is an artistic demonstration of T.S. Eliot’s observation. In Streetcar‚ Blanche‚ a woman in crisis‚ visits her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley in New Orleans. Blanche is from an upper-class background but has fallen on hard times‚ both economically and emotionally. Stanley is from a lower-class background with a cruel streak a mile wide. What ensues is a conflict of epic proportions between Stanley and Blanche‚ with Stella torn between the two. Each character operates within his or
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are introduced to a character named Blanche DuBois. In the plot‚ Blanche is Stella’s younger sister who has come to visit Stella and her husband Stanley in New Orleans. After their first meeting Stanley develops a strong dislike for Blanche and everything associated with her. Among the things Stanley dislikes about Blanche are her "spoiled-girl" manners and her indirect and quizzical way of conversing. Stanley also believes that Blanche has conned him and his wife out of the
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Desire partially explores the deep conflict within the relationship of Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois. And in doing so‚ Williams has crafted a play that reflects upon the context of the time‚ using these two characters to express the clashing values of the traditional old world and the rough‚ aggressive new world. Set in New Orleans immediately following World War II‚ Tennessee Williams infuses Blanche and Stanley with the symbols of opposing class and differing attitudes towards sex and love
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immigrant‚ the fallout of chivalry to a new mind-set of sex and desire‚ and a woman grasping desperately at the last bit of fantasy she can muster. The structure of A Streetcar Named Desire is best seen through a series of confrontations between Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. In the first scene the confrontation is not so severe‚ but it increases in severity until one of the two must be destroyed. To understand fully the scenes of confrontations‚ the reader should have a good understanding
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acceptances of reality among the characters. The motif of light is incorporated from the very beginning. In Scene 1 when Blanche first arrives at Stella’s home‚ Blanche requests that Stella “turn that over-light off” for she “won’t be looked at in this merciless glare!” Before Stella even has the chance to greet her sister‚ whom she has not seen for a long period of time‚ Blanche turns on the defensive. Blanche’s immediate request to turn out the light signifies her efforts to hide from the truth.
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conflict between the sensitive‚ neurotic Blanche DuBois and the crude‚ animalistic Stanley Kowalski. <br><br>Blanche visits the home of her sister‚ Stella‚ in New Orleans and that is when Stanley started picking at her‚ almost testing her. Before she had met Stanley‚ she told her sister of how their plantation had been lost due to the costs of paying for the funerals of many family members. There was not enough money for her to keep the plantation. While Blanche bathed after her arrival‚ Stanley came
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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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socio-economic standing. She compares her own relationship with Rochester and Blanche’s relationship to him as well: “The longer I considered the position‚ education‚ &c.‚ of the parties‚ the less I felt justified in judging and blaming either him or Miss Ingram for acting in conformity to ideas and principles instilled into them‚ doubtless‚ from their childhood. All their class held these principles; I supposed‚ then‚ they had reasons for holding them‚ such as I could not fathom.” (Brontë‚ 160) Jane at
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is a play that depicts the tragedy of Blanche Dubois‚ a daughter of the wealthy landowner in the South. As a result of the fall of the family‚ her life starts to collapse by struggling between ideal and reality. Having experinenced the terrible reality; her husband’s homosexuality and suicide‚ Blanche feels the distance between her dream life and her relentless reality‚ but she becomes more obseessed with the past‚ and doesn’t aceept the reality For me‚ Blanche Dubois was the most sympathetic and
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Williams Class notes from Weds Feb 29th (Scenes 4-10). You were asked how particular extracts could be used to answer essay questions. Scene Four Blanche and Stella discuss the events of the night before. Discuss the view that the tragedy in Streetcar stems from the conflict of two opposing worlds * Conflict is presented through language: Blanche describes Stanley’s feelings for Stella as ‘brutal desire’ (oxymoron). * In Blanche’s longer speech‚ she presents Stanley as an animal “like
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