Cruelty

CRUELTY ||   ONE || || TWO || || THREE || || FOUR || || FIVE || || SIX || || SEVEN || || EIGHT || || NINE || || TEN || This scene is when Stanley rapes Blanche. Williams doesn’t show this as he only shows how //“he picks up her inert figure and carries her to the bed”//. In this play, this is the most dramatic scene and can be considered the climax. Stanley tells Blanche that //“we’ve had this date from the beginning”// which foreshadows the rape itself. The relationship between Stanley and Blanche almost seems like a battle through the play, and the rape almost seems like Stanley’s final win. It also signifies the death of the old Southern ways which Blanche represents with her romantic notions and the rise of the new ways which are represented by Stanley. The act is extremely cruel because Stanley is at his highest point where he’s about to have a son and Blanche is the most traumatized where the three characters of the drunkard, prostitute and the thief represent her personality. -“//But I have been foolish – casting my pearls before swine!”//- Blanche calls Stanley swine and puts on a façade of being better and superior, which causes Stanley to slowly tear her down and rebuke all her points. || ELEVEN || ||
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