A Streetcar Named Desire - Context by https://padlet.com/arimohamed122/wq1vsjdr8t0bav5e Go get that A* :) en-us 2020-09-30 12:50:25 UTC 2020-09-30 17:39:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f61c.png The Old South arimohamed122 https://padlet.com/arimohamed122/wq1vsjdr8t0bav5e/wish/791940393 - the American Civil War was between the Northern and Southern states, and one of the major reasons for it starting was the issue of Slavery in the South. Northern states wanted it to be abolished however the Southern states who relied on it for running their plantations, did not. The North eventually won and Slavery was abolished in 1865]]> 2020-09-30 16:10:19 UTC https://padlet.com/arimohamed122/wq1vsjdr8t0bav5e/wish/791940393 arimohamed122 https://padlet.com/arimohamed122/wq1vsjdr8t0bav5e/wish/792009816 Mississippi, Blanche is originally from, is a classic example of the "Deep South" (where slavery took place). ]]> 2020-09-30 16:25:30 UTC https://padlet.com/arimohamed122/wq1vsjdr8t0bav5e/wish/792009816 arimohamed122 https://padlet.com/arimohamed122/wq1vsjdr8t0bav5e/wish/792043199 Published in 1946, A Streetcar Named Desire reflects the cultural tensions that pervaded the nation after the horrors of World War II, when an idealistic and ambitious American nation attempted to prove its superiority and its power to the global community by attempting to - and succeeding in - squashing the threat of Nazi Germany.]]> 2020-09-30 16:33:14 UTC https://padlet.com/arimohamed122/wq1vsjdr8t0bav5e/wish/792043199 The Great Depression arimohamed122 https://padlet.com/arimohamed122/wq1vsjdr8t0bav5e/wish/792147841 When A Streetcar Named Desire came out, the country has just emerged from the war after battling through the Great Depression of the 1930's. 
during TGD, the entire nation suffered from extremely high unemployment and interest rates, and millions of Americans found themselves buried in deep debt.]]> 2020-09-30 16:55:55 UTC https://padlet.com/arimohamed122/wq1vsjdr8t0bav5e/wish/792147841 Cultural and Political Context arimohamed122 https://padlet.com/arimohamed122/wq1vsjdr8t0bav5e/wish/792182625 Tennessee Williams saw the South as a broken and damaged place in which the decay was somehow charming. He said: "i wrote out of the love for the South... once a way of life that i am just able to remember - not a society based on money... i write about the South ]]> 2020-09-30 17:03:26 UTC https://padlet.com/arimohamed122/wq1vsjdr8t0bav5e/wish/792182625