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    brought Southern Gothic style to popularity. He conveyed realistic‚ broken characters to his audience‚ drawing inspiration to his own family. In 1947 A Streetcar Named Desire first appeared on the Broadway stage. In 1948 it had brought fame to Marlon Brando and won Williams a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Within the drama‚ themes of beauty‚ desire‚ manipulation‚ and social class draw empathy for the manipulative Blanche. Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26‚ 1911‚ one of three

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    will be discussed here. Tennessee Williams was a Modernist writer‚ most of his notable works being between 1940 and 1950. It is difficult to fully understand his works. Shirley Galloway’s analysis of characters in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is flawed and one-dimensional‚ and illustrates this difficulty. To understand Williams‚ one must first understand his life. His first place of employment was his father’s shoe factory. However‚ this was not to be his career. His mother encouraged

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    Drama Unit Socratic Seminar Questions Part 1: A Streetcar Named Desire 1. Blanche who is homeless‚ comes to her sister’s house at the beginning. Blanche had been a schoolteacher‚ married Allan‚ a man she later discovered to be gay. Her reactions to his sexual orientation caused him to commit suicide. Lonely‚ she becomes a prostitute‚ who loses her teaching career when her sexual relationship with a teenager is found out. After the family plantation Belle Reve is lost‚ she turns to her little sister

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    her gender or that she is a southern belle who is seen to be old fashioned in modern America and is victimized in her surroundings “Her appearance is incongruous to this setting”. The two characters are interconnected by their mutual loneliness and desire to be with someone to deflect their previously suffered emotional damage; “The girl’s dead now”. Though they both have similar experiences in life they deal with it with different attitudes. Blanche has to adapt herself to suit the environment in

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    My friends forsake me like a memory lost…” Compare the ways in which isolation or alienation from society are presented in any two of the texts you have studied. We witness cases of alienation in the texts The Scarlet Letter and A Streetcar Named Desire‚ which are presented mainly in the female protagonists Hester Prynne and Blanche DuBois. However‚ although both characters experience isolation from their respective societies‚ it is my contention that the causes for their isolation are different

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    In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and the play "The Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams‚ the relationships between the protagonists deteriorate over the course of time due to the society’s viewpoint on the troubled protagonist. George’s perspective of Lenny changes in a negative sense as does Stella’s outlook of Blanche. What starts out as friends or sisters‚ slowly turns into the destruction of the relationships and the abandonment of Lenny or Blanche. Lenny and Blanche are

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    family from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and The Dubois-Kowalski family from Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire both demonstrate that it is imperative for a family to have peace or otherwise a family would face the danger of tragedy. The Crucible imparts the significance of peace in the domestic setting through the moving tragedy of the Proctor family. In this play‚ the theme of desire is the catalyst for the family’s tragedy. Abigail Williams‚ a beautiful young girl‚ becomes sexually involved

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    In my literary analysis of “A Streetcar Named Desire‚” by Tennessee Williams‚ I narrowed the focus of my essay by finding a theme that is evident throughout the play. In order to do this‚ I reread the essay and reviewed my annotations. Once I discovered the symbolic theme of light versus dark‚ I highlighted every line that included it. Finally I looked at all of the quotes to see the bigger picture of how they are related‚ and wrote a working thesis based on my findings. I found that most of the

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    In Tennessee William’s play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ binary oppositions of light and darkness‚ or fantasy and reality‚ reveal the roles they play in the major characters and how these binaries cannot come together. The motif of light illuminates Blanche’s loss of innocence‚ while darkness hides her insecurities and shadows her fear of reality. Blanche fears light because of the loss she experienced as a teenager; since she has always avoided strong light and stuck to the shadows and darkness

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    How is the character of Blanche presented in Scenes 1 and 2 in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’? In ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’‚ Tennessee Williams presents Blanche DuBois as an extremely multifaceted character who represents both old and idealist values in America. Appearances are deceiving‚ and this is clearly shown through the character of Blanche in the play‚ as she puts on a smug and arrogant front to conceal her fragile personality. To ‘blanche’ something is to ‘drain it of colour’ and thus the image

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