Class Work for 13/11/2015 (Unfinished)

Task #1 - Read the Article, Make Notes On the Title, Author and the Date of Publication

The title of the article is 'Old South versus New America - A Streetcar Named Desire' The title immediately tells us which aspect of the play the author has chosen to comment on. That aspect being the representation or re-telling of the American Civil War story through the parallel characters of Stanley & Blanche.
The Author is Gabi Reigh, and English teacher at Farnborough College.
This article was published in September 2015.

Summarise the Main Point of the Article (About 200 Words)

In the article, Reigh discusses the conflict between a set of values and cultural attitudes in Streetcar, particularly the 'battle' between two characters, Stanley & Blanche. The main point in this article is that the struggle between the two is a re-telling of the American Civil War, with Blanche representing the archaic deep south and Stanley being symbolic of the new, modern north. Reigh says that this opposition is apparent right from the beginning, with the characters parallel costumes, as if uniforms of the two armies of soldiers. Blanche represents the old south, and is a 'staunch defender of the values of art, poetry and music.' Reigh goes on to say that Blanche's decline over the course of the play is reflective of the crisis of the Old South after its defeat in the civil war. Stanley is very much the image of the new, prosperous and progressive America. In his blue work clothes, likely an imitation of the blue civil war uniform of the North,

Task #2 - Pick out 5 key