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    the play‚ Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois. Right from the start‚ Blanche is already a fallen woman in society’s eyes. She is sufficiently self-aware to know that she cannot survive in the world as it is. Reality is too harsh‚ so she must create an illusion that will allow herself to maintain her delicate‚ fragile hold on life. Stanley‚ however‚ represents the new‚ diverse America to which Blanche doesn’t belong. He sees himself as a social leveller‚ and Blanche is a relic from a defunct social

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    relationship and Stanley and Blanche’s rape scene. Throughout the play the character of Blanche is flirtatious and she relies on the perception of herself as an object of male sexual desire as a way of operating in the world. Blanche’s interaction with any of the men in the play is always flirtatious‚ especially at the beginning when she meets them. Blanche’s language and actions in the play is always provocative. Blanche tells Stella that she and Stanley smoothed things

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    Farley 1 Paper Summary: Intellectual Space in Naguib Mahfouz’s Thartharah fawq al-Nīl Robert J. Farley Cited as a milestone of Naguib Mahfouz’s literary career in the Nobel Prize committee’s presentation speech‚ Thartharah fawq al-Nīl (hereafter referred to as Adrift on the Nile) has been described by esteemed scholar Roger Allen‚ “to depict the role and fate of the Egyptian cultural intelligentsia during the 1960s” (107). After all‚ it is a story of the nightly gathering of the educated Cairenes—a

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    will which is also limited by social structure example institutions‚ laws Functionalist Theory and consensus: The functionalist school is linked with sociologists such as Talcott Parsons‚ Kingsley Davis‚ Wilbert Moore‚ and Emile Durkheim (see Farley‚ 2000:72). 1. Durkheim: Durkheim ’s (1964) early paradigm of social stratification‚ which likened society to an organism with its need for order and organic solidarity‚ was important in shaping functional explanations. Inequalities were attributed

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    Orwell wrote the novel shortly after the end of the Second World War. Many aspects of the novel such as inaccurate propaganda and the bombs dropped on the Proles were experience by Orwell himself in London. It could be said that Stanley’s rape of Blanche leads to her inevitable demise. However a number of events have taken place in her life contributing towards her break down‚ for example the death of her husband who she loved‚ the loss of her family and the loss of her house and career. The central

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    in the present and taint what will occur in their futures. Mary Tyrone and Blanche are both complicated women whose past affect their present and in return‚ affects the chances of achieving their goals in the future. Based on the women’s actions in the present‚ the characters of each play are much too influenced by the past to alter their current predicaments and by virtue‚ save their future. The character of Blanche in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ suffers greatly due to two major

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    dysfunctional family relationships in them. In Streetcar‚ you could see these dysfunctional family relationships in a few different places. The first area that this issue was present was in the relationship between the sisters Blanche and Stella. The dysfunctionality is obvious when Blanche showed up and was oblivious of Stella’s marriage. There is also a dysfunctionality relationship displayed in Cat. In Cat‚ there are a multitude of examples that show the dysfunctional family including Brick‚ Gooper‚ Big

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    Pyatetsky 10/28/2013 A Street Car Named Desire The play “A Street Car Named Desire” is seen as a modern tragedy. This play uses Aristotle’s six parts of what makes a perfect drama. It is a story of a seemingly upper-class woman named Blanche‚ who left her hometown and lavish lifestyle to live with her younger sister and her husband in New Orleans‚ which at the time was a lower class neighborhood‚ until she got her life back together‚ but what she doesn’t know is that moving in with her

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    The evidence of masculinity in scene three is shown through dialogue‚ stage direction and description of the surroundings. The introduction to the dramatic purpose of the poker party demonstrates Stanley’s domination over his friends through the way in which he makes all the decisions about the game. He also shows domination over his wife by hitting her during an argument. <br> <br>Scene three opens with a description of surroundings during a poker night. The description of the poker night immediately

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    language that broadcasts the character’s true feelings and intentions at any given moment. Blanche DuBois is no different in this respect to the extent that her actions speak more for her than she does verbally‚ considering her being a very talkative person. In the first Scene Blanche arrives at Elysian Fields to visit her Sister Stella‚ here the first sign of non-verbal behaviour can be observed. Blanche gives Eunice‚ the co-owner of Stella’s house and up-stair neighbour‚ a peculiar look as she

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