Stanley+Scenes+1-3

Stanley carries out his male role successfully - he is manly, charismatic and strong. However, as the play proceeds, his masculine nature proves to be overbearing and crude, as we witness his deliberate cruelty towards Blanche and his violent statements of dominance over Stella and his friends, especially Mitch, all for which he takes no remorse for whatsoever.
 * STANLEY **** : CHARACTER QUOTATIONS (Scenes 1-3) **


 * __STAGE DIRECTIONS__

__ENTRANCES AND EXITS__

__TONE AND DICTION__

__HIS BEHAVIOUR (MOVEMENTS AND ACTIONS)__** ·  Cocky, animal behaviour: ** ‘animal joy is in his being’ (p.128) ** ·  reflects his role in their relationship with a primitive attribute – he brings the meat home to his family from his day out hunting: ‘he heaves the pack at her’ (p116). The throwing of the meat also hides a sexual innuendo. In hurling the meat at Stella, Stanley states the sexual authority  he holds over her , and  Stella’s delight in catching Stanley’s meat signifies her sexual infatuation with him. ·  ** Alpha male: ** He has rough sense of humour....loves to drink, food, games, his car, radio”(p128), ·  ‘a richly feathered male bird among hens’ (p128) - sexual dominance. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Aware of his sexuality/seductive: ** ‘..the centre of his life has been pleasure with women..’(p128); “my clothes stick’in to me..... (He start to remove his shirt)”(p129) - foreshadows a sexual relationship with Blanche. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> Sexist: Blanche is not allow to play poker because Stanley clearly tells her ‘you cannot’ (p145) <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: 'Times New Roman'; msolist: Ignore;"> “......why don’t you women go up and sit with Eunice.”(p145) <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> **Commanding: Refuses to stop playing even when the ladies come home ** ‘Till we are ready to quit’ (p145) “sit down”(p148) - dominant, authoritative. 'who's turn is it', 'turn it of!' (p146) Stanlet in charge of everything. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Violent actions ** ‘rips’ (p.139), ‘hurls’ (p.134); he used to getting his own way, ‘With a shouted oath, he tosses the instrument out of the window’(p151), “let go of me you son of a bitches” (p153) - physical dominance When things are not going his way he can get really violent as you can see from page 151 when he tosses the instrument out of the window.

<span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> He is ‘about 28 or 30 years old…roughly dress in blue denim clothes’ (p116)- shows that he belongs to the working class <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ‘He is a medium height…strongly, compactly built’(p128) - attractive <span style="font-family: Symbol; font-size: 8pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Wears shirts that are of bold ‘primary colours’- confidence and manhood **
 * __PHYSICAL APPEARANCE__**

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 * __GESTURES AND FACIAL EXPRESSIONS__**
 * __EMOTIONS__**


 * __MOTIFS AND SYMBOLS

WANTS/ DESIRES/ AMBITIONS__** <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Highly sexual: ** //the centre of his life has been pleasure with women, the giving and taking of’//; ‘//He sizes women up at a glance, with sexual classifications, crude images flashing into his mind//’ //(//p128) <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Materialistic: ** ‘Then where’s the money if the place was sold?’; ‘the Napoleonic code, according to which whatever belongs to my wife is also mine’ (p.133) - Married Stella for her wealth?

__ **INTERACTION BETWEEN BLANCHE AND STANLEY** __ <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Surprised by Stella’s choice- thinks she’s married beneath their social class but tries to be polite about it ** : ‘Polacks… heterogenous types?’ (p.124) <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Flirts: tells him to do up ‘some buttons in back’ (p.136) and ‘playfully sprays him’ with the atomizer (p.138); ** ‘when you walked in…I said to myself – “My sister has married a man!”’ <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ‘You’re simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side I should think’ (p.137) <span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: red; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** She says she is ‘terrified’ (p.155) by Stanley’s violent assault on Stella ** <span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: red; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Antagonistic relationship- Stanley clearly shows that he doesn’t want Blanche’s presence when they are playing poker **

<span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: red; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Very passionate relationship which is highly sexual: ‘When he’s away for the week I nearly go wild’ (p.125) ** <span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: red; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Stella is infatuated by Stanley, almost worships him ‘Can I come and watch’ (p116) ** <span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: red; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Stanley **** orders her around ‘How about my supper, huh?’ (p.131) ** <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Stanley **** is often insensitive and dismisses what Stella has to say: p.134. She gets angry with his crude behaviour: ‘ ** You have no ideas how stupid and horrid you’re being’ (p134); ‘It makes me mad when he does that in front of everyone’ (p145) <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Domestic violence- volatile relationship ** : “drunk – drunk – animal thing, you!”(p152) ** yet she goes back to him ‘her eyes go blind with tenderness’ (p.154) ** <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Enjoys male companionship: ** //laughter and shouts of parting come from the men// (p. 128) <span style="color: red; font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="color: red; font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> Is macho and ridicules Mitch for being a mama’s boy: ** ‘we’ll fix you a sugar tit’ (p.144) ** <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Sore loser: ** When I’m losing you want to eat!’ ** (p143) ** <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Short-tempered: ** when Steve is telling his joke – **Stanley** : [//impatient// //with the story//] ‘Deal!’; ** likes to be in charge: ** [//yelling//] ‘Sit down!’ ** (p.144) ** - Leader of the pack. <span style="font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;">· <span style="font: 7pt 'Times New Roman'; msobidifontfamily: Symbol; msobidifontweight: bold; msofareastfontfamily: Symbol; msolist: Ignore;"> ** Very short and curt with the way he speaks to the men. **
 * __ STELLA’S RELATIOSHIP WITH STANLEY __**
 * __ INTERACTIONS WITH MITCH AND THE OTHER MEN __**