Ogulcan Bayol‚ 11-H In the play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ written by Tennessee Williams‚ Blanche the protagonist who is mentally fragile and depends on her sister’s help to overcome various adversities as her husband’s passing away and her paying many debts decides to move to New Orleans‚ where her sister lives. Throughout the play‚ Blanche‚ who is from a southern part called Laurel‚ strives to conform to society’s norms and attempts to find a man to marry her; but she is incapable of feeling
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journey on 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
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A main theme in the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is how the women are treated in their marriages and in society. The story focuses on two sisters‚ Blanch DuBois and Stella Kowalski and their relationship with each other and their respective partners; Mitch and Stanley. Blanche is the older sister of Stella‚ who was a high school English teacher in Laurel‚ Mississippi‚ before she was forced to leave her job. Around the age of thirty‚ Blanche is an already fragile woman who
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relationships I have always wondered about the logic‚ thoughts and the actions of a person when in a conflict. I believe the idea of being happy with a special someone can create an individual to do some questionable things. In the play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ there is a display of strange notions that occurs. Stanley had slapped his wife‚ Stella‚ and she had left him for the apartment above to be with Eunice. But not too long after‚ Stanley is at the bottom of these steps bellowing “Stella! Stella
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push and pull rages on between the extremes of all spectrums in existence. One such war is depicted throughout Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire in the form of an explosive relationship between the play’s lead‚ Blanche DuBois‚ and her brother-in-law‚ Stanley Kowalski. Given that the former is the physical embodiment of illusion and the latter of reality‚ an ever-present air of mutual disdain persists from their first interaction to their last. This resentment is born out of three overarching
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examining Stella’s ineptitude to recognize Stanley’s true character‚ Blanche’s solace in her own fantasy‚ and contrasting them with Stanley’s hard set realistic view of life‚ Tennessee William reveals the only way to shield themselves from the horrors of reality is to live life in one’s own fantasy. Throughout the play‚ Stella avoids confronting the truth about Stanley and shelters herself with the myth that he is what is best for her. Stella can not face the truth when she knows it deep down. Once hearing
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Consider the characters of Stanley‚ Blanche and Stella and their behaviours in Scene 1. Using your own words‚ describe whether you think is reinforcing or challenging hegemony in “A Streetcar Named Desire”. I think Tennessee Williams is not challenging hegemony in the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” and it’s maintaining the cultural and social topics of the time. To start off‚ the characters of Stella‚ Stanley and Blanche are showing prejudices and discrimination by their actions‚ behaviour
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A Study in Color: A Streetcar Named Desire Throughout A Streetcar Named Desire‚ Tennessee Williams associates various colors with his characters in revealing their elements of honesty‚ societal status‚ and otherwise hidden parts of their lives to shed a light on expectations that the social order forces on different classes and types of people in American society. Blue is mentioned intermittently with Blanche and consistently in association with Stanley’s cold‚ lower-class status. Blanche’s main
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How effectively does the film portray the key themes and characters of Williams play? In 1949‚ Tennessee Williams released a novel entitled “A Streetcar named Desire”. Two years later Elia Kazan directed and released a movie based on the novel. She tried to recreate the film as closely as she could to the written play. How well did Kazan do this? Did she leave out key parts or did she cover them all? Did she model the characters perfectly according to the novel? Was she spot on or was she way off
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In a Streetcar Named Desire‚ women have a constant‚ recurring need to have support from a male counterpoint. From Stella leaving her plantation‚ to Blanche needing a steady stream of support from all the male characters she encounters‚ women are proven to have a need to feel supported and important by men. Stella leaves her plantation‚ with the knowledge that “The best [she] could was to make [her] own living.” And so Stella left the safety of her farm in order to make herself feel important and
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