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AO2 STARTS HERE: One of the apartment walls in Streetcar sometimes becomes...
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Transparent
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What does Kazan do with the walls do in the original film production?
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Close in
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Which game reflects the power struggle between characters and genders?
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Poker
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Which musical motif represents Blanche's mental collapse and troubled past?
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Varsouviana
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Which insect does Williams compare Blanche to in the stage directions?
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Moth
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What hominid does Blanche compare Stanley to?
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Ape
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What common material is the main dramatic force in Streetcar according to Philip Kolin?
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Paper
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Which bathroom utlility -- when used cold -- represents Stanley's harsh view of reality?
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Shower
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By contrast, which is Blanche's utility of choice, reflecting Romantic idealism?
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Bath
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Which snake-eating-itself may show the structure of the plot? Williams may have been inspired by his writing teacher Robert Ramsay.
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Ouroboros
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Which word describes sound with no clear sound source?
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Non-Diegetic
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AO3 STARTS HERE: What is another term for a '19th century southern woman of intellectual and social distinction'?
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Southern Belle
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Which painter produced idealised images of the American family? These are indactive of the conformity and idealism of the time.
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Norman Rockwell
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What concept describes the ability of every American to aspire to riches and success?
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The American Dream
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What is the term for idealised American imagery?
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Americana
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What was the name of Williams's macho father?
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Cornelius
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What was the name of his submissive mother?
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Edwina
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What was the name of his sister?
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Rose
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What lifechanging operation did she have against her will?
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Lobotomy
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Which side of the American civil war does Blanche sympathise with?
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Confederacy
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Within a marriage, what was still legal in 1947?
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Rape
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AO5 STARTS HERE: Who said "Streetcar is a conflict between different species"?
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Eric Bentley
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Who said “My plays are about the negative impact that conventional society has upon the sensitive nonconformist individual.”?
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Tennessee Williams
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Who states that Stanley has 'trained his wife to catch his meat, in every way.'
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Ruby Cohn
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Who states that the hard consonants of Stanley are meant to contrast with the smooth open vowels of Blanche?
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Ruby Cohn
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Which actress described the play as '4 scenes of comedy, 2 of elegy, 5 of tragedy'
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Roxana Stuart
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The idea that the play is a battle between the drives of Eros (creativity) and Thanatos (destruction) is what kind of interpretation?
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Freudian
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Which fellow playwright described Stanley as a 'sexual terrorist'?
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Arthur Miller
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The idea that Stanley's behaviour is down to his 'wounded masculinity' is what kind of interpretation?
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Jungian
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Who said that the conflict between Blanche and Stanley is an allegory for the struggle between the masculine and feminine in the mid 20th century south?
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Robert Brustein
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The idea that Blanche is always a victim of patriarchal forces is what kind of interpretation?
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Feminist
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Which genius filmmaker said that "Tennessee Williams IS Blanche"?
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Elia Kazan
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Who said "Much of the verbal and theatrical imagery is borne out by games"? (In essence, that Streetcar is one elaborate game.)
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Leonard Quirino
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Who said "Stanley and Blanche are locked in a deadly sex battle"?
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Foster Kirsch
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