A Streetcar Named Desire: A03 Context Fact Sheet

A03, context, is a key aspect to achieving top-band results in A-Level English.

This resources provides a useful, concise, one-stop sheet to all the AO3 required to support any excellent Streetcar essay!

Not only does this resource provide the relevant context, but it clearly links each point back to the play, to make clear how each piece of AO3 knowledge can be linked back to the play.

The resource explores the following:

• The setting of New Orleans and the significance
• Gender Roles: the domestic and doting wife
• Gender Roles: working -class men
• Williams’ connection to Blanche as a character
• Williams’ core theme to his writing in general, and how this is deeply connected to Streetcar
• The connections between the play and Williams’ own life