Streetcar Named Desire: Key Narrative Moments + 1st impressions:

Top 10 Most Memorable Moments:

• Blanche's arrival.
• Poker night.
• Stanley hitting Stella.
• Blanche's date with Mitch.
• Stanley throwing the package of meat at Stella at the beginning.
• Stanley finding out the truth about Blanche.
• Mitch trying to rape Blanche.
• Stanley raping Blanche. 
• Blanche loosing her grip on reality and getting sent to an asylum

1st Impressions: 

-Stanley is an instantly striking character, his violence builds up throughout the play; beginning foreshadows his future violence.

-Our attitudes to the characters change, this character development is evident when Mitch tries to rape Blanche - he becomes more like Stanley as opposed to the gentle opposite he was throughout.

-Stanley equates Blanche's past to being a prostitute as she survived from the profits of her relationships.

-Every part is tense.

-Blanche looses Belle Reve, comes from family of wealth and property. 

-When Stanley finds this out, the audience gets some backstory.

-Blanche's ex-husband was gay, she tells him he's 'disgusting' and he kills himself, she blames herself.

Essay Lesson: Writing Introductions

• Should consist of no more than 2 complex sentences.
• Focus on the question!
• Includes the 'ways', what you will focus on in the essay.
• Contextualise the main poem. 

Keep it simple, keep it sweet, keep it succinct. The 3 s's. Just like chocolate, simple, sweet and to the point. 

Christina Rossetti: Poem #14: Soeur Louise de la Misericorde

Not much to say for this poem:

- Strongly influenced by William Blake, as Rossetti was.
- Title translates as Louise, sister of mercy. Who was the mistress of Louis XIV in the 17th century who entered a convent.
- Themes of reminisce (Like in 'Echo' + 'Shut Out').
- 1st person narrative stance.
- Repetition in every stanza of 'Oh vanity of vanities, desire!'.
- Hyperbolic, strange, conflicted, bitter voice who is struggling with religion?
- Selfish love, vanity, thinking of yourself.
- Impurities: 'dross'
- 'perished pleasure' alliteration, highlighting how desire fades and you are essentially left with nothing.
- Interrogative in 3rd line, again showing how obsession and desire fade.
- 1st stanza has a certain pace, caesuras.