With reference to at least two plays you have studied‚ explore how the playwrights’ use of contrasting characters contributes to the impact of the plays. Introduction Ferdinand and the Duchess The Duchess of Malfi is a woman of strong character and deep feeling. Capable of joy and affectionate teasing‚ she is also able to bear danger‚ grief‚ and terror with courage. Her brothers’ attempts to drive her mad fail‚ and her dignified nobility at her death transforms the character of her murderer. Ferdinand
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Stanley stands up and smacks his wife in her thigh. As hours and hours pass by‚ Stella says to Stanley and his friends “Drunk‚ Drunk‚ animal thing‚ you!” Then Stanley charges after Stella and smacks her again‚ but this time the pain made Stella cry. Blanche and Stella exited the house after this fiasco. Stella wants to be able to have some wife and husband time with Stanley‚ but all
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review of the radiologist report it stated had a unilateral duplex collecting system (Farley‚ 2015). The pathology occurred on the left side‚ where the patients left kidney was mildly enlarged measuring 14cm long (Farley‚ 2015). Both ureters were imaged leaving the kidney and disappeared after the level of L4 (Farley‚ 2015). At the level of L4‚ the ureters did not opacify with contrast (Farley‚ 2015). Dr. Farley stated that the right kidney was of normal size with a normal collecting system and no
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A Streetcar named Desire I can’t stand a naked light bulb‚ any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action. This line clearly sets up the key theme of illusion vs reality. Blanche takes the naked truth - the stark bare lightbulb‚ the rude remark - and dresses it up prettily to make everyone happier and everything easier. That she speaks of talk and action as analogous to a lightbulb shows that she considers the remedy for uncouth behavior and appearance to be a paper lantern‚ an external
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of her talent. Her older sister Blanche is overlooked because she was not as famous as Baby Jane. One night returning after a party‚ one of the sisters were drunk while going back home‚ one of the sister’s got out of the car to open the gate leading up to their house‚ the other sister attempted to run her over because of jealousy and that actually led to Blanche ending up being paralyzed. Because of that‚ Jane ended up getting stuck taking care of her sister Blanche. Overall the play was fantastic
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Blanche casts a façade of the American Dream‚ which she has not earned‚ which eventually dissolves the relationships she has. Stanley represents the American Dream by which all men are born equal and can succeed equally‚ and as referenced by Stanley‚ the Napoleonic code re-enforces this idea‚ “We have the Napoleonic code according to which belongs to the wife belongs to the husband and vice versa.” In turn‚ Blanche represents the old world‚ where class and
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destruction at the hands of her "executioner‚" Stanley. The play’s violence‚ its baroque images of decadence and lawlessness‚ promise its audience the thrilling destruction of the aristocratic Southern Poe-esque moth-like neuraesthenic female "Blanche" by the ape-like brutish male from the American melting-pot. The play is full in fact
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In Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ both American playwrights utilize stage directions as well as their character’s interactions within the narrative to provide a setting. The social environment‚ transitions between act or scene location and atmosphere from the settings staging directions reveal the different lifestyles in New England and the post-WWII New and Old South of America. Both plays involve characters originating outside of the main setting
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living by herself. She is so shy that she dropped out school and she now spends her days taking care of a glass menagerie. In A Streetcar named Desire‚ Blanche is alone in her world of fantasy. At the beginning of the play‚ she tells to Stella: “I want to be near you‚ got to be with somebody‚ I can’t be alone!” (A Streetcar named Desire‚ Scene One). Blanche craves for company is also obvious in her relationship with Mitch. The two of them find in each other the companionship they were looking
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Though Blanche‚ from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë‚ thinks that opposites attract and thus that she will marry Rochester‚ Brontë has different ideas about foils. Near the end of the novel Jane marries Rochester effectively quieting Blanche’s ideas. However‚ Brontë does use foils in the novel for a different reason. She uses characters will opposite personalities to reveal more about them‚ and to keep the reader from overlooking many of the major characters’ traits. For instance‚ without Blanche‚ who
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