I love Robert‚ yet I love myself more. My new life beckons me‚ and as I walk towards it‚ my uncertainties are being crushed under my feet. The soft sand of the shore dissolves my doubts and vulnerabilities. I want to be my own mistress and pet any desire that arouses in me. I intend to immerse myself in my passion for painting and colors. Just as I want to create engrossing pictures that exhibit an amalgamation of the striking spectrum of colors‚ I also want to paint my life in diverse and
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Paper in A Streetcar Named Desire 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. (allpoetry...) In this passage from the epigraph of the play‚ we see direct parallels between the poem (Hart Crane’s “The Broken Tower”) and A Streetcar Named Desire. It could be interpreted from Blanche’s perspective; where the “broken world” is her world of illusion in which
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Jo flipped the page over. June 21st: School. Mrs Hunt’s interpretation of A Streetcar named Desire. And then quotes from the play including Ash’s favourite: “I shall die of eating an unwashed grape one day out on the ocean.” The same quote was pasted on Ash’s noticeboard in her bedroom. A rant about her mother took up several pages – her voice and her rules and the way she told Ash off for spending money on clothes but then went out shopping most weekends and bought clothes for herself and how
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In this poem‚ the speaker emphasizes a clash between the enticing aroma of desire and the destruction that vain desire has brought down upon the speaker. He describes Desire’s “worthless woe” in an effort to help the reader get a sense for the intense feeling of contempt that the speaker has for Desire. The alliteration in this line helps to smooth out the delivery of the poem‚ creating a pattern that mirrors human speech. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABABBABABCCBCC‚ and the number of syllables
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By pretending to be someone she wasn’t and ignoring her feelings‚ Blanche creates a disconnection between her and Mitch. When Mitch finally discovers Blanche’s truths‚ he comes to talk to her with unkempt appearances‚ which Blanche considers “the unforgivable insult to a lady” (140). By Blanche finding Mitch’s appearance an “insult to a lady”‚ she tries to keep her façade up as well as defines herself as a lady. Prior to Mitch knowing the truth‚ he viewed Blanche as a lady and gave her respect. However
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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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When Blanche Ingram was young she was a very happy child‚ she had two loving parents and a beautiful baby sister as well as a small ragamuffin of a dog named yappers. When Blanche was seven her father and yappers were involved in a carriage raid and were mercilessly slaughtered by some bandits. Blanche was devastated. After the funeral many secrets of Mr. Ingrams finances were unveiled. Mr. Ingram was an avid gambler and loved the rush of watching a horse race down a track or watching two
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from New Orleans‚ and the statement itself is ironic. It’s ironic because the kind strangers were only kind in exchange for something. It fits into the plot because it reassures‚ for the last time‚ to the readers that Blanche has lost her grip on reality and sees her life as she wants to see it. It’s meaningful because it shows that although there are kind strangers‚ most of them have an ulterior motive in mind and to be careful to not forget
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between your illusion and reality? Our five golden senses give us the ability to identify reality‚ but the most degrading power of imagination guide us into understanding the greater mysteries of our illusion. The realm that we exist in is recognized through our understanding of what we see‚ hear‚ and identify by the five senses. In the moments in which our senses are latent‚ illusions are generated. Some Historians like Daniel Joseph Boostin believe that humans live their lives in an illusion. He states
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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
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