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A Streetcar Named Desire - The importance of Tennessee Williams' use of language
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The use of language plays a highly important role in A Streetcar Named Desire in representing several aspects of themes or the characters themselves e.g. Stanley. One of these themes represented is the distinct difference in the language between Stanley and Blanche which quite obviously shows Blanches status in society (or her desired/previous place in society) being far superior to that of Stanley's lower, working class dialect and accent. Stanley as a character is fairly two dimensional in his emotions in the sense that the only emotions he truly shows are those of anger and lust. In my opinion his use of language serves two contrasting purposes. Firstly Stanley's language structure is made up of short words containing few syllables and his sentences are structured using many short pauses and are not particularly long to give them a brutal quality. Stanley, like all characters in the play use accent and...
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