The Character of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche‚ Stella’s is by far the most complex character of the play. An intelligent and sensitive woman who values literature and the creativity of the human imagination‚ she is also emotionally traumatised and repressed. This gives license for her own imagination to become a haven for her pain. One senses that Blanches own view of her real self as opposed to her ideal self has been increasingly blurred over the years until
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Bertha As The Feminist Heroine of Jane Eyre Jane Eyre‚ written in 1847 by Charlotte Bronte‚ chronicles the journey of the title character as she faces hardships and adversity along her journey into adulthood. Orphaned as a young child and given up by her caregiver and Aunt‚ Jane perseveres and appears to have found happiness when she becomes engaged to her employer‚ Edward Rochester. A critical moment in the novel occurs when Jane comes to the shocking realization that her fiancé already has
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pulled you down off them columns and how you loved it‚ having them colored lights going! And wasn’t we happy together‚ wasn’t it all okay till she showed here?” (scene 8 page 112) Similarly with Blanche‚ the lights represent the passion of their sexual bond. The “lights” continued to shine brightly until Blanche comes with her lies‚ deception and paper lantern which diminish the brightness of the
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Analysis of Major Characters Blanche DuBois When the play begins‚ Blanche is already a fallen woman in society’s eyes. Her family fortune and estate are gone‚ she lost her young husband to suicide years earlier‚ and she is a social pariah due to her indiscrete sexual behavior. She also has a bad drinking problem‚ which she covers up poorly. Behind her veneer of social snobbery and sexual propriety‚ Blanche is an insecure‚ dislocated individual. She is an aging Southern belle who lives in a state
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SBlanche’s Madness Blanche DuBois in Tennesse William’s A Streetcar Named Desire suffers from living in a culture dominated by men‚ the human condition of desire and the insecurity and madness that follow; sexuality and her self-pressure to maintain self worth are the source of her cast off from society. The madness is launched when she loses her money‚ family‚ husband‚ job‚ and continues to lose her youthful appearance. Blanche’s insanity can be deemed acceptable from the surface because of her
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is sick. Stella and Blanche return from the show‚ and Blanche is introduced to the other players. When Stanley tells the ladies to disappear until the game is finished‚ Stella reminds him that it is 2:30 A.M. and time to quit. Stanley swats her rear and the sisters go into the other room‚ where Blanche meets Harold Mitchell coming from the bathroom. When he leaves‚ Blanche thinks that he looks more sensitive than the others and is told that Mitch’s mother is very sick. Blanche begins to undress until
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Speaker & Page: Blanche (Scene 1‚ bottom of 21) Quotation: “I‚ I‚ I took the blows in my face and my body! All of those deaths! The parade to graveyard! Father‚ mother! Margaret‚ that dreadful way!” Significance: Blanch was blaming Stella for abandoning her back at the plantation home. While Stella thinks that Blanche is overreacting‚ Blanche is trying to express her true feelings of agony to Stella and how these events have affected her life for the worse. Quote #2 Speaker & Page: Blanche (Scene 4‚
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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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good reason to come into conflict. The South‚ old and new‚ is an important theme of the play. Blanche and her sister come from a dying world. The life and pretensions of their world are becoming a thing of memory: to drive home the point‚ the family mansion is called "Belle Reve‚" or Beautiful Dream. The old life may have been something beautiful‚ but it is gone forever. Yet Blanche clings to pretensions of aristocracy. She is now as poor as Stanley and Stella‚ but she cannot help
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chooses to depict the downfall of Blanche through her desire to evade loneliness. Throughout the text‚ Blanche faces loneliness‚ yet she cannot fill her desire. After the loss of her family estate referred to as‚ Belle Reve‚ is officially rendered without family. Having lost her wealth and all her family‚ she develops the inability to be honest with anyone interested in her. Blanches true desire to evade loneliness causes her downfall. The story develops when Blanche loses Belle Reve. She had been
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