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    The book a streetcar named desire is about a girl called Blanche Dubois‚she’s a very depressing girl because she caught her husband cheating with another man in the 1980’s.But‚ there’s many element that are many difference between the book and the movie. First of all‚ the first difference that was really easy to see was the way the paper boy was acting toward Blanche. In the book‚ when Blanche was trying to flirt with him he wasn’t really into her‚ he was scared and shocked and he backed off but

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    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 downfall. The story develops when Blanche loses Belle Reve. She had been

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    is very frequent in the character Stanley Kowalski. Stanley is a married‚ young man‚ who comes across to the reader as quite an enraged person with animalistic attributes. A prime insinuation of Stanley’s difference to regular humans is when Stella DuBois (Stanley’s wife) explains to her sister that Stanley is of “a different species”‚ foreshadowing that Williams may be warning the reader that Stanley is capable of things that are not in the norm. Additionally‚ his manner of walking is often described

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    Finding Themselves In life there are hardships we experience that may lead us realize and shaped our identity. Hardships are a part of life that everyone must deal with. These hardships can either enable you to succeed or cause you to fail. The outcome of these obstacles all depend on how this situations are handled. As demonstrated by the short excerpt "Over the Rocks and Stones" by Chantal Kreviazuk. The Author describes how she value the hardships and fears she experienced and realizes that these

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    surgeries‚ she desperately maintains her perfect image on the media as she makes the lives of those around her miserable. A Streetcar Named Desire‚ adapted from Tennessee Williams’ play‚ this film follows a story about a former schoolteacher‚ Blanche DuBois‚ who leaves a small town

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    Tennessee Williams’ Harold Mitchel: Chivalrous Knight to Cowardly Boy In Tennessee William’s play “A Streetcar Named Desire”‚ Harold Mitchel stands out as a chivalrous man among his group of friends and thus catches the eye of Blanche DuBois. Blanche desperately relies on his gentlemanly nature and demands a certain amount of cavalier that he is pleased to match. Harold‚ better knows as Mitch‚ gets clumsily excited around Blanche’s extraordinary behavior‚ which‚ in substitute‚ feeds her desire

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    antagonism. An unending war of 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

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    play like this is concidered normal‚ or average as far as the contrivisrail espects are concerned‚ but in the 40s a character like Blanche Dubois was something that challegned the moral of the ideal american family. This play is about Blanche DuBois‚ a schoolteacher from Laurel‚ Mississippi. She arrives in New Orleans to live with her sister‚ Stella Kowalski. Blanche told her sister that she lost their their ancestral home Belle Reve‚ following the death of all their remaining relatives and husband

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    reality‚ Blanche Dubois arrives in New Orleans with the impression of a patronising‚ wealthy school teacher who has no time for those who she believes to be below her class as we see in her rudeness to Eunice at the very beginning. As the play progresses we see that Blanche is merely projecting a persona which hides both her past and the inevitably grim future that awaits her. On the other side we have Blanche’s brother-in-law Stanley who acts in opposition of the illusion which Blanche has created

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    Analysis of Major Characters Blanche DuBois When the play begins‚ Blanche is already a fallen woman in society’s eyes. Her family fortune and estate are gone‚ she lost her young husband to suicide years earlier‚ and she is a social pariah due to her indiscrete sexual behavior. She also has a bad drinking problem‚ which she covers up poorly. Behind her veneer of social snobbery and sexual propriety‚ Blanche is an insecure‚ dislocated individual. She is an aging Southern belle who lives in a state

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