(Lit1A) Setting in Scene 1 by https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting en-us 2016-09-21 10:33:29 UTC 2025-10-22 05:39:54 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Pictureland.png dha3 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125341495 2016-09-21 10:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125341495 "A corresponding air is evoked by the music of Negro entertainers at a bar-room around the corner" https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347249 Shows that the black American's still done have full respect from other people as they are still referred to as Negro's]]> 2016-09-21 11:09:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347249 'weathered grey' indicates a loss of character. https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347438 'gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay' - juxtaposition

]]> 2016-09-21 11:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347438 Overlapping voices such as the vendor shouting "Red Hots!" Shows the crowded atmosphere and business of the town https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347571 This could also suggest a lack of privacy within the town and hints at poverty with how close everything is together]]> 2016-09-21 11:11:43 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347571 "warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses" - personification, represents poverty at the time https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347654 2016-09-21 11:12:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347654 Set in New Orleans https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347715 Elysian Fields]]> 2016-09-21 11:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347715 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347776 "Above the music of the "Blue Piano"  the voices of the people on the street can be heard overlapping"
None of what these people are saying can be heard properly their voices fade into the background like their can is often ignored or goes unnoticed by those better off.  Blanch shows this when she says "Only Poe! Only Mr Edgar Allen Poe!- could do it justice". She  Would not have believed it if she had not seen it and would have thought it a horror story.
This all inforces the idea of poverty the setting gives.]]> 2016-09-21 11:12:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347776 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347829 The whole introduction to the setting is a kind of foreshadowing of future, most likely negative events. "white frames, weathered grey", "warm breath of the brown river"]]> 2016-09-21 11:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347829 "weathered" "atmosphere of decay https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347852 implies the place is old and rotting and deteriorating but it is accepted by its inhabitants 
 ]]> 2016-09-21 11:12:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347852 "it has a raffish charm" - It's a very pleasant place to be, despite first appearances https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347870 2016-09-21 11:13:03 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125347870 "You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river warehouses..." https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348021 Personifies the river. Shows that they are in an urban area. The river has not been cared for. Lack of description of life (no animals mentioned). Reinforces the idea of Elysian Fields as a beaten down and 'weathered' area. ]]> 2016-09-21 11:13:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348021 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348076 ''rickety outside stairs'']]> 2016-09-21 11:14:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348076 'This "Blue Piano" expresses the spirit of the life which goes on here' - Plastic Theatre https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348316 2016-09-21 11:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348316 "attenuates the atmosphere of decay" - The place is old, it's deteriorating, but that is masked by the charming atmosphere created by the smells, the music and the people. https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348335 2016-09-21 11:15:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348335 'bananas and coffee' are grown at plantations - links to context of Southern USA https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348345 2016-09-21 11:15:45 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348345 Elysian Fields https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348422 means heaven ]]> 2016-09-21 11:16:13 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348422 ''expresses the spirit and life which go on here'' https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348473 2016-09-21 11:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348473 'a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races' This quote shows integration not segregation, which was unusual at the time the play was set.  https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348550 2016-09-21 11:16:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348550 "What I meant was I'd like to be alone" https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348555
Audience's first impression of Blanche, rude and does not respect people]]> 2016-09-21 11:17:02 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348555 "...expresses the spirit of life" https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348616 this shows that whilst the inhabitants may be poor, they have strong character]]> 2016-09-21 11:17:21 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348616 Use of complex and descriptive language - unusual for stage directions. https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348626 2016-09-21 11:17:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348626 ''new Orleans is a cosmopolitan city where there is a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races in the old part of town'' https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348739
Races get along well whereas in the plantations one race was treated unfairly.]]> 2016-09-21 11:18:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348739 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348788 Tennessee Williams sets the scene in a novel style rather that a brief description. This is interesting because it shows that he wanted to give off a certain style even though it is only the actors that will read this. He then adding lots of different conversations overlapping in the first part of the scene to clarify this to the audience if the actors were unable to showing that the setting was extremely important to the play   ]]> 2016-09-21 11:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348788 "Always just around the corner from...." https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348843 suggests a sense of the people living very close together, possibly being trapped
this also links in with the "overlapping voices"

]]> 2016-09-21 11:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348843 "Two women, one white and one coloured, are taking air on the steps of the building" https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348845
This shows as well as there being little tension between races in this part of town that there was a lack of privacy as they both have to go out together at the same place on "the" building.]]> 2016-09-21 11:18:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348845 Sexual innuendo, Stanley: Catch! Stella: What? Stanley: Meat! https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348851 shows the dynamic of the relationship between Stella and Stanley. This ]]> 2016-09-21 11:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348851 "Raffish Charm" https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348937 implies the place has a lot of character and is pleasant, though an outsider may think otherwise.]]> 2016-09-21 11:19:30 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348937 'Negro' was used as a neutral word for African Americans at the time, however was often put aside curse words to insinuate they had an inferior place in society. https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348960 2016-09-21 11:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348960 "warm breath" is stifling and sinister, much as the area is to Blanche https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348969 2016-09-21 11:19:46 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348969 "Two rooms can be seen, not too clearly defined. The one first entered is primarily a kitchen but contains a folding bed to be used by BLANCHE. The room beyond this is a bedroom. Off this room is a narrow door to a bathroom." https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348996 Description of Stella and Stanley's home - it is very small. ]]> 2016-09-21 11:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125348996 "Where could it be, I wonder?" https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349028 Blanche lies to her sister about drinking, shows there is not trust between the Stella and her. Blanche acts fine when she is stressed over losing Belle Reve. She still creates this illusion that everything is fine.]]> 2016-09-21 11:20:10 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349028 "delicate beauty" and "raffish charm" https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349168 contrasts the character of blanche with the setting
 ]]> 2016-09-21 11:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349168 "The sky is ... a peculiarly tender blue" https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349208 Could be a metaphor for and foreshadowing of a sadness that hangs over the town or will affect the characters in the play

]]> 2016-09-21 11:21:24 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349208 'Negro Woman' is able to advise other members of society, and engage in conversations with those of different ethnicity - shows difference from the rest of America at the time https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349283 2016-09-21 11:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349283 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349353 2016-09-21 11:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349353 "gracefully attenuates the atmosphere of decay" https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349359 makes decay seem like a good thing, suggesting that nobody cares or notices the 'decay'

]]> 2016-09-21 11:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349359 Tennessee Williams had intentions to try and portray how he imagined the setting to the director. The audience were never going to know about the descriptive stage directions yet Williams felt it necessary to write them that way. https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349386 2016-09-21 11:22:37 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349386 Belle Reve https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349396
French for beautiful dream]]> 2016-09-21 11:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349396 "Elysian Fields https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349420 2016-09-21 11:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349420 "Elysian Fields" https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349424 Contrast between a mythological paradise and Blanche's idea of Hell.]]> 2016-09-21 11:22:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349424 "They told me to take a streetcar named Desire and then transfer to one called Cemeteries" https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349463 Blanche's descent to a 'hell'. Desire could be seen as one of the deadly sins and so this leads to 'hell']]> 2016-09-21 11:23:11 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349463 "Half opened closet" https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349568 Gives the room a worn in feel. The 'closet' Blanche gets the alcohol from is used often.]]> 2016-09-21 11:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349568 The white woman is EUNICE, who occupies the upstairs flat; the COLOURED WOMAN a neighbour https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349569 Implies the black woman is below the white woman in the building showing the social divide between races even though this is a integrated society

]]> 2016-09-21 11:23:53 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349569 "easy intermingling of races" https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349572 shows that this place is quite socially modern and forward thinking for the time

]]> 2016-09-21 11:23:54 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349572 "the yellow-checked linoleum of the table". https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349577 2016-09-21 11:23:56 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349577 Stella: "I can hardly stand it when he is away for a night" Blanche: "Why, Stella?" https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349651 Blanche has never been in love and does not understand Stella's desire for Stanley]]> 2016-09-21 11:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349651 'you are practically always just around the corner, or a few doors down the street, from a tinny piano being played' - lively and busy  https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349837 2016-09-21 11:25:14 UTC https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125349837 https://padlet.com/dha3/Lit1A_Scene1Setting/wish/125351427

the overlapping voices show the hustle and bustle of the city

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