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    Belle Reve. Blanche‚ Stella’s sister who was a southern belle‚ once represented this beautiful dream. The beautiful dream represents everything that Blanche once was and had. Blanche and Stella come from a family who lived the American dream. Blanche was successful‚ beautiful and charming. Blanche lost this life when she lost her mansion at Belle Reve. She depends on the kindness of strangers. Because of this‚ Blanche and Stanley do not get along. Stanley represents everything that Blanche is not‚

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    shown to live their life in either the way of illusion or reality. Harold Mitchell‚ also known as Mitch buys into Blanches illusions. He is overtaken by her charm‚ but in the end finally faces reality. Stella who is Blanches sister is always wishing for everything to be perfect with her and Stanley even though he abuses her. She overlooks Stanley’s downfalls to escape her reality. Blanche is the center of all illusion. She fishes for complements and believes she is a step up from all people. Lying to

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    2014 Eunice in A Streetcar Named Desire In Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire he creates many minor characters that have a huge underlying significance in the plot. All of the minor characters have huge impacts on Stella‚ Stanley‚ and Blanche‚ all of whom are main characters. Eunice is both Stella’s friend and neighbor who often helps Stella when the going gets rough. Not only is Eunice very helpful‚ her relationship with her husband Steve gives us an understanding of the neighborhood

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    inevitable extinction of the morals and values of the aristocratic society that Blanche‚ the main protagonist has come to represent is clearly implied through the course of scene 10. Her illusions‚ the very foundation of her life‚ are destroyed and this reflects the decay in her power‚ status‚ and mental capacity. Symbolically‚ this scene is used by Williams to show the death of the aristocratic values of Blanche. Blanche herself realises this and believes she is in “desperate circumstances” as she

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    progress. The retroactive structure of Top Girls reinforces this. Marlene attempts to escape her working class roots in the city office‚ but the chain of her past‚ her daughter Angie‚ imprisons her in this very environment she seeks to flee. Blanche Dubois seeks refuge in her sister’s world in an attempt to release herself from the chains of her past; presenting herself as a ‘Southern Belle’ in search of a gentleman and holding on to Old Southern traditional values: she is always incongruous to

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    POINT; Stanley has power over Blanche as he knows about her past. Blanche fears that news will get around. EVIDENCE; He goes out Blanche rises from her chair. She seems faint; looks about her with an expression of almost panic’. EXPLAIN; Blanche doesn’t want anyone to find out about her past‚ but she knows Stanley has therefore he has a power over her and is almost black- mailing her

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    Stanley stands up and smacks his wife in her thigh. As hours and hours pass by‚ Stella says to Stanley and his friends “Drunk‚ Drunk‚ animal thing‚ you!” Then Stanley charges after Stella and smacks her again‚ but this time the pain made Stella cry. Blanche and Stella exited the house after this fiasco. Stella wants to be able to have some wife and husband time with Stanley‚ but all

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    I believe the primary theme of A Streetcar Named Desire is madness as the result of a disconnect between idealism and reality. The main character of the play‚ Blanche DuBois‚ refuses to face reality‚ keeping her past mistakes and losses hidden from those around her by hiding in the shadows of madness and deception. She wishes nothing more than to escape from who she is‚ avoiding the interrogation lamp of life at all costs to conceal her depressing past and frightening present. In doing so‚ she falls

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    A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love‚ its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice "The Broken Tower" by Hart Crane SCENE ONE The exterior of a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs between the L & N tracks and the river. The section is poor but‚ unlike corresponding

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    see the first resentment between Stanley and Blanch over the loss of Belle Reve. In attempt to restore his compromised dignity he‚ according to stage directions “[becomes] somewhat sheepish” (Williams 38(stage directions)‚ when resorting to tell Blanche about the baby he and Stella are having. In the 1951 film version Stanley is shown to be overly confident‚ “asserting his

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