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    A Streetcar Named Desire is written by Tennessee Williams‚ and later filmed by Elia Kazan as director in 1951. The play depicts a story of Blanche Dubois‚ who is exiled from her hometown and go to her sister Stella for shelter‚ loses her mind due to her inappropriate and flirtatious behavior and intense desires of love‚ beauty and youth. In order to present such human tragedy on the movie screen‚ director of the film‚ Elia Kazan‚ make elaborate and meticulous choices‚ arrangement and organization

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    Use of Astrology and Names in SND The author’s use of Blanche and Stanley’s astrological signs and the meanings of their names helps to define their characters in “Streetcar Named Desire”. Stanley’s astrological sign is Capricorn which is the sign of the goat. Blanche’s sign is Virgo‚ the sign of the virgin. Appropriately‚ both signs are sex symbols. Virgo is the only zodiacal sign represented by a female. Virgo implies and stands for virginity. Sometimes thought of as an older woman

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    How does Williams quickly establish Stanley as the plays antagonist? Firstly if we are to establish Stanley as the plays antagonist then we need to begin by looking at the protagonist of the play. Blanche Dubois is the protagonist and as the play develops we can begin to see that Stanley develops in to the antagonist. The two characters are the polar opposite of one another‚ Blanche is described as beautiful and moth like which allows us to see that she is very delicate and by the name ‘Blanche’

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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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    exactly what does too much sunlight exposure result in a burn? In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ Blanche uses light to represent her own identity‚ shrouding it in lanterns and exposing it at times. She also uses it specifically in situations involving romance. Blanche’s use of light in instances with her husband Allan‚ the “boy‚” as well as instances of how she responds to light now in her current life‚ implies how her husband made her too light sensitive – unwilling to be honest and

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    Janith Thanthulage  Explore how the themes of desire is presented in “A Streetcar named desire” and “Goblin Market” Desire‚ the need to have something so much as to lust for it‚ seems to play a key part in the decisions of all characters seen in both these plays. T​ he power of sexual desire is the engine propelling ​ A Streetcar Named Desire (AD)​ . All of the characters are driven by “that rattle-trap street-car” in various ways: towards a set fate. ​ This is especially so with the leading protagonist

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    A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love‚ its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice "The Broken Tower" by Hart Crane SCENE ONE The exterior of a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs between the L & N tracks and the river. The section is poor but‚ unlike corresponding

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    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 with her

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    The Desire to Justify Cruelty When do we overlook malicious behavior? Is our emotional appeal to like a person enough for us to look past deliberate cruelty? Bound up in the play A Streetcar Named Desire is the fundamental question of how the characters are dialectically cruel and the ways they justify their desires. By means of a theme of cruelty when whiteness is evoked‚ author Tennessee Williams displays when we justify the actions of others to reinforce gender identities‚ and the emotions which

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    of ambitious young girls but so unfortunate of them‚ sitting in four walled quarters‚ unmarried sewing clothes for their marriages waiting for that particular sunrise and married serving their husbands till their eyes get close keeping all their desires‚ passion within besides dreams and hope‚ you too find fear in their visions‚ fear of raising the voice‚ fear of society which’s kept limitations on them‚ she’s viewed as a "femme" more than as a human‚ told to cover the face or wear veil when step

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