A02 genre

• Modern Tragedy


  Blanche = protagonist + tragic heroine and her tragic flaw is inability to face reality/vunrability which the antagonist exploits. A04: greek writer Aristole tragedy is 'dramatic...form with incidents arousing pity and fear' besides the sorrows audience feel other tragic factors like death,haunted by ghosts,raising and dashing of hopes + inevitably of tragic end
• Modern tragedy A05


  Blanche's direct consequences vs Stella serving Adrian Poole 'Tragedy is only a way of assembling human misfortune, of subsuming it, and thus of justifying it by putting it into the form of a necessity'
• Comedy


  Whilst few audiences do see Stanley as a heroe, cheering dominance over Blanche; unconventional reading as pure comedy esp as WIlliams 'it was Blanche whom i loved' but many classical tragedies include comic elements Poole 'comic releif' and 'vital component of dramatic form' ie intrest,contrast, releasing tension eg scene 8 Blanche rallies performative skills tell joke unimpressed Stanley
• Realism + expressioanlsim


  stage directions= both realistic with specific props + believable costumes but also Expressionistic use of shadows,sound effects, music to expose B emotional state ... stage directions also ambiguous eg scene 1 blue piano 'expresses the spirit of life' simply the music could be heard from a nearby club or is it representative of influence of Stanely
• Domestic tragedy


   created around the Elizabethan period where the formerly epic hero became tragic within his own household and everyday life.
• Domestic tragedy


  trilogy of classical Greek plays the Oresteia centres on conflict within a family + willaim sets in Elysia fields associated classical Greek lit; the actions take place confined space, the proximity sig factor how tragedy unfolds, action + movement in restricted area scene 1 'of this room is a narrow door to the bathroom'
• Domestic tragedy


  Stanley's terrority; scene 2 confronts B movement between Kitchen/bedroom supports dialogue of conflict + bedroom controlled by Stanely this parallels to scene 10 Blanches tragedy is her mental breakdown in domestic setting stage direction he walks into the bedroom
• scene 1 Blanche speech... memroies that traumatised her brought into domestic setting of Kowalski apartment
• central closing scene of domestic tragedy ; stella betrayal

  • Blanche departure ' the poker players stand back as Blanche and thr doctor cross the kitcen to the front door'