blue-collar characters on their own terms‚ without romanticizing them. In Streetcar‚ stage effects are used to represent Blanche’s decent into madness. The maddening polka music‚ jungle sound effects‚ and strange shadows help to represent the world as Blanche experiences it. These effects are a departure from the conventions of naturalistic drama‚ although in this respect Streetcar is not as innovative as The Glass Menagerie. Nevertheless‚ A Streetcar Named Desire uses these effects to create a highly
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Tennessee Williams’ Harold Mitchel: Chivalrous Knight to Cowardly Boy In Tennessee William’s play “A Streetcar Named Desire”‚ Harold Mitchel stands out as a chivalrous man among his group of friends and thus catches the eye of Blanche DuBois. Blanche desperately relies on his gentlemanly nature and demands a certain amount of cavalier that he is pleased to match. Harold‚ better knows as Mitch‚ gets clumsily excited around Blanche’s extraordinary behavior‚ which‚ in substitute‚ feeds her desire
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relations with various people; a trait which both characters can be seen to possess. They contrast in terms of the view that society has upon them. The beginning of the drama ‘A streetcar Named Desire’ (1947) Williams suggests to the audience that Blanche feels as though she has lost everything including her family‚ her fortune and her estate. However the audience are currently unaware of her promiscuity‚ so a judgement of her based on this is not yet formed. Later on in the play the audience also
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Conversely Blanche - a fading figure of the Southern Belle - arrives on stage ‘daintily dressed...as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district’. The power struggle that ensues between these two characters acts as a microcosm for cultural changes that were happening across America at the time. Tony Coult describes a 1940s America as a country ‘facing a new world – industrialised and with many of the traditional social structures ... disrupted’1. Blanche struggles
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Orleans as a city where upper-class people marry members of the lower class‚ fights get ugly but are forgotten the next day‚ and the perpetual bluesy notes of an old piano take the sting out of poverty. The play immediately establishes Stanley and Blanche as polar opposites‚ with Stella as the link between them. Stage directions describe Stanley as a virulent character whose chief pleasure is women. His dismissal of Blanche’s beauty is therefore significant‚ because it shows that she does not exude
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‘There is a fine line between reality and illusion’ How can we distinguish between reality and illusion? Is reality an illusion‚ or is an illusion simply reality? Albert Einstein once stated that ‘reality is merely an illusion‚ albeit a very persistent one’. The statement suggests that what we interpret to be real may well be an illusion and this is evidenced mainly through dreams and aspirations. For example if someone has dreamt of one day being a doctor their reality‚ which is described as
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A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams And so it was I entered the broken world To trace the visionary company of love‚ its voice An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) But not for long to hold each desperate choice "The Broken Tower" by Hart Crane SCENE ONE The exterior of a two-story corner building on a street in New Orleans which is named Elysian Fields and runs between the L & N tracks and the river. The section is poor but‚ unlike corresponding
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uncertainties. Blanche is known as a pathological liar who lives in the past and gives into desire. Based on her inability to control her desires‚ Blanche is to blame. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams describes Blanche Dubois as a neurotic central character who lives in a fantasy world of old south chivalry but cannot control her desires. Although Blanche is to blame for herown demise‚ society did play a role in the person she became. The story is about the fading and desperate Blanche DuBois
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by both material wealth and a male dominated society. In both Death of a Salesman and a Streetcar Named desire the main protagonist of the play‚ blanche dubois and Willy loman are both trapped in a illusion that are created by the effects of society‚ however these illusions that are created are used by their protagonists for separate reasons. Blanche uses the illusion as a deffence mechanism against those who suppress her in society while Willy simply is not fully consciously aware that he is even
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‘Compare the ways writers’ present disconcerting behaviour in both texts so far.’ The following will elucidate how disturbing behaviour is conveyed in the novel The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks and the play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. In A Streetcar Named Desire‚ the theme of violence is very frequent in the character Stanley Kowalski. Stanley is a married‚ young man‚ who comes across to the reader as quite an enraged person with animalistic attributes. A prime insinuation of
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