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    Discuss the various ways the confidant or confidante functions in one of the following works. In the play‚ A Streetcar named Desire‚ Tennessee Williams depicts a conflict through his main character‚ Blanche Dubois. Blanche has a problem in believing that she is in a fantasy world. In this play one of the confidants that she has is Mitch. She not only develops a sexual connection to him but an emotional connection as well. Throughout the play and in real life one thing that plays a major role

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    antagonism. An unending war of push and pull rages on between the extremes of all spectrums in existence. One such war is depicted throughout Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire in the form of an explosive relationship between the play’s lead‚ Blanche DuBois‚ and her brother-in-law‚ Stanley Kowalski. Given that the former is the physical embodiment of illusion and the latter of reality‚ an ever-present air of mutual disdain persists from their first interaction to their last. This resentment is

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    insanity of Blanche‚ all to show uniquely human qualities. To say that Stanley is an animalistic and primitive being‚ would be stating the obvious. Being married to the naïve Stella‚ his virility is even more apparent than it would be with just Stanley alone. By using these two vitally different human natures‚ Williams is able to dictate the inner conflict each person battles‚ the constant battle between their virtuousness and their desires‚ in a microscoped perspective. Blanche has her own sort

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    character that supports the goals of the protagonist‚ Blanche DuBois. However‚ in The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Lady Bracknell is the minor character that undermines the goals of the protagonist‚ Jack Worthing. In the Streetcar Named Desire‚ the protagonist‚ Blanche DuBois’ main goal is to make up her own illusionary world to escape the reality. “I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes‚ yes magic! I try to give that to people”. Since Blanche is so delusional and needs to escape the reality of her

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    Stanley Kowalski In “A Streetcar Named Desire” the clash of cultures between Stanley Kowalski and the two DuBois sisters‚ Stella and Blanche‚ becomes very noticeable in certain parts of the play. There is an evident contrast between the “Old” and the “New” America. Stanley is Polish and is part of the growing working class in 1950s USA‚ whereas Stella and Blanche have a history in the United States and belong to a more sophisticated class where most of what they own is inherited. Stanley Kowalski

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    regarding an aspect or theme of either "Othello" or "A Streetcar Named Desire". I have chosen to explore the character of Blanche by writing diary entries in which Blanche begins to be delusional due to Stanley’s actions towards her and how this makes her feel towards Stanley. Looking at both characters‚ we can see that both of them are opposites of each other. Blanche‚ coming from a wealthy family and also from the south‚ has a higher status and therefore expects men to treat women with respect

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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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    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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    middle  of  Blanche  and  Stanley’s  conflict‚  this  is  mainly  because  they  both  have  continuous  battles  over  who  gets  to  have  her  love  and  affection.  Stella  is  in  the  middle  of  this  territorial  battle‚  and  is  always presented in a situation  in where she has to defend either her husband or sister.    Williams  establishes  a  contrast between them. For example‚ when Stella  says‚  in Scene One‚  that  ’the  best  I  could  do  was  make  my  own  living‚  Blanche’‚  Williams 

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