Tennessee Williams did a fine job of centering his play bill A Streetcar Named Desire‚ on the protagonist‚ Blanche DuBois. With that stated‚ and to answer the loaded question of who portrayed the most intriguing character from scenes 1-3‚ most assuredly‚ Blanche DuBois would have to be the only logical choice. Her introduction to the story sets the persona of her character. Through the vivid details of her wardrobe‚ in contrast to the setting of the story line and the over-dramatic‚ self-righteous
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Blanche DuBois shows up in the first scene wearing white‚ the image of virtue and blamelessness. She is seen as a moth-like animal. She is fragile‚ refined‚ and delicate. She is refined and keen. She can’t stand a disgusting comment or an indecent activity. She would never enthusiastically hurt somebody. She doesn’t need authenticity; she inclines toward enchantment. She doesn’t generally come clean‚ however she tells "what should be truth." Yet she has carried on with an existence that would make
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English 12H Blanche DuBois When the play begins‚ Blanche is a fallen woman in society’s eyes. Her family fortune and estate are gone she lost her young husband to suicide years earlier‚ and she is a social outcast due to her sexual behavior. She also has a bad drinking problem‚ which she doesn’t hide very well. Behind her facade of being high class‚ Blanche is an insecure individual who has been disowned by society. She is an aging Southern belle who lives in a state of panic about her fading
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they are women characters set in a 19th century time period. These two ladies are Nora Helmer from A Doll ’s House‚ and Mrs. Alving from "Ghosts." Ibsen ’s goals were to make the public aware of the discrimination against women and to question the morality of the middle class. Both of these protagonists have similarities as leading roles‚ but there are also quite a bit of differences in their characters. Both Helmer and Alving live in the middle class society level. They have (or in Alving ’s case
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84). The character of Blanche Dubois embodies the 1940s distressed female as she struggles with her environment. She is battling guilt‚ loneliness and financial insecurity when she arrives in Elysian Fields. Critics and audiences alike have mixed reactions to Blanche and her role as the tragic protagonist. In “The Space of Madness and Desire” Anne Fleche suggests Blanche is mad from the outset of the play. Others such as Leonard Berkman in “The Tragic Downfall of Blanche Dubois” argue that she symbolizes
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Streetcar Named Desire‚ the protagonist Blanche DuBois descends into madness. In the play‚ Blanche dislikes the light. She explains “I like the dark. The dark is comforting to me” (116). The light symbolizes the truth‚ and Blanche is trying to hide from it. She is desperately wanting to forget her past‚ so she hides in the dark. In addition to her attempts to hide from the light‚ Blanche has an unhealthy obsession with young men. A boy selling newspapers speaks to Blanche and she kisses him and tells him
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In the case of James Smith‚ a burglar that was found guilty of robbing his next door neighbor appealed his case to the Supreme Court based on the premise that his Fourteenth Amendment right to equal protection under the law was violated when evidence the defendant claimed was seized illegally but not excluded from the court process. The case started when the criminal defendant‚ Smith‚ burglarized his next door neighbor’s house. The neighbor being sure Smith was responsible for stealing his belongings
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Ashlynn Kufleitner AP Literature and Composition 21 May‚ 2014 Period 1 Undesirable: The Tragedy of Blanche Dubois “The tragedy of these women is the tragedy of the civilization which bore them‚ nourished them‚ and cast them out.” This quote by Robert Emmet Jones‚ an associate professor specializing in sociology‚ parallels with A Streetcar Named Desire‚ in which the decline of the southern aristocracy left women‚ who were little more than decorative beauties‚ at the mercy of the real world. Knowing
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Reality can be a horrible thing for some people; reality can say that you’re broke‚ that your old‚ that you are an undignified whore. Some of us try to deny reality and live in a fantasy world. We see a lot of this denial in Blanche DuBois‚ the protagonist in Tennessee William’s play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire. Blanche fabricates her whole identity‚ creating a self-image as a woman who has never known indignity; she denies her past as a prostitute. This is why I say that Blanche DuBois is the Queen
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stay home and fulfill domestic duties. Literature of this time embodies and mirrors social issues of women in society. Henrik Ibsen uses Nora Helmer in A Doll House to portray the negative treatment of all women throughout society during the nineteenth century. Many women characters throughout American literature reflect the same conflicts and attitudes of Nora in Ibsen ’s play A Doll House. <br> <br>The role of a woman was inferior to that of a man‚ especially in marriages. The main duties of a
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