Character Objectives 24/09/14 MG

Today in class we create montages in groups from the lines in which the character Stanley used throughout the play. These lines were 2 things he said about other people, 1 thing he said about himself and 1 that other people had said about him. We took the lines and acted as the characters using out knowledge of Stanley after reading the whole text and also thinking about the way in which other characters acted and perceived Stanley to be. We then examined carefully at two scenes in "A streetcar named Desire". These were from different times in the play, one extract from the beginning when Stanley and Blanche first meet, and then other from towards the end just before Stanley rapes Blanche. These scenes were chosen so far apart because we wanted to really see the contrast between how we first perceived Blanche to how we do now and broaden our understanding of how Blanches "madness" developed over the time of staying with Stan. However most importantly we wanted to see the way in which our characters objectives have changed throughout the play. 

We then established a partner in which we were to perform this extract with. I worked with Fionna we were given the early extract. We first determined our characters objectives (this is what they character is trying to gain or do). As Stanley I was very set on being nice to Blanche and told her to "take it easy" asking her numerous questions and being friendly. However Stanley also wanted very much to impress Blanche and show his masculinity he did so but taking of his shirt after asking to "get comfortable" and then seemed to indulge himself in Blanches personal space almost forcing her to touch him to show his strength.