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    Loneliness In A Streetcar Named Desire‚ the author Tennessee Williams chooses to depict the downfall of Blanche through her desire to evade loneliness. Throughout the text‚ Blanche faces loneliness‚ yet she cannot fill her desire. After the loss of her family estate referred to as‚ Belle Reve‚ is officially rendered without family. Having lost her wealth and all her family‚ she develops the inability to be honest with anyone interested in her. Blanches true desire to evade loneliness causes her

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    Williams has certainly used symbolism and colour extremely effectively in his play‚ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. A moving story about fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois and her lapse into insanity‚ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ contains much symbolism and clever use of colour. This helps the audience to link certain scenes and events to the themes and issues that Williams presents within the play‚ such as desire and death‚ and the conflict between the old America and the new. Scene Three is one of the pivotal

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    A Christmas Carol Many social issue are in Charles Dickens‚ A Christmas Carol‚ with the vast majority of them having to do with scrooge. Scrooge begins the story with no Christmas spirit whatsoever‚ but he changes into a warmhearted teddybear at the end. A Christmas Carol shows that kindness is the way to go rather than being mean and greedy. A social issue that is touched on in this novel is the lack of sympathy that people have towards each other. Scrooge is mean to his family and friends

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    Blanche‚ Stella’s older sister‚ until recently a high school English teacher in Laurel‚ Mississippi. She arrives in New Orleans a loquacious‚ witty‚ arrogant‚ fragile‚ and ultimately crumbling figure. Blanche once was married to and passionately in love with a tortured young man. He killed himself after she discovered his homosexuality‚ and she has suffered from guilt and regret ever since. Blanche watched parents and relatives‚ all the old guard‚ die off‚ and then had to endure foreclosure on the

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    the streetcar called desire represents the journey of her own life. Desire is her first step‚ just as it was the first step of her life after her husband died. That is why she slept with many men after he died. Her next step of her journey is Cemeteries‚ which is a symbol for death. Elysian Fields is the name of the street where Stella and Stanley live. The play and title tells us everything like the plot and theme. Desire is the key the whole movie was about Blanche desire to be accepted by the

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    The Human Person and Sexual Desire Human beings have a natural tendency to violate the natural laws of the universe‚ such as destroying rainforests or spilling oil into the ocean. Our treatment of sexual activity is similar in regards to us violating the purpose of sexual activity‚ which is reproduction. When God created the earth‚ God’s purpose was for humans to “be fruitful and multiply”. Nowhere in there did God say anything about engaging in sex for the purpose of pleasure. However‚ human

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    the 21st century. We all can feel how sin pollutes our life. The sin of sexual desire hits us all at our core and tries to break down the barriers of our faith. Sexual desire itself is not sinful‚ when used in marriage. However‚ when sexual desire causes catastrophic effects and pollutes our everyday living‚ it becomes dangerously sinful. Which is gratified in these three epics. Consequently‚ the sin of sexual desire in Gilgamesh‚ the Iliad and Aeneid ultimately leads to the humiliation of

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    Nostalgia‚ the desire to live in the past and a feeling that mainly every person experiences. To go back to the days where a person was innocent and didn’t care about the actions they performed‚ no matter how silly and foolish the actions were. Mainly‚ nostalgia is something that is believe to have a positive meaning where a person recalls good memories. However‚ nostalgia can consume you and cause a negative aspect. Tony Hoagland’s book Sweet Ruins tells about the nostalgia that a character feels

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    "Suppressed Desires" by Susan Glaspell is a two-scene play about a woman‚ Henrietta‚ who is obsessed with dream interpretation and seems unable to stop over-analyzing the dreams of her husband‚ Stephen‚ and Henrietta’s unsophisticated sister‚ Mabel. Mabel knows so little about psychoanalysis that she think it is "something about war‚" though she has seen a psychiatrist‚ Dr. Russell‚ the same psychiatrist who cares for Stephen. Henrietta respects psychoanalysis until eventually‚ her mind changes about

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    A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" presents a fragment from the lives of a few individuals who meet in less desirable circumstances and eventually produce one of the most remarkable American modern tragedies. The main characters of this story are Blanche DuBois‚ Stella Kowalski‚ Stanley Kowalski and Harold “Mitch” Mitchell‚ and Eunice. The play begins with a verse from “The Broken Tower” by Hart Crane which Williams uses with the intent to prepare the reader

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