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    superior local color for this part of the Unites States was white or Caucasian. Society members that fell under this category were either a wealthy class. The African Americans in Creole were slaves to the whites. The story illuminates the life of a girl named Desiree. While she is sitting in a very familiar and important location on her front door step next to a pillar‚ is when the story takes off. Kate Chopin successfully construes the story to be real and gives it an unforgettable emotional force. Chopin

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    Sound Designer: State the interpretation and approach of your director. Do you personally agree‚ or disagree‚ with the interpretation and approach of your director? Why? The sound designer has an extreme importance in the play. The sound designer need to study techniques‚ theories and music to have a great understand to be able to introduce sounds and music in the play in order to show emotions and feelings. According to the President of the American Association of the Community Theatre (AACT)

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    This play tells the feverish story of the pathetic mental and emotional demise of a determined‚ however fragile‚ repressed and delicate Southern lady (Blanche Dubois) born to a once-wealthy family. Her impoverished‚ tragic downfall in the squalid‚ .. Huntleigh for help escaping from New Orleans; when Stella laughs at her‚Blanche reveals that she is completely broke. Stanley walks in as Blanche ismaking fun of him and secretly overhears Blanche and Stella’s conversation.Later‚ he threatens Blanche

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    The play titled "Driving Miss Daisy" directed for the stage in Melbourne‚ Australia by David Esbjornson is a classic one. Initially‚ the playwright Alfred Uhry‚ made this play a Broadway hit in 2010‚ and is still popular to this day. In short‚ "Driving Miss Daisy"‚ is about race and the growing and changing times in the United States. Daisy‚ being a Jewish widow is condemned from driving‚ therefore‚ her son‚ hires a chauffeur of African-American descent‚ so after‚ their friendship emerges and America

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    The Beauty of Silence: A Scene Analysis of City Lights Charlie Chaplin’s 1931 silent film City Lights follows the story The Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) who fall in with a Blind Girl (Virginia Cherrill) selling flowers on the side of the street. Unable to see that The Tramp is really a vagrant in gentlemen’s clothing‚ she mistakes him for a wealthy gentleman. The Tramp‚ who has fallen for the blind beauty‚ makes no attempt to correct her. Instead The Tramp attempts to earn money to help the woman he

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    Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire partially explores the deep conflict within the relationship of Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois. And in doing so‚ Williams has crafted a play that reflects upon the context of the time‚ using these two characters to express the clashing values of the traditional old world and the rough‚ aggressive new world. Set in New Orleans immediately following World War II‚ Tennessee Williams infuses Blanche and Stanley with the symbols of opposing class and differing

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    that individual put all they had into something. All that matters is how that strength and power is used by the individual. Two works of literature that support this quote are “A Street Car Named Desire” By‚ Tennessee Williams and “Macbeth.” By‚ William Shakespeare. In the play write “A Street Car Named Desire” there are many examples of greatness and power in characters in which they weren’t strong but they knew how to use the power and strength that they had and others didn’t know how to use their

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    your husband is what a wife was expected to do. Issues of domestic abuse were expected to be dealt with in a household without the interference of the authorities‚ since it was believed to be a woman’s fault. This is perhaps why in A Street Car Named Desire Stella’s role is submissive. We see this when in reply to Blanche’s concern regarding Stanley’s behaviour Stella says “But there are things that happen between a man and woman in the dark”. Here Stella suggests that she almost can justify Stanley’s

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    There are many prevalent themes throughout the play‚ Streetcar Named Desire‚ by Tennessee Williams. One major theme of the play is femininity vs. masculinity. The main characters‚ Blanche DuBois‚ and Stella and Stanley Kowalski reflect the stereotypical gender roles. Stella and Stanley’s dysfunctional relationship faces even more complications when Stella’s sister‚ Blanche moves in temporarily. Throughout the course of this play‚ the Kowalski relationship is proven to be very unhealthy‚ due to Stella’s

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    Thesis: The theme in "Desiree’s Baby" by Kate Chopin is a condemnation of racism. "It means . . . that the child is not white; it means that you are not white" (132). The previous statement is indeed very crucial to determining that the theme of the story "Desiree’s Baby" by Kate Chopin is a condemnation of racism. The proof that this is the theme lies within the time period when the story was written along with the stories setting‚ Armand’s racist behavior‚ and the overall outcome of the story

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