was named poet laureate of the year for his work in 2000 and 2001. Williams‚ a play write from Mississippi‚ lived from 1911 to 1983. Williams wrote many plays for Broadway and won a Pulitzer Prize. He was plagued with the secret of his homosexuality‚ which he expressed in some of his characters throughout his career. Despite the authors’ personal differences‚ both of their works expressed strong emotions. In Kunitz’s poem‚ After the Last Dynasty‚ and Williams’ play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ two
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Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof both have dysfunctional family relationships in them. In Streetcar‚ you could see these dysfunctional family relationships in a few different places. The first area that this issue was present was in the relationship between the sisters Blanche and Stella. The dysfunctionality is obvious when Blanche showed up and was oblivious of Stella’s marriage. There is also a dysfunctionality relationship displayed in Cat. In Cat‚ there are a multitude of examples
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In A Streetcar Named Desire‚ the varsouviana polka and blue piano music are used to depict the mood of the text/character and mostly of Blanche’s emotions and the events that are unfolding around her. On page 21 of Scene One‚ the quote‚ “The music of the ‘blue piano’ grows louder.” is mentioned after Stella realizes Bele Reve really is gone and Blanche confirms. The increase in volume shows the intensity which they feel‚ having to accept that Bele Reve is gone. To extend on the idea that an increase
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“Passion is both liberating and imprisoning” Compare and contrast ways on which two of your chosen writers present in the light of this comment. ‘Passion’ – A very strong emotion or a sexual desire? ‘Enduring Love’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ are both novels that show off different aspects on ‘passion’. The two authors portray ‘passion’ to be a key element in their relationships. However with ‘passion’ comes an emotional consequence‚ whether it being it making you feel ‘liberated’ or ‘imprisoned’
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Stella speaks calmly now]. His…baby doll? His… sweetheart? Am I‚ still? He hit me… why is he being so nice now? Is it- Is it my fault‚ maybe? Maybe I shouldn’t have let Blanche turn on the radio‚ maybe we shouldn’t have even been there. Maybe they’re right‚ and women shouldn’t be around when men play poker… No. No‚ I won’t let it be my fault. It is not my fault. Not mine nor Blanche’s‚ and definitely not this baby’s‚ so why should we suffer the consequences for his violent way of being? [Eunice’s and
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A Streetcar Named Desire Comprehension Scene 4 1) Stella tries to explain to Blanche her relationship with Stanley at the beginning of scene 4 and mentions that she was sort of thrilled’ by his violence. I think by this she means that she is quite taken in by Stanley’s display of animalistic behavior because it is so different from the type of environment in which she was brought up in. I believe that she tolerates all of Stanley’s behavior because for her it seems unique as she would never
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Enrique stays in the US because he wants to be with his mother and little sister.But the dilemma of that is‚ he has his girlfriend Maria Isabel and his daughter Jasmin back in Honduras.”She feels the same warmth and love from Enrique when he first arrived on her doorstep in North Carolina.He always wanted to be with me”(Nazario 235).Enrique wants to stay with his mother because he wanted to know if his mother still loved him‚ which she does love him very much.He always thought that his mother left
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Explore the similarities and differences in the presentation of female characters in A Streetcar Named Desire and ‘The World’s Wife The presentation of female characters plays a very significant role in both A Streetcar Named Desire and The World’s Wife and though these texts express similar ideas about women‚ there is also substantial differences. Tennessee Williams’ ASCND‚ tragic first produced in 1947‚ sets his female characters within the patriarchal society of post Second World War New
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really are because his or her society may not care at all. The authors Tennessee Williams and William Faulkner show‚ in their works‚ that sometimes the people with the greatest differences are the most insightful. This proves that the main characters of A Streetcar Named Desire and As I Lay Dying are very similar because they both experience tragedy and are affected by such. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire‚ by Tennessee Williams‚ one of the main characters‚
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On the surface‚ “Bartleby‚ the Scrivener” and “A Street Car Named Desire” are two literary works that have little in common. “Bartleby‚ the Scrivener” is about a Wall Street worker that gradually reduces the amount of work he does after his initial hiring‚ while “A Street Car Named Desire” is about a newly married couple‚ Stanley and Stella Kowalski‚ in New Orleans that have lives interrupted by Stella’s sister‚ Blanche DuBois. However‚ both texts share a similar theme‚ the struggle to gain power
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