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Monday, March 14
Tennessee Williams writes within the genre of “Southern Gothic.” · tragic-comic examination of conflicts between o the gentility of old Southern values and o the brute force of new Northern values
 * [|Williams Bio slide show]
 * Streetcar literature notes

Williams called his plays “Memory Plays” – 3 parts 1. a character experiences something profound 2. that experience causes an “arrest of time,” a situation in which time loops on itself. 3. the character must relive that profound experience (caught in a Mobius loop of time) until she or he makes sense of it. Overarching theme for his plays, he said, is the negative impact that conventional society has upon the “sensitive nonconformist individual.”

Williams called his work “poetic realism.” · the use of everyday objects, which seen repeatedly and in the right contexts, become imbued with symbolic meaning.

Vocabulary for __A Streetcar Named Desire__ Due Friday, March 18 Scenes 1 and 2 - 15 points
 * start reading Streetcar
 * discuss long setting
 * hand out vocab assignment

Write a paragraph or two using all of the following words correctly. Underline the vocabulary words. Please be creative!

1. raffish 6. spasmodic 11. abscond 2. redolence 7. hypocritical 12. indolent 3. infatuated 8. heterogeneous 13. pinion 4. incongruous 9. ominous 14. dissonant 5. vivacity 10. perpetrate 15. sanctuary

Tuesday, March 15

 * read play

Wednesday, March 16

 * read play
 * notes on characters
 * notes on symbols

Thursday, March 17

 * read play

Friday, March 18

 * vocab paragraph due
 * vocab quiz?
 * read play