I feel as though I must add to my blog…
I will admit that I do a lot of my reading on the treadmill, and when you are walking, not only are you moving, so is the text which you are trying to absorb. I do recommend reading while working out, because if there is a passionate scene in the book, romantic, trageic, interesting, you tend to forget that you are working out: However I digress…
So I was on the treadmill when I was reading scene 10 of the play, and don’t remember getting the indication that Stanley rapes Blanche. Until I re-read the scene (in preparation for the midterm tomorrow).
I feel stilly that I was so compassionate toward Stanley in my previous entry. There is defiantly a concern for Stella to get herself out of such a relationship! For Stella to be so attached to Stanley and believe him over her sister! (although Blanche doesn’t have the best ‘telling the truth’ track record).
I find it sad, and ironic that Blanche’s sensuality got her into SOOOOOO much trouble. While Stella is having Stanley’s baby, he rapes her sister. ….WOW…
No one deserves such treatment, and in reaction to my comment on Holly’s blog: I do think that she is guilty, however unquestionably didn’t deserve such a ‘punishment’.