linear unfolding from scene to scene. Also‚ there will be various types of characters with different types of personalities and behavior such as the protagonist and antagonist. The play‚ A StreetCar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams‚ shows characteristics of protagonist and antagonist. This play is about a woman named Blanche DuBois‚ who moves with her sister‚ Stella Kowalski‚ and her husband‚ Stanley Kowalski‚ in New Orleans. Blanche’s flirtatious behavior causes a lot of problems in Stella and Stanley
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Stella as the link between them. Stage directions describe Stanley as a virulent character whose chief pleasure is women. His dismissal of Blanche’s beauty is therefore significant‚ because it shows that she does not exude his same brand of carnal desire. On the other hand‚ Blanche’s delicate manners and sense of propriety are offended by Stanley’s brutish virility. Stanley’s qualities—variously described as vitality‚ heartiness‚ brutality‚ primitivism‚ lust for life‚ animalistic—lead him over the
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A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE He acts like an animal‚ Has an animal’s habits! Eats like one‚ moves like one‚ Talks like one!” Directors Note “I don’t want realism. I want magic!” This fantasy of wanting an ideal or perfect world has turned into an illusion with people both on the outside and inside. This illusion of an idea life and personal identity is portrayed not only in the real world today‚ but also Williams’ “A Streetcar Named Desire”. Representative of
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How does Williams alert us for the tragedy that is to follow in scene 1 of ’A Streetcar Named Desire’? ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ can be seen as a modern domestic tragedy‚ with base elements of traditional tragedy. Williams is able to alert us‚ with subtle hints in the very first scene of the play that a tragedy is going to occur‚ by creating an atmosphere that is both oppressive and claustrophobic. The portrayal of characters also adds to the tension as we realise that the two main protagonists
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A Streetcar Named Desire Essay 2. Human illusions have always been a powerful subject of plays‚ both tragic and comic. In what ways has Williams considered this aspect of human behavior and with what effects? In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire”‚ Tennessee Williams has considered human illusions through the use of a few conventions of drama. The language attributed to certain characters creates unrealistic images of approaches to situations at hand. He uses symbols and props to transmit the
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How does Williams portray the character of Stanley and his attitudes? In your answer you should consider Williams’ use of language choices and dramatic techniques Stanley is the primary male character in A Streetcar Named Desire. His dominating role encompasses the cultural values of Elysian Fields‚ where men are breadwinners and women are the homemakers. On first appearance Stanley is portrayed as a physically attractive man and dominating attitude towards his wife. He is he is a proud ‘American’
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Streetcar Named Desire Scene 2 1) Stella tells Stanley that Belle Reve (Rive?) is lost. It leads to a little argument. He asks for the papers‚ looks inside her trunk. He finds clothes‚ letters from Blanche’s dead husband‚ in a tin box. Napoleonic code. Stanley reveals Stella’s pregnancy. Belle Reve was lost on mortgage‚ sold by Ambler & Ambler 2) Sees through Blanche’s trunk. “Your looks are okay” -> Blanche was expecting compliments 3) Beautiful dresses - no paper at the
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Perspectives of Streetcar Streetcar is a play with many interpretations as John Bak’s survey of the critics illustrates ‘A play about post war F.D.R. America’ and Savran p.89 describes the 1940-50 American South with civilization in collapse with profound economic ‚social‚ and political reorientation. Another view is ‘A psychological study of a fragile mind‘s struggle to negotiate nostalgia with reality’. Kazan’s note book views Stanley as representing ‘the crude forces of violence‚ insensibility
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SETTING OBJECTIVES AND PROVIDING FEEDBACK This week’s reading is related to how learning objectives should be‚ what learning objectives should engage with and importance of providing feedback. Learning objectives are what students learn in class. Feedback is making comment on what students need to do to improve their performance and understanding. Setting objectives has some features to increase effectiveness of objectives. The first one is that learning objectives are not too general or too
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Although many essays written about A Streetcar Named Desire concerns the "social attitude and psychological constitutions of its characters‚"(61) and the author‚ Tennessee Williams’‚ purpose in using of symbolism and imagery‚ Leonard Quirino instead intents to examine and emphasize the use of symbolism and how Tennessee Williams uses it in order to construct his marvelous play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire. Instead of focusing in terms of its theatrical presentation‚ Quirino sets out to reveal how two
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