A Streetcar Named Desire: Visual, Aural and Spatial :: English Literature

trolley Named Desire Visual, Aural and SpatialThe healthy for A Streetcar Named Desire is effective but this couldbe built upon to improve it and build a more(prenominal) intense atmosphere. Thestage directions do state when good for you(p) should be used, they usuallystate the piece of music and the way in which it should be played, forexample Blue piano and the hot trumpet sound louder. I think that ifan amalgamation of types of music such as slavish music,recorded sounds and vocal pieces. This would provide a range of soundsand would be more interesting for the audience. More sound could beused to reflect the attain taking place in the play, an example beingwhen, in outlook Ten, when Blanche is trying to get hold of ShepHuntleigh and is getting more and more brainsick this would be anappropriate time for some fast paced music to kick upstairs her panic.The space on the stage could have been used a the great unwashed more effectively.The actors could use the whole of the stage, split certain parts of itup to represent different rooms and scenes, also the ever-changing of spaceto produce dramatic effect. A good example of a use of this changingspace is in Scene Ten before Blanche gets raped by Stanley, the scenecould start with the space room sized and then as he becomes moredominating over her it shrinks to try out how trapped she feels.The picture in the play needs to be relevant to the era and milieu of New Orleans, realistic enough so that the audienceknow where they argon and ar interesting but not so much that it takesthe condense of the play away from the actors, the scenery should be lifelike, for example the matt, if it is flat like then the audience canrelate with the characters and it can make it feel more real.The era of the play is also set by the costume that the actors wear tosuggest the time and conditions that the characters live in, thecostumes should also prescribe the class of the people in the play asthere are clear divi des. For example Blanche would wear long frillysummer dresses to show that she is still living in the past and wearsclothes that draw wariness to herself and most importantly, make herlook attractive. Blanches make up would be highlighted to show hervanity but also to give the appearance that she is younger than sheis. The scenery would show to the audience exactly what it is that she