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ho is representing reality in the text?

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ho has power to construct reality in the text?

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hose reality do we rely on in the text?

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s this person’s version of reality reliable?

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hat are the isssues to do with Whose Reality? that are represented in the text?

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CAA – Samples of Context Pieces

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A Street Car Named Desire

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he significance of the title?

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Street Car Named Desire Elysian

Fields Cemetery

A Streetcar Named Desire

Whose Reality?

Different social classes…

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tella: "I'm afraid you won't think they are

lovely....They're a mixed lot...." Scene 1

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tella: "No. Stanley's the only one of his crowd that's

likely to get anywhere." Scene 3

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tella: "He didn't know what he was doing....He was

as good as a lamb when I came back and he's really

very, very ashamed of himself." Scene 4

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tella: "You take it for granted that I am in something

that I want to get out of." Scene 4

ATTITUDES TO WOMEN

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tanley: "The trouble with Dame Blanche was that she couldn't

put on her act any more in Laurel! They got wised up after two

or three dates with her and then they quit, and she goes on to

another, the same old line, same old act, same old hooey! But

the town was too small for this to go on forever! And as time

went by she became a town character. Regarded as not just

different but downright loco-nuts." Scene 7.

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lanche: There's something even sub-human-something not

quite to the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something - ape-

like about him.....Thousands and thousands of years have

passed him right by, and there he is - Stanley Kowalksi -

survivor of the stone age!...And you - you here - waiting for

him! Maybe he'll strike you or maybe grunt and kiss you!

That is, if kisses have been discovered yet!" Scene 4

Attitudes to women

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lanche:"You know as well as I do that a single girl, a girl alone in

the world, has got to keep a firm hold on her emotions or she'll

be lost!" Scene 6.

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lanche: "You're a natural gentleman, one of the very few that are

left in the world. I don't want you to think that I am severe and

old maid schoolteacherish or anything like that....I guess it's just

that I have - old-fashioned ideals!" Scene 6.

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lanche: "These are love-letters, yellowing with

antiquity, all from one boy.....Poems a dead boy

wrote. I hurt him the way that you would like to hurt

me, but you can't! I'm not young and vulnerable any

more. But my young husband was...." Scene 2

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lanche: "I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's

charm is fifty per cent illusion, but when a thing is

important I tell the truth, and this is the truth: I

haven't cheated my sister or you or anyone else as

long as I have lived." Scene 2

desire

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lanche: “Death – I used to sit here and she used to

sit over there and death was as close as you are…We

didn’t dare even admit we had ever heard of it!...The

opposite is desire.” Scene 9

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lanche: "Thank you for being so kind! I need

kindness now." Scene 3 and final scene

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itch: "You need somebody. And I need somebody,

too. Could it be - you and me, Blanche?" Scene 6

Attitudes to womenS

tanley: "In the state of Louisiana we have the Napoleonic code

according to which what belongs to the wife belongs to the husband

and vice versa." Scene 2

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itch: "I don't think I want to marry you any more....You're not clean

enough to bring in the house with my mother." Scene 9

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tanley: "Her future is mapped out for her." Scene 7

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uote 12: "Poker shouldn't be played in a house with women." Scene

3

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lanche: Yes, I had many intimacies with strangers....So

I came here. There was nowhere else I could go. I was

played out....and I met you. You said you needed

somebody. Well, I needed somebody, too. I thanked God

for you, because you seemed to be gentle - a cleft in the

rock of the world that I could hide in!" Scene 9

WHOSE REALITY? AND STREETCAR

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antasy and Reality – the clash

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llusion – as refuge and salvation

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lashing social realities

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ender and reality

SHARK NET

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ignificance of the title?

Shark NetW

hat is reality?

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ho is representing reality in the text?

W

ho has power to construct reality in the text?

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hose reality do we rely on in the text?

I

s this person’s version of reality reliable?

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hat are the isssues to do with Whose Reality? that are represented in the

text?