https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox en-us 2017-05-25 18:22:50 UTC 2017-05-26 20:01:13 UTC hello@padlet.com shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174042683 Play set in New Orleans in 1947- right after World War ]]> 2017-05-26 19:11:17 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174042683 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174042801 New Orleans is famous for jazz music, multiculturalism and one of the first places homosexuality was accepted.]]> 2017-05-26 19:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174042801 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174043023 The South- State in Louisiana USA (New Orleans) 
ASND- represents decline of aristocratic families mainly associated with the South.
Agricultural (South) overthrown by industrialisation. 

]]> 2017-05-26 19:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174043023 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174043574 Blanche is seen as the old world and romanticised culture of the South.
Stanley as the new world and greed of the North. ]]> 2017-05-26 19:20:53 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174043574 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174043785 Williams' sister Rose who was sent to a asylum when he was 16 and Blanche was based off her. 
Desire was a real streetcar route in New Orleans at the time Williams' lived there.
The character of Allen- Blanche's husband hints at Williams' homosexuality.]]> 2017-05-26 19:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174043785 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174045350 Belle Reve- Beautiful dream in French, Louisiana was originally French territory. ]]> 2017-05-26 19:44:25 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174045350 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174045476 Elysian Fields- in Greek mythology it was the equivalent to paradise. Ironic as name of rundown street but EF also dwelling place of the dead. ]]> 2017-05-26 19:45:52 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174045476 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174045602 Earlier version of play named 'The Moth'. 
Reference to moths in stage directions, 'suggests a moth'. ]]> 2017-05-26 19:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174045602 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174045767 In 1865 wealth based on slavery abolished due to North winning the Civil War.
'I fought and bled'- Blanche rhetoric defeat of the South? ]]> 2017-05-26 19:50:11 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174045767 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174045983 Scarlet women of the Bible (Revelation 7) suggestion of Blanche?
"Voulez-vous coucher avec moi ce soir?"- standard invitation of French prostitute to a passing man. Reference to La Dame aux camelias.]]> 2017-05-26 19:52:46 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174045983 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174046160 "My Rosenkavalier"- the knight of the rose, Rosenkavlier hero in Strauss's comic romantic opera (1911). Blanche calls Mitch this. ]]> 2017-05-26 19:54:54 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174046160 shannon_smith_whelan https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174046596 Degenerate- Stella describes Allen as this meaning homosexual. Homosexuality was considered a perversion and was illegal. ]]> 2017-05-26 19:59:49 UTC https://padlet.com/shannon_smith_whelan/39zbv9pvjiox/wish/174046596