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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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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know‚ 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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A Streetcar Named Desire Analysis Essay Outline I. Topic P A. Williams uses the complex imagery of light to reveal that‚ ultimately‚ Blanche’s attempt to hide her flaws in the dark caused her undermining. To Blanche‚ light serves as a cruel agent used to expose and to hurt‚ while the dark shields. Her destruction‚ like the painful experience of entering sudden and searing brightness after being in a pitch-black room for a long period of time‚ was a result of always shrouding the truth. However
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Throughout A Streetcar Named Desire‚ Blanche’s personality and motives are expressed indirectly through her dialogue with other characters. When speaking to Eunice‚ Blanche hints at her history by saying that “they told [her] to take a street-car named Desire‚ and transfer to one called Cemeteries‚ and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!” The fact that the street-car is named desire suggests that Blanche’s motives in her past were ruled by sexual desire. This sexual desire took her to
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this‚ he has committed treason against his country. He hopes that his country‚ his other dearest love‚ will pardon him because he loves both his country and his love interest. | LITERARY DEVICES 1. PERSONIFICATION * Lines 4‚ 6-7: The love interest’s eyes constantly accuses and convicts the persona. This device highlights the extent to which the persona has hurt this person. * Lines 18-20: The persona hopes that his country‚ his other dearest love‚ will forgive him for the treasonous act
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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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Within the play Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams‚ the lives and relationship of Blanche DuBois and Stella Kowalski are plotted out in a scene of events that depicts astute betrayal and out of the ordinary family matters. Based on the time period of this play‚ that being of the Old South conservative dominated region of New Orleans with local and national aristocracy still in heavy play‚ the traditions play out in a way that involve a simple family dispute turning in to Blanche
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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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One of the things that makes Shakespeare’s writing so famous is all of the literary devices he adds in. One of the many devices found is found Act 2 scene 2. At this point in the play‚ Macbeth has just killed King Duncan and is talking to his wife‚ Lady Macbeth about it. Macbeth is very paranoid and freaking out because he suddenly hears a strange knocking‚ but his hands are still covered in blood. This is where a hyperbole comes in and Macbeth says “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
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