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Document containing key quotes, context, langauge analysis and key themes for DEATH in 'A Streetcar Named Desire'
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Topic:Death
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Key Quotes Literary/Dramatic Devices Critical Quotations (p.) Context + Contextual Quotations
S1 S1 ‘Tragedy is the art form created
‘The summer dad died and you ‘Elysian fields’ - ironic for to confront the most difficult
left us …’ – first hint of death blanche, paradise of fallen Greek experiences we face: death, loss,
being a cause of blanche’s heros – darker fate for blanche. injustice, thwarted passion,
ruination Also reps her allegorical journey despair.’ – Wallace, McEvoy
'the long parade to the of tragedy, lead by desire 2009
graveyard!’ – preoccupation ‘funerals are pretty compared
with death to deaths. Funerals are quiet, ‘the structure of the best tragedy
S3 but deaths – not always.’ – should be not simple but complex
‘And if God choose, I shall love tendency to romanticise the and one that represents incidents
thee better – after death!’ morbid arousing fear and pity’ - Aristotle
S6 S7
‘He’d stuck the revolver into ‘But when she was young, very
his mouth, and fired – so the young, she had an experience
back of his head had been – that – killed her illusions!’ –
blown away!’ – killed himself, stella is wary of the donward
source of her ruination spiral death has inflicted of
S9 Blanche, euphemism shows lack
‘I – lived in a house where of help B receives
dying old woman remembered S8
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