The Thrill of the Fight
The Thrill of the Fight
Charlotte Brontë and Elia Kazan
This chapter examines two intensely psychological stories of women whose lives appear to be damaged and even destroyed by the forces of sexual repression: Charlotte Brontë's Villette (1853) and Eliza Kazan's film adaptation of A Streetcar Named Desire (1951). It argues that Brontë's and Kazan's interactions with their respective moral censors were marked less by victimization and oppression than by stimulation and inspiration. Both artists were, in the end, paradoxically motivated by the moral complaints lodged against them to communicate their ideas in subtler, richer, and more powerful ways.
Keywords: Villette, Streetcar Named Desire, censorship, sexual repression
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