Women and Misogyny and Fatalism in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams wrote this critically acclaimed play during the 20th century when women and their place in society were greatly challenged. According to Boydston (2004) men were breadwinners and women resided in the home where they would raise children and maintain the home. As protector of the home‚ women exhibited characteristics such as piety‚ purity and domesticity. The notion of women entering the workforce‚
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play‚ language‚ and his use of personality clashes of the characters and their individual mannerisms such as Blanche and Stanley. The Blue Piano is a mood setter. It usually is present when Blanche is talking about the loss of Belle Reve and her family. The blue piano stands for Blanche’s loneliness and depression and longing for love. The blue piano grows louder in scenes where Blanche is usually hysterical with some saddening remembrance‚ such as the loss of Belle Reve‚ and the deaths she had
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handles things roughly. When he first suspects that Blanche is lying to them about what happened to Belle Reve‚ he tears apart her suitcase in attempts to find proof that she is lying. In this process‚ however‚ he throws everything out of her suitcase and handles her things in a harsh and violent manner. This showed Stella that he was in charge of the household and that he controlled everything that happened. Stanley‚ at the end of the play‚ rapes Blanche when she is in a vulnerable position after Mitch
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in New Orleans in the 1940s and it portrays the life of Blanche Du Bois‚ the main character. The play follows Blanche’s life living with her sister‚ Stella Kowalski‚ and Stella’s husband‚ Stanley. Blanche is a delusional and flirtatious liar who lies to everyone about almost every aspect of the life‚ especially her past and her age. She was born into an upper class southern family in the South‚ but due to her somewhat traumatizing past‚ Blanche moved to New Orleans with her sister to escape and start
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understand them and their actions. The nuances of speech set the characters in their class context and show the differences of social status and education as well as of character. In A Streetcar Named Desire the very marked differences between Stanley and Blanche are stressed by Stanley’s non-grammatical‚ coarse‚ often slangy speech as against Blanche’s high-flown rhetoric which often rings false (as it is meant
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the 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams‚ there is an on going battle of rivalry between Stanley and Blanche‚ resulting to Blanche retreating into a world of illusions in order to protect herself. The two come from completely different societal worlds and have contrasting personalities‚ Stanley being powerful‚ controlling and strong and Blanche‚ being fragile‚ weak and vulnerable. Despite their hatred for each other and their differences they have many similar traits‚ including
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sweet and fragile Blanche opposed to the cruel and savage Stanley. The play also highlights other dichotomies such as strong and delicate‚ hidden and open‚ and purity and filth. Basically‚ Tennessee Williams uses dichotomies to show main points of theme‚ and Tennessee Williams also use dichotomies to show that viewing life in clear cut options with no grey area is a cause of many problems. One of the main of the themes shown
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The plot of A Streetcar Named Desire is driven by dueling personalities of Blanche and Stanley. The source of their animosity toward each other comes from many sources. These sources include instances where Stanley assumes Blanche sold Belle Reve‚ Blanche asks Stanley to compliment her‚ and when Stanley attacks Stella. The first source of Stanley and Blanche’s animosity toward each other is when Stanley assumes Blanche sold Belle Reve. Stanley questions Stella‚ “she didn’t show you no papers‚ no
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The moment that Blanche and Stanley meet‚ a fire has begun. In the novel‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ the main character‚ Stella’s‚ husband and sister do not get along. Blanche comes to New Orleans‚ Louisiana to visit her sister Stella. Blanche is in for a surprise when she meets Stella’s husband Stanley. From the moment the two meet‚ there is a bad feeling. A Streetcar Named Desire’s author is Tennessee Williams‚ who is from Columbia‚ Mississippi. Blanche and Stanley’s relationship is like an untamed
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is married to Stella. Stella is Blanche’s younger sister. Blanche is the object of Stanley’s Id and the spark of Stella’s ego. Stella is the “middle man” or more of the “Ego” of the story. Stella plays both sides throughout the play. Pleasing both her husband and sister takes a dramatic toll on her. Stella possesses a substantial percentage of Ego. Blanche brings that out of her numerous times as the play unfolds. In scene three where Blanche is in the shower and Stanley is going through her things
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