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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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    to live with‚ we try to diverge and create a new route of illusion or fantasy to escape. However when reality comes knocking at our door we start to retreat further into this illusion or fantasy in order to preserve ourselves. In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams‚ the subject of how the role of self-perception plays when individual try to reconcile the conflict between illusion and reality is illustrated by the character named Blanche Dubois. Blanche Dubois acts out a fake

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    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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    Is the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” a tragedy for Blanche or Stella? Aristotle stated “the structure of the best tragedy should…be… complex” representing” incidents arousing pity and fear “. It’s understood that the focus of tragedy is human suffering and a tragedy must be accessible to audiences‚ creating a shared catharsis. Although Aristotle refers to classical tragedies‚ a domestic tragedy like “A Streetcar Named Desire” ensures a greater understanding as it is realistic. Blanche‚ as the

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    literature that support this quote. The first work of literature that supports this quote is a play by Tennessee Williams “ A Streetcar Named Desire” and another play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare tells about the characters about how they do many things without thinking and then they just don’t want to face the situation. The play “ A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams confirms that the quote is related to the play. In this play‚ it shows a story of two sisters. One of the

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    Drama Unit Socratic Seminar Questions Part 1: A Streetcar Named Desire 1. Blanche who is homeless‚ comes to her sister’s house at the beginning. Blanche had been a schoolteacher‚ married Allan‚ a man she later discovered to be gay. Her reactions to his sexual orientation caused him to commit suicide. Lonely‚ she becomes a prostitute‚ who loses her teaching career when her sexual relationship with a teenager is found out. After the family plantation Belle Reve is lost‚ she turns to her little sister

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    A Streetcar Named Desire January 28‚ 2008 The relationships in A Streetcar Named Desire are interesting. We have the relationship between Stella and Blanche‚ the relationship between Stella and Stanley‚ the relationship between Blanche and Stanley‚ and the aspiring relationship between Mitch and Blanche. I think that it is from these relationships‚ and the dialogues between these people that we get to know what kind of people they are‚ and how they are alike or different. From Stella

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    This reveals Blanche’s ignorance about Stanley and his heritage and reveals her as uninformed. Stanley represents the new American workforce as Blanche represents the ways of old‚ and therefore she’s no longer relevant to the rapidly changing America. It’s important because Stanley is one of the few to stand up to Blanche and rebuke her harsh words. It’s meaningful because America is a land of immigrants and it does no good to be ignorant of the values that built our

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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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    The Importance of being earnest Themes Themes are the fundamental and often universal ideas explored in a literary work. The Nature of Marriage Marriage is of paramount importance in The Importance of Being Earnest‚ both as a primary force motivating the plot and as a subject for philosophical speculation and debate. The question of the nature of marriage appears for the first time in the opening dialogue between Algernon and his butler‚ Lane‚ and from this point on the subject never disappears

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