plays a big role in the play‚ both as mood setter and characterization. The Varsouviana polka is used by Tennessee Williams to highlight the themes of death. This music is specifically shown in Blanche as a character‚ meaning that when we hear the polka‚ we hear what is inside her mind. For example‚ when Blanche tells Mitch about Allan‚ his secret and his death. This action brings up sad memories of what happened to her husband‚ and feels emotionally threatened by them while telling Mitch her secret
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the house." Amanda and Laura do not work‚ so they depend on Tom to supply money for bills. In A Streetcar Named Desire‚ the women depend on the men again. Stella does not work and so she depends on Stanley to bring in money and for satisfaction. Blanche has depended on men all her life‚ especially after her husband died. She says that she has "always depended on the kindness of strangers." Both plays also deal with the theme of loneliness. Amanda is lonely without her Blue Mountain and 17 gentlemen
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special place near and dear to the hearts of the children who grew up there‚ Blanche DuBois and Stella Kowalski. In the country‚ the home sheltered the girls and their white family for years‚ but became too much for the dwindling family to bear. Williams’s play "A Streetcar Named Desire" takes place in the city of New Orleans‚ where Stella has created a new life for herself‚ away from the past and Belle Reve. When her sister Blanche comes to stay with her for a while‚ she carries along with her the news
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fate and luck play in existence primarily in images of gaming.”(70) Quirino justifies this idea by using the example of a scene from The Poker Night‚ in which the cards can be seen as a metaphor of Blanche DuBois’s history‚ with Stanley Kowalski‚ "the powerful master of Elysian Fields against Blanche DuBois‚" (62) as the winner and the master of the poker game‚ who "chaps his winnings by raping her."(62) As Blanche’s presence rattles Stanley’s world‚ he “systematically allays his own fears at the expense
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protagonist Blanche DuBois. Haunted by the fact that she incited the suicide of her young husband‚ Blanche is unable to cope with what has since become of her life. She relies on fables and illusions to reconstruct a more socially acceptable self. However‚ the antagonistic relationship between Blanche and Stanley Kowalski threatens her fantasy‚ as he continuously confronts her with reality and threatens to shatter the illusions others have about her. Stanley represents complete realism and Blanche is fantastical
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understand that our friends are who shape us in a way. Our family relationships have a very big impact on our identity because we grow up with them. In the play the characteristics of each character was very much affected by their families. Blanche Dubois’ identity for example was shaped in a particular way because of her major losses in life. Her family fortune and estate we gone and she lost her young husband to suicide. This has led to her to have insecurities and making her a disrupted individual
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there is Blanche Dubois; her young‚ frail sister who is the only part of her past that she has left. Stella made the choice in the end of the play to put Blanche into psychiatric care‚ but stay with Stanley even though he betrayed her and Blanche. Throughout the play‚ Stella acts as a barrier between her husband and her sister‚ who both constantly put her in a position to choose one or the other. Stella’s struggle with her sister is introduced right away in scene
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progresses. At the beginning of the play when Stanley was first introduced‚ he showed his first‚ more subtle animalistic style. After coming home from work‚ Stanley’s sister-in- law‚ Blanche DuBois‚ had arrived to his house from Mississippi. His wife‚ Stella Kowalski‚ acquainted them and then Stanley asks Blanche is she minded if he were to take of his shirt‚ “My clothes’re stickin’ to me…can I make myself comfortable?” (Page 30). This is a primitive example because people do not usually take
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Ostracised and essentially exiled from her hometown of Laurel‚ Mississippi‚ Blanche retreats to the only place she has left to go: her sister Stella’s two-room apartment in New Orleans’ French quarter. When she strikes up a relationship with Mitch‚ Stanley investigates her past to find information that would drive a wedge between
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uncertainties. Blanche is known as a pathological liar who lives in the past and gives into desire. Based on her inability to control her desires‚ Blanche is to blame. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams describes Blanche Dubois as a neurotic central character who lives in a fantasy world of old south chivalry but cannot control her desires. Although Blanche is to blame for herown demise‚ society did play a role in the person she became. The story is about the fading and desperate Blanche DuBois
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