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Compare and contrast Higgins' speech in Pygmalion (1912) with Blanche's speech in A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). How does the context of each speech and the gender of the speakers affect our understanding of each speech?
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Compare and contrast Higgins' speech in Pygmalion (1912) with Blanche's speech in A Streetcar Named Desire (1947). How does the context of each speech and the gender of the speakers affect our understanding of each speech? Towards the end of scene four, Blanche exposes to Stella and the audience her judgments of Stanley, as she argues her sister that it is impossible to live with such a man of which all he has to offer is "animal force". Blanche simply cannot understand how a woman raised at Belle Reve could choose to live her life with such an ungentlemanly, brutish man. Stella replies that what she and Stanley do "in the dark ... make[s] everything else seem-unimportant." Blanche argues her sister that sheer desire is no basis for a marriage and that Stella ought to find it impossible to settle down with a man whose primary attraction is sexual....
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