“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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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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Many plays do not require elaborate stage directions because it’s not always important to the play’s structure. In Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie‚ however‚ stage directions are essential to the understanding of the play. The play had a number of stage directions but all contributed immensely to show the reader and or audience what exactly was going on. The stage directions and use of spectacle in The Glass Menagerie intensify the somewhat unrealistic setting and help show certain elements
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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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Scene Three – a pivotal scene * Initially the play was to be called “The Poker Party” Why? * Scene three cements Stanley’s identity as the villain * Scene three highlights the primal nature of Stanley and Stella’s relationship * Scene three illustrates Stanley’s domination over his friends as he makes all the decisions about the game * Scene three illustrates his friends devotion as they look after him tenderly when he is drunk * Scene three is when Stella first chooses
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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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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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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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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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Williams also reinforces his implied themes with many motifs and symbols‚ such as music‚ drunkenness‚ and bathing. Towards the end of scene three‚ Blanche turns on the radio and “waltzes to the music with romantic gestures [while Mitch imitates] like a dancing bear” (57). Because Blanche is accustomed to her insanity‚ which is represented by the Varsouviana Polka‚ she is able to move along with the music fine while Mitch‚ who is accustomed to reality (and has primitive traits)‚ is unable to gracefully
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