Motifs in 'Streetcar Named Desire'
Recurring structures, contrasts, or literary devices that can help to develop and inform the text’s major themes
Instructions: Find three examples from the text that display the motifs of color, drunkenness, light, and bathing. Record the example with the page and scene. Be sure to explain what has happened just before the quotation and what happens just after the quotation (context). Write 3-5 sentences that explains the connection between the example and the motif. You might show how the example develops one of the themes.
Success Criteria
Instructions: Find three examples from the text that display the motifs of color, drunkenness, light, and bathing. Record the example with the page and scene. Be sure to explain what has happened just before the quotation and what happens just after the quotation (context). Write 3-5 sentences that explains the connection between the example and the motif. You might show how the example develops one of the themes.
Success Criteria
- I can identify an example of one of the motifs from the scene.
- I write down the quotation with the page number and the scene number
- I can explain the context of the quotation
- I can analyze/explain how the motif develops the theme.