欲望号街车.ppt

A Streetcar Named Desire
欲望号街车
A Streetcar Named Desire
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费雯丽 Vivien Leigh
布兰奇 Blanche
马龙白兰度 Marlon Brando
斯丹利科***基 Stanley
Mitch
Stella
Settings: The French Quarter and Downtown New Orleans
Background: The story happens in New Orleans after the World War Ⅱ
American Civil War
Happen in southern plantation culture being replaced with industrial process
Characters
Blanche, because of her “inappropriate manner”, she loses her hometown to live with her pregnant sister. She is highly vulnerable and neurotic. She looks Stanley as a rude man and always has conflicts with him. In the end, being raped by Stanley, she lost her mind and is sent to an insane asylum.
Stanley, a bad tempered blue collar, devoting himself to alcohol, gambling and desire. He hates Blanche because of her influence on his wife, so he wants to destroy her dignity and pride.
Mitch, Stanley’s friend, who initially wants to marry Blanche, knowing her past from Stanley, he leaves Branche and coldly insults her which partly leads to her madness.