Streetcar Named Desire & Mean Girls
Streetcar Named Desire & Mean Girls speech/essay:
In every human relationship, there is some kind of power involved. It is the core of all human relationships. The power of seduction between a women and a man, the power of persuasion, the power of strength over weakness, the power that a parent holds over a child, power of wealth and social statues are just some different kinds of power which are adapted in own everyday lives. With friendship, comes decisions, which comes then with control which ends up just being power over these person. Power is used to have a kind of upper hand on someone(s) or to have control over them. In the play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams 1947 and the film ‘Mean Girls’ directed by Mark Waters , both highly express and illustrate these different roles of power through the characters and stereotyping, dialogue, motifs and techniques.
The main characters in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ are Blanche, Stanley and Stella. Blanche is from old world America. She moves to New Orleans with her sister Stella and her husband Stanley after she goes through a bad time in her life and losses her job along with her family house. Blanche has power over her sister, and she abuses this power. This is first demonstrated when Blanche asks her sister to get her a drink from the drug store and she does so ‘Blanche- Honey, do me a favour. Run to the drug-store and get me a lemon-coke with plenty of chipped ice in it! – Will you do that for me, Sweetie?’ This demonstrates the power of fear which Stella feels. She believes that if she does not comply with her sisters ‘orders’ then she will have a more stressful and difficult life so she obeys.
Blanche grow up on a large estate along with her sister, although unlike Stella, Blanche believes that her background and statues, which she no longer has, will gain her the control she so desperately seeks. But, the character Stanley gains control over her because of his has financial income which
In every human relationship, there is some kind of power involved. It is the core of all human relationships. The power of seduction between a women and a man, the power of persuasion, the power of strength over weakness, the power that a parent holds over a child, power of wealth and social statues are just some different kinds of power which are adapted in own everyday lives. With friendship, comes decisions, which comes then with control which ends up just being power over these person. Power is used to have a kind of upper hand on someone(s) or to have control over them. In the play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams 1947 and the film ‘Mean Girls’ directed by Mark Waters , both highly express and illustrate these different roles of power through the characters and stereotyping, dialogue, motifs and techniques.
The main characters in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ are Blanche, Stanley and Stella. Blanche is from old world America. She moves to New Orleans with her sister Stella and her husband Stanley after she goes through a bad time in her life and losses her job along with her family house. Blanche has power over her sister, and she abuses this power. This is first demonstrated when Blanche asks her sister to get her a drink from the drug store and she does so ‘Blanche- Honey, do me a favour. Run to the drug-store and get me a lemon-coke with plenty of chipped ice in it! – Will you do that for me, Sweetie?’ This demonstrates the power of fear which Stella feels. She believes that if she does not comply with her sisters ‘orders’ then she will have a more stressful and difficult life so she obeys.
Blanche grow up on a large estate along with her sister, although unlike Stella, Blanche believes that her background and statues, which she no longer has, will gain her the control she so desperately seeks. But, the character Stanley gains control over her because of his has financial income which