Streetcar quotes

• Use in essays on...Desire; Social Class; Past and Present; Gender; Sexuality.
• Use in essays on... Reality and Illusion; Gender; Fate and Tragedy; Desire.
• Use in essays on...Gender; Past and Present; Guilt.
• Use in essays on...Madness; Reality and Illusion; Fate and Tragedy; Death.
• Use in essays on...Reality and Illusion; Violence and Cruelty; Guilt.
• Use in essays on...Desire; Violence and Cruelty; Past and Present.
• Use in essays on... Desire; Death; Social Class; Sexuality.
• Use in essays on...Madness; Fate and Tragedy; Guilt; Past and Present.
• Use in essays on...Reality and Illusion; Guilt; Past and Present.
• Use in essays on...Social Class; Fate and Tragedy.
• Use in essays on...Desire; Reality and Illusion; Fate and Tragedy.
• The disclosure about her past shows just how wayward she has been, and foreshadows Stanley's revelations about what has happened in Laurel
• Use in essays on

  • Desire
  • Reality and Illusion
  • Fate and Tragedy
• Blanche speaks with an affectation of demureness


  "You may release me now... I said unhand me, sir."
• Techniques


  • Tone
  • Irony
• Use in essays on

  • Reality and Illusion
  • Past and Present
  • Social Class
  • Gender
• Techniques


  • Language
  • Tableaux Vivant
• Use in essays on

  • Desire
  • Gender
  • Guilt
• Techniques


  • Metaphor
  • Irony
  • Euphemism
• Techniques


  • Dramatic Irony
  • Symbolism
  • Plastic Theatre
  • Motif
• Use in essays on

  • Death
  • Fate and Tragedy
  • Guilt
• Techniques


  • Juxtaposition
  • Imperative
• Use in essays on

  • Reality and Illusion
  • Social Class
• Techniques


  • Staging
  • Motif
• Techniques


  • Staging
  • Metaphor
• Use in essays on

  • Violence and Cruelty
  • Fate and Tragedy
  • Gender
• Techniques


  • Metaphor
  • Exclamations
  • Motif
  • Sentence Structure
• Use in essays on

  • Death
  • Past and Present
  • Reality and Illusion
• Techniques


  • Exclamations
  • Questioning
  • Imperative
  • Repetition
• Use in essays on

  • Desire
  • Class
  • Death
  • Past and Present
• Techniques


  • Exclamations
  • Staging
  • Innuendo
• Use in essays on

  • Desire
  • Social Class
  • Violence and Cruelty
  • Gender
  • Sexuality
• Techniques


  • Metaphor
  • Motif
• Techniques


  • Metaphor
  • Semantic Field
  • Personification
• Use in essays on

  • Desire
  • Death
  • Reality and Illusion
  • Fate and Tragedy