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独创性声明及学位论文版权使用授权书
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
1. Brief introduction to Tennessee Williams
2. Brief account of the story
3. Contemporary criticism and my argument
4. Brief account of psychoanalysis and the present approach
Chapter Ⅰ. SOCIAL SIGNIFICANCE AND THE THEMATIC ORIENTATION
1.1 The American South vs. post-WWⅡ Industrialism
1.1.1 Streetcar is not a play of an individual
1.1.2 The social context of the play
1.2 Williams's call for compassion and understanding as the solution
Chapter Ⅱ.CHARACTER ANALYSIS OF BLANCHE DUOIS:A SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE
2.1 Characters in Streetcar and their relationships
2.2. A general view of Blanche's past
2.2.1 Blanche's aristocratic family
2.2.2 Blanche's marriage with Allan Grey and its aftereffects
2.3 Blanche vs. Stanley: a multidimensional antagonism
2.3.1 Moth vs. Mammoth: fragility in the hands of vulgarity
2.3.2 Sex: Stanley's weapon against Blanche
2.3.3 Battle of territorial dominance: contrast between disparate social values
2.4 Blanche vs. Stella: two tragic Southern women
2.4.1 The sisterly intimacy: similar southern breeding
2.4.2 Different sexual orientation: reserved vs. liberated
2.4.3 Different solutions to problems: illusion vs. tolerance
2.5 Blanche vs. Mirch: protégé vs. protector or victim vs. victimizer
2.5.1 Protégé vs. Protector: Mitch is not a protector
2.5.2 Victim vs. Victimizer: Mitch is a victimizer
2.6 Summary of the character analysis: the broken world
Chapter Ⅲ. BLANCHE DUBOIS'S EGO:A PSYCHOANALYTIC APPROACH
3.1 The Id-Ego-Superego division of the mind
3.2 Blanche's neurotic symptoms:
3.2.1 Blanche's loss of identity
3.2.2 Inability of proper sexuality and human contact
3.2.3 Obsessive repentance and profuse illusions
3.3 A psychoanalytic summary of Blanche DuBois's neurosis
3.3.1 Blanche's id and the outlet of the libido energy
3.3.2 Blanche's superego: internalization of her cultivation
CONCLUSION
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