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    explaining a person’s personality‚ characterization is frequently happening. Yet‚ representation of an individual does not only take place in the real world‚ it appears in numerous literary works as well. For example‚ in the written matters of A Streetcar Named Desire‚ A Separate Peace‚ and “Everyday Use”‚ where character interactions‚ such as arguing and having conflicting beliefs‚ bring out strong depictions and central messages. While some readers of these pieces of literature may believe that character

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    In Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire‚ there is a constant battle between fantasy and reality. Blanche represents the desire to escape reality and her adversary‚ Stanley‚ represents the harsh reality of life. The battle between these two forces is revealed to the audience through the symbolic use of light and darkness in the play. Blanche is so traumatized and burdened by the reality of her life that her only way to cope is to retreat into a fantasy world. She comes to stay with her sister

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    Feminist critique on a street car named desire Although the play itself would have made huge strides in the feminist movement at the time the message behind the play brings out a crucial and relevant message to the audience today‚ and asks bigger questions to young people in a generation that questionably has made very few steps forward in the past few decades. It questions how gendered stereotyping controls our society and how little both sexes care to amend it in an apathetic civilisation. Blanche

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    partially sympathies with Blanche DuBois. This disintegrated character goes through many painful experiences‚ some being the suicide of her young husband Alan Grey‚ her loneliness throughout the play‚ and when her only family member betrays her for desire. On the other hand‚ Blanche loses my sympathy at some events due to the numerous lies she has told throughout the play to many of the characters and the failed attempts of trying to break up Stanley and Stella. It could be argued that Williams deliberately

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    ‘To what extent does Williams portray Stanley as the cause for Blanche’s downfall?’ A Street Car Named Desire is a play written by a Mississippi born writer called Tennessee Williams. A Street Car Named Desire shows a reversal of fortune with Blanche having a life full of fortune with a successful business and a happy marriage however it is all turned upside when all this fortune is removed out of her life resulting in her seeking refuge with a lower class family her sister got married into... this

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    happiness after marriage” and boldly presents a new‚ realistic idea: there are many struggles and impurities found in holy matrimony. Hutcheon shatters the joyful preconceptions of marriage through Wade’s own personal marriage experience‚ and Yoshi’s desire to get a green card. Hutcheon starts breaking down the perfect image of marriage early into the story with Wade’s recollections

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    they had a rough childhood or if they grew up with a silver spoon in their mouth? Blanche Dubois past consists of a dead husband‚ her compulsive lying‚ and prostitution. Blanches past is what led to the eventual demise of her character in A Streetcar Named Desire. Blanche Dubois had a past that was filled with love. In scene 6‚ while sitting with Mitch‚ Blanche talks about her first husband that she met when she was 16. In the story Blanche talks about coming home one night and finding her husband

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    Liz Gilbert had to go through a depressive time where she had to divorce her husband because of her loss of confusion‚ fear‚ grief and shame. After her divorce‚ she decided to travel to Italy‚ India and Indonesia. First‚ she went to Italy to pursuit pleasure‚ and then she went to India to pursuit devotion. Lastly‚ she went to Indonesia to pursuit balance between divine transcendence and enjoyment. During chapters one to fourteen‚ Liz Gilbert was with her husband in New York. After her divorce‚ she

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    Blanche’s Misfortunate Desire The main character in a drama entitled "Street Car Named Desire"‚ written by Tennessee Williams‚ is an emotional woman by the name of Blanche‚ who has many afflictions. The setting of this play is in the state of Louisiana. Blanche has the potential to be a very vigorous woman‚ if she chooses to tap into that unidentified strength. All her life‚ she’s managed to face scrutiny from every possible direction. She has been ostracized from her community‚ lied to throughout

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    There are nine types of heroes in this world‚ each of them with their own unique stories‚ plots‚ cliches etc. Among those is the classic tragic hero‚ one who is destined to fail no matter what. In a Streetcar Named Desire‚ the tragic hero is Blanche Dubois‚ an aging Southern Belle living in a state of perpetual panic about her fading beauty. In this essay it will be discussed what makes Blanche a tragic hero and how she compares to a typical tragic hero. A typical tragic hero is first and foremost

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