror,
Grotesque and menacing shapes
6  cards
Scene 11
Dramatic function of scene 11,
I have always depended on the kin...,
The opposite of hubris
7  cards
Blanche
Blanche is the play s,
Blanche s appearance,
Blanche s inconsistency
7  cards
Stanley
Some critics think that stanley l...,
Initial description of stanley,
The final view of stanley
4  cards
Stella
Stella s initial appearance,
Stella s responses to being patro...,
Stella s love for stanley is the ...
5  cards
Mitch/ minor characters
Lack of physical description of m...,
Similarities between blanche and ...,
Sc3 poker shouldn t be
6  cards
Context
The change of stanley from an iri...,
Homosexuality in williams plays,
Southern gothic
32  cards
Genre and structure
The unities,
To what extent does,
Streetcar as a morality play vs a...
3  cards
General notes and ideas
A play where almost all character...,
Opposites attract,
Blanche s need for male validation
6  cards
Williams' intentions
Key concern 1 genre,
Key concern 2
2  cards

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