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    3.2.2 Blanche----A Fragile and hypocrisy Southern Belle Blanche is a controversial figure throughout the play‚ on one hand‚ brought up and educated in Southern culture‚ she has been used to embracing a certain order of custom and certain culture rules. She represents fantasy for her many outrageous attempts to elude herself‚ and she likewise represents the old South with only her manners and pretensions remaining after the foreclosure of her family plantation--Belle Reve. In the south‚ the lack

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    summertime‚ and the heat is oppressive. Blanche Dubois‚ Stella’s older sister‚ arrives abruptly‚ sporting all that she owns. Blanche and Stella have a heat reunion‚ however‚ Blanche has some bad information; Belle Reve‚ the own family mansion‚ has been lost. Blanche stayed in the back of to take care of their death family whilst

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    depended on the kindness of strangers.’ Blanche’s last words of the play are a direct and most effective appeal for the audience’s sympathy and pity. To what extent do you feel that the character of Blanche DuBois can be viewed as a tragic victim. Word count = 1‚500 By Georgia Tucker Blanche Dubois‚ The leading role in Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire is often viewed as a tragic victim - This is a woman who doesn’t want realism‚ She wants magic‚ but even despite the way she lives

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    A Street Car Named Desire

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    The title A Streetcar Named Desire holds both literal and figurative meaning. Blanche DuBois takes an actual streetcar named “Desire” to transport her to the home of her sister. Blanche is literally brought to the home of the Kowalski’s by “Desire‚” but she is also brought there by her very own desire. Blanche’s sexual intimacies held with many men has ruined her reputation and driven her out of her home town. Blanche is longing and wishing to start her life over in the town of Elysian Fields with

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    is due to this reason that Blanche Dubois‚ Stella Kowalski‚ and Eunice Hubbell‚ all exhibit low self esteem‚ depending on male companions for happiness. Blanche Dubois wanted to be perceived as a woman of elegance. In addition to frequently bathing‚ she wore the finest clothing‚ perfumes and jewelry. Readers later find out that this is done for male attention. Blanche was aging and desperately wanted to find a husband. Already shamed in her hometown of Laurel‚ Blanche moved to Louisiana with her

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    Ashlynn Kufleitner AP Literature and Composition 21 May‚ 2014 Period 1 Undesirable: The Tragedy of Blanche Dubois “The tragedy of these women is the tragedy of the civilization which bore them‚ nourished them‚ and cast them out.” This quote by Robert Emmet Jones‚ an associate professor specializing in sociology‚ parallels with A Streetcar Named Desire‚ in which the decline of the southern aristocracy left women‚ who were little more than decorative beauties‚ at the mercy of the real world. Knowing

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    The play A Streetcar Named Desire revolves around Blanche DuBois; therefore‚ the main theme of the drama concerns her directly. In Blanche is seen the tragedy of an individual caught between two worlds-the world of the past and the world of the present-unwilling to let go of the past and unable‚ because of her character‚ to come to any sort of terms with the present. The final result is her destruction. This process began long before her clash with Stanley Kowalski. It started with the death of her

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    his initial hiring‚ while “A Street Car Named Desire” is about a newly married couple‚ Stanley and Stella Kowalski‚ in New Orleans that have lives interrupted by Stella’s sister‚ Blanche DuBois. However‚ both texts share a similar theme‚ the struggle to gain power. Bartleby‚ the narrator (Bartleby’s boss)‚ Blanche DuBois‚ and Stanley Kowalski in particular fight for power throughout both texts. One commonality in both texts is that they have somewhat normal beginnings. Bartleby appears to be a good

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    speech of drama…the purest language of plays." Once‚ quoted as having said this‚ Tennessee Williams has certainly used symbolism and colour extremely effectively in his play‚ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’. A moving story about fading Southern belle Blanche DuBois and her lapse into insanity‚ ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ contains much symbolism and clever use of colour. This helps the audience to link certain scenes and events to the themes and issues that Williams presents within the play‚ such as desire

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    that of human sexuality. Various aspects of human sexuality are explored through the diversity and complexity of the characters. Whilst Stanley Kowalski epitomises masculinity through his primal strength and power‚ and the increasingly fragile Blanche DuBois attempts to cling to the feminine role of the Southern Belle‚ these are only aspects of their characters. The fact that their relationship is one of conflict‚ is representative of their worldviews. However‚ to reduce A Streetcar Named Desire to

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