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Notes for 'A Streetcar Named Desire' by Tennessee Williams. - Includes appropriate context (Williams, Old South / New South, Southern Belle...) - Communication theories (Goffman, Grice..) - Essay paragraph examples - Notes on the exam - exam technique and timings for AQA paper - Character pro...

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  • June 24, 2022
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  • a streetcar named desire
  • blanche
  • stanley
  • mitch
  • stella
  • tennessee williams
  • southern belle
  • plantations and slavery
  • conflict
  • communication theories

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A Streetcar Named Desire
The exam
Spend 70 minutes on this section (10 mins planning)

You will be given a choice of two questions

You must write about two other scenes in the play

The focus will be on conflict of some sort

Aim to write about 3 sides of A4



AO1 (10 marks) - Terminology patterns - stylistic approach
AO2 (10 marks) - Writer's craft - narrative techniques - voice - why?

AO3 (15 marks) - Contextual factors - theories - production & reception - Williams’
background



Planning and Writing
QUESTION

Highlight the question focus and any key words

What is happening in the extract?



A Streetcar Named Desire 1

, Look for patterns - stage directions, kinesics, semantics, dialogue structure

Think about two other scenes that link to the extract

What context is there to explore? - Communication theories, Southern
Gothic, production and reception

INTRO

What has led to the conflict in the given extract?

To what extent is the play about (insert essay theme) ?

Highlight the other scenes you have chosen to write about - how do they
link?

Include any brief and relevant context

THINK WILLIAMS’ CRAFT

Paragraphs

Use a bigger quote at the start of the paragraph to prove the pattern, then
pick out individual words

Talk about given extract in one paragraph

Do another two paragraphs, one for each of the other scenes

Remember - how is Williams consciously crafting the play?

KEEP MENTIONING WILLIAMS & TALK ABOUT THE PLAY AS A WHOLE
(E.G., FORESHADOWING ETC)

No conclusion 😅
What to l👀k for:

patterns of epithets

motifs

foreshadowing

dramatic irony

condescending remark towards...

adjectives out of context (foregrounded)

theories (Goffman, Grice, Lakoff...)

plastic theatre


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