Rationale
This written task relates to part 3: literature- text and context, where we studied the play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams.
The written task is an extra scene added to the end of the play occurring twenty years later and is written in William’s style but with a more modern aspect. This is done to bring to light the transgressions of the antagonist of the play, Stanley Kowalski. The theme of past and present is explored as the characters pasts catch up to them. This is achieved by adding the character of the Kowalski’s son Daniel Kowalski, who’s utilized in this scene to highlight, once again, a fight for control as a stain is seen in Daniel and Stanley’s relationship that is also attributed to a battle of dominance. Moreover, …show more content…
STELLA: Daniel, stop antagonizing him.
[STANLEY forcefully puts his beer on the table and springs up from the couch. His potbelly-poking out from underneath his tight shirt, his looks fading as the years go by. STELLA moves to STANLEY and starts stroking his arm soothingly]
DANIEL: Why you always standing up for him momma? [STANLEY grips STELLA’s arm forcefully.]
STANLEY: Am a goddamn man, you will respect me in my house!
STELLA [flinching nervously]: Now, calm down, I respect you.
[DANIEL irritated, tugs STELLA’s right hand towards him. STANLEY tightens his grip on her left hand as they pull her to their side resembling children fighting over a toy.]
DANIEL: Unhand my mother you grim like piece of useless meat.
[Without preamble, STANLEY hurls his beer at DANIEL with a frenzy type of fury while still griping STELLA’s arm but DANIEL with instincts honed over the years, doges it. STELLA’s screams are heard over the shattering bottle as she stands frozen in-between the men. The music picks up to accommodate the rising tension.]
DANIEL [mockingly]: Looks like the ape wants to play.
[STANLEY shoves STELLA out of the away as he advances on
This written task relates to part 3: literature- text and context, where we studied the play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams.
The written task is an extra scene added to the end of the play occurring twenty years later and is written in William’s style but with a more modern aspect. This is done to bring to light the transgressions of the antagonist of the play, Stanley Kowalski. The theme of past and present is explored as the characters pasts catch up to them. This is achieved by adding the character of the Kowalski’s son Daniel Kowalski, who’s utilized in this scene to highlight, once again, a fight for control as a stain is seen in Daniel and Stanley’s relationship that is also attributed to a battle of dominance. Moreover, …show more content…
STELLA: Daniel, stop antagonizing him.
[STANLEY forcefully puts his beer on the table and springs up from the couch. His potbelly-poking out from underneath his tight shirt, his looks fading as the years go by. STELLA moves to STANLEY and starts stroking his arm soothingly]
DANIEL: Why you always standing up for him momma? [STANLEY grips STELLA’s arm forcefully.]
STANLEY: Am a goddamn man, you will respect me in my house!
STELLA [flinching nervously]: Now, calm down, I respect you.
[DANIEL irritated, tugs STELLA’s right hand towards him. STANLEY tightens his grip on her left hand as they pull her to their side resembling children fighting over a toy.]
DANIEL: Unhand my mother you grim like piece of useless meat.
[Without preamble, STANLEY hurls his beer at DANIEL with a frenzy type of fury while still griping STELLA’s arm but DANIEL with instincts honed over the years, doges it. STELLA’s screams are heard over the shattering bottle as she stands frozen in-between the men. The music picks up to accommodate the rising tension.]
DANIEL [mockingly]: Looks like the ape wants to play.
[STANLEY shoves STELLA out of the away as he advances on