I love Robert‚ yet I love myself more. My new life beckons me‚ and as I walk towards it‚ my uncertainties are being crushed under my feet. The soft sand of the shore dissolves my doubts and vulnerabilities. I want to be my own mistress and pet any desire that arouses in me. I intend to immerse myself in my passion for painting and colors. Just as I want to create engrossing pictures that exhibit an amalgamation of the striking spectrum of colors‚ I also want to paint my life in diverse and
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In this poem‚ the speaker emphasizes a clash between the enticing aroma of desire and the destruction that vain desire has brought down upon the speaker. He describes Desire’s “worthless woe” in an effort to help the reader get a sense for the intense feeling of contempt that the speaker has for Desire. The alliteration in this line helps to smooth out the delivery of the poem‚ creating a pattern that mirrors human speech. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABABBABABCCBCC‚ and the number of syllables
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In Tennessee William’s play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ binary oppositions of light and darkness‚ or fantasy and reality‚ reveal the roles they play in the major characters and how these binaries cannot come together. The motif of light illuminates Blanche’s loss of innocence‚ while darkness hides her insecurities and shadows her fear of reality. Blanche fears light because of the loss she experienced as a teenager; since she has always avoided strong light and stuck to the shadows and darkness
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When Blanche Ingram was young she was a very happy child‚ she had two loving parents and a beautiful baby sister as well as a small ragamuffin of a dog named yappers. When Blanche was seven her father and yappers were involved in a carriage raid and were mercilessly slaughtered by some bandits. Blanche was devastated. After the funeral many secrets of Mr. Ingrams finances were unveiled. Mr. Ingram was an avid gambler and loved the rush of watching a horse race down a track or watching two
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Hamlet vowed he would stop at nothing until his father’s death was avenged‚ which lead to many deaths. The play revolves around the theme of “Appearance vs. Reality” because of the ways characters try to hide their true intent and how the characters use deception by spying and plotting on each other. A way Hamlet revolves around the theme of “Appearance vs. Reality” because of the way characters hide their true intent. In Act III scene I‚ Polonius was talking about Hamlet’s love for Ophelia when he says
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family from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and The Dubois-Kowalski family from Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire both demonstrate that it is imperative for a family to have peace or otherwise a family would face the danger of tragedy. The Crucible imparts the significance of peace in the domestic setting through the moving tragedy of the Proctor family. In this play‚ the theme of desire is the catalyst for the family’s tragedy. Abigail Williams‚ a beautiful young girl‚ becomes sexually
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Within the play Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams‚ the lives and relationship of Blanche DuBois and Stella Kowalski are plotted out in a scene of events that depicts astute betrayal and out of the ordinary family matters. Based on the time period of this play‚ that being of the Old South conservative dominated region of New Orleans with local and national aristocracy still in heavy play‚ the traditions play out in a way that involve a simple family dispute turning in to Blanche
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who brought Southern Gothic style to popularity. He conveyed realistic‚ broken characters to his audience‚ drawing inspiration to his own family. In 1947 A Streetcar Named Desire first appeared on the Broadway stage. In 1948 it had brought fame to Marlon Brando and won Williams a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Within the drama‚ themes of beauty‚ desire‚ manipulation‚ and social class draw empathy for the manipulative Blanche. Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26‚ 1911‚ one of three
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Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof both have dysfunctional family relationships in them. In Streetcar‚ you could see these dysfunctional family relationships in a few different places. The first area that this issue was present was in the relationship between the sisters Blanche and Stella. The dysfunctionality is obvious when Blanche showed up and was oblivious of Stella’s marriage. There is also a dysfunctionality relationship displayed in Cat. In Cat‚ there are a multitude of examples
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man being just as capable of tragedy as a King. Blanche Dubois exemplifies Arthur Miller’s ideas of tragic figures who suffer from terror and fear of self delusion. Blanche suffers from trying to deceive herself and others about her lifestyle and appearance. Arthur Miller said‚ The flaw‚ or crack in the characters‚ is really nothing-and need be nothing‚ but his inherent unwillingness to remain passive in the face of what he conceives to be a challenge to his dignity‚ his image of his rightful status
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