Drama Unit Socratic Seminar Questions Part 1: A Streetcar Named Desire 1. Blanche who is homeless‚ comes to her sister’s house at the beginning. Blanche had been a schoolteacher‚ married Allan‚ a man she later discovered to be gay. Her reactions to his sexual orientation caused him to commit suicide. Lonely‚ she becomes a prostitute‚ who loses her teaching career when her sexual relationship with a teenager is found out. After the family plantation Belle Reve is lost‚ she turns to her little sister
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extremely uncomfortable with his sexuality? • He also has a preoccupation with physical ugliness and the inevitability of death. He suffered a crisis in 1946 when he believed‚ incorrectly‚ that he was suffering from incurable cancer. Is this why Blanche is so afraid of the light? • His sister Rose suffered a breakdown in 1937 and was admitted to a mental hospital and‚ not long afterwards‚ she was lobotomised. Williams suffered from depression throughout his life and lived in fear that he too
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Streetcar named Desire: Journal Entries Analysis: In scene three‚ while Blanche is conversing with Mitch‚ Blanche mentions her intolerance towards bright light as she is afraid it will expose every detail of her facial impurities. She is ashamed of her age so therefore she tries to conceal it by lying to make herself seem younger than she actually is. This represents her insecurity and self-consciousness. The light in this scene is a symbol of revealing the truth‚ and the lampshade is what hides
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Hello‚ Mr. Shep Huntleigh this is Blanche Dubois‚ I just wanted to write you to let you know how I have spent this amazing summer traveling all over the states. First of all‚ I had to get out of my large estate out in Mississippi; the maids and workmen almost drove me crazy. So I figured that a young and pure women like myself should get out and explore. I went down to New Orleans to pick up my sister‚ who was pregnant at the time‚ because she desired to get some fresh air‚ and see this beautiful
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Reality VS Fantasy In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams‚ the motif of reality vs fantasy is used alot throughout the play. The fantasy part of this motif can be seen especially through Blanche‚ one of the characters. Blanche believes she is a young‚ beautiful and intelligent women but in reality she is not. Another fantasy seen in the play can be seen through the other characters because they hide from reality by acting as if some events did not happen. When the men would
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about their demise. ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ is the famous story of Blanche du Bois and Stanley Kowalski’s passionate power struggle; written by Tennessee Williams in 1947‚ the Play is set in New Orleans‚ Louisiana in the late 1940s. To judge what extent Stanley is a villain it is necessary to first assess which criteria of a typical villain he fits. Throughout the play Stanley proves that he inflicts emotional pain on Blanche‚ and by not letting her forget her past and by destroying any possibility
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other. However‚ this theme is not always prevalent in positive dialogue‚ as in Tennessee Williams’ A Street Car Named Desire‚ Blanche and Stanley do not go on a date or enjoy any romantic dialogue‚ but fight each other for supremacy of the house and Stella’s affection. Although a boxing rhythm is being imposed on Sure Thing‚ the persistent fighting between Stanley and Blanche in A Street Car Named Desire can be interpreted to have a similar rhythm. Although these two texts are seemingly opposite in
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mutual physical attachment to one another that she fails to realize she is being physically and mentally abused everyday of her life. Stella and Blanche share that unique sister connection between one another as they both have the other’s best intentions in mind. Blanche discretely insults her sister at times only to mask her own personal insecurities. Blanche and Stanley bump heads throughout the entire play. Stanley’s actions and remarks vividly depict his negative feelings towards his sister in law
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stage through the haunting memories of Blanche’s past. The Flaws in Blanche which are revealed to the audience by Stanley are rather shocking. It is revealed that Blanche began to take part in cheap forms of entertainment at a hotel called Flamingo. According to Stanley the Flamingo did not mind these their guests taking part in these kinds of entertainment‚ although the management at the Flamingo was forced into throwing Blanche out as she had made quite a reputation of herself. The audience is further
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is an artistic demonstration of T.S. Eliot’s observation. In Streetcar‚ Blanche‚ a woman in crisis‚ visits her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley in New Orleans. Blanche is from an upper-class background but has fallen on hard times‚ both economically and emotionally. Stanley is from a lower-class background with a cruel streak a mile wide. What ensues is a conflict of epic proportions between Stanley and Blanche‚ with Stella torn between the two. Each character operates within his or
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