female protagonists in A Streetcar Named Desire and Top Girls. The Southern Belle protagonist‚ Blanche Dubois‚ by the playwright Tennessee Williams is deeply haunted by her past‚ which is limiting her identity in the present and in order to cope; the protagonist creates fantasy. Blanche’s past is being presented here as the chain she finds difficult to forget‚ indeed difficult to avoid too. Blanche is unaware of the society she is in now- the cosmopolitan New Orleans‚ and here is a shift in society
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insanity of Blanche‚ all to show uniquely human qualities. To say that Stanley is an animalistic and primitive being‚ would be stating the obvious. Being married to the naïve Stella‚ his virility is even more apparent than it would be with just Stanley alone. By using these two vitally different human natures‚ Williams is able to dictate the inner conflict each person battles‚ the constant battle between their virtuousness and their desires‚ in a microscoped perspective. Blanche has her own sort
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author mainly focuses on Blanche Dubois‚ a woman who moved to her sister’s house due to the loss of Belle Reve‚ her family home. She is a deceptive and selfish person‚ who cannot accept the occurrence of agony in her life. She mentally deteriorates due to the lost and rejection of love‚ and due to her selfishness. She chooses to hide from the truth. When an individual hides from reality‚ it will only result in them hurting themselves. At the beginning of the play‚ Blanche is already in a nervous
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[Both Stanley’s and Stella’s tempers starts to rise. Stanley stands up‚ facing his body toward Stella while she remains to sit on the bed.] STANLEY [bellowing]: But I understood you‚ Stell! [Stanley attempts sway Stella from her ideas of Blanche.] Baby‚ can’t we go back to the way it was before? You remember that? I pulled you down from her world‚ and you loved it! Oh‚ baby doll‚ we were so happy together. All the fun we had! All alone with nobody to hear us! I pulled you down from the columns
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be in have supremacy over women‚ conversely he is being aggressive because he is aggravated by the fact that Blanche is living with the couple and inspiring trouble between them. At the start it is very translucent that Stanley does not have anything in opposition to Blanche for instance when the twosome first meet Stanley is very interested in Blanche’s past “what do you teach‚ Blanche?” This indicates that Stanley is very intrigued by her sister-in-laws past and wants to get to know her; this
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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 being carried out by the psychiatric ward. Blanche’s
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by both material wealth and a male dominated society. In both Death of a Salesman and a Streetcar Named desire the main protagonist of the play‚ blanche dubois and Willy loman are both trapped in a illusion that are created by the effects of society‚ however these illusions that are created are used by their protagonists for separate reasons. Blanche uses the illusion as a deffence mechanism against those who suppress her in society while Willy simply is not fully consciously aware that he is even
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Streetcar Named Desire‚ Tennessee Williams portrayed Blanche to be an extremely complex character. She was depicted as a delicate‚ pure woman‚ and eventually a lonely alcoholic! She was neither completely good nor bad‚ because she was so torn by conflicting and contradictory desires and needs. It is evident that the tragedies that occurred in her life contribute to the complexity of her character. In the very first scene of the play Blanche appeared wearing a white suit. As Williams describes
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South A Streetcar Named Desire‚ a play by Tennessee Williams‚ takes place in New Orleans in the mid-1940s. It follows the lives of Stanley Kowalski‚ Stella Kowalski‚ and Blanche DuBois and the story about a woman coming to visit her sister‚ which ends up going just as bad as any family reunion has ever gone. From the moment Blanche got to Elysium Fields‚ her and Stanley‚ Stella’s husband‚ appear as polar opposites and are constantly at war with each other. They never can agree on anything‚ are always
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human existence‚ simply because it affects how we view ourselves and also others view us. Blanche Dubois‚ Stanley Kowalski‚ Harold Mitch‚ and Stella Kowalski all learned this through their continuous evolution throughout “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams‚ however by focusing on Blanche’s relations and also her past we are able to see the role that that perception plays in her life. When Blanche says‚“A woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion” this becomes increasingly significant because
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