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    The poem presents the distress of losing one’s dreams. It deals with the questions every person faces at least once in his or her life‚ when everything we have dreamed of disappears‚ and we do not know how to deal with that anxiety and with the abyss that opens in front of us after that. What to do when everything fails? What to do when you reach a moment in life you never thought about? They are a lesbian couple. Theresa seems to be more aware of how society sees the kind of relationship they have

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    This could be because of her gender or that she is a southern belle who is seen to be old fashioned in modern America and is victimized in her surroundings “Her appearance is incongruous to this setting”. The two characters are interconnected by their mutual loneliness and desire to be with someone to deflect their previously suffered emotional damage; “The girl’s dead now”. Though they both have similar experiences

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    A Streetcar Named Desire Analysis Essay Outline I. Topic P A. Williams uses the complex imagery of light to reveal that‚ ultimately‚ Blanche’s attempt to hide her flaws in the dark caused her undermining. To Blanche‚ light serves as a cruel agent used to expose and to hurt‚ while the dark shields. Her destruction‚ like the painful experience of entering sudden and searing brightness after being in a pitch-black room for a long period of time‚ was a result of always shrouding the truth. However

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    Jo flipped the page over. June 21st: School. Mrs Hunt’s interpretation of A Streetcar named Desire. And then quotes from the play including Ash’s favourite: “I shall die of eating an unwashed grape one day out on the ocean.” The same quote was pasted on Ash’s noticeboard in her bedroom. A rant about her mother took up several pages – her voice and her rules and the way she told Ash off for spending money on clothes but then went out shopping most weekends and bought clothes for herself and how

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    I love Robert‚ yet I love myself more. My new life beckons me‚ and as I walk towards it‚ my uncertainties are being crushed under my feet. The soft sand of the shore dissolves my doubts and vulnerabilities. I want to be my own mistress and pet any desire that arouses in me. I intend to immerse myself in my passion for painting and colors. Just as I want to create engrossing pictures that exhibit an amalgamation of the striking spectrum of colors‚ I also want to paint my life in diverse and

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    In this poem‚ the speaker emphasizes a clash between the enticing aroma of desire and the destruction that vain desire has brought down upon the speaker. He describes Desire’s “worthless woe” in an effort to help the reader get a sense for the intense feeling of contempt that the speaker has for Desire. The alliteration in this line helps to smooth out the delivery of the poem‚ creating a pattern that mirrors human speech. The rhyme scheme of the poem is ABABBABABCCBCC‚ and the number of syllables

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    or being a father. Williams “saw himself as a shy‚ sensitive‚ gifted man trapped in a world where “mendacity” placed communication‚ brute violence replaced love‚ and loneliness was all too often‚ the standard human condition(Gale 3).” In a “Streetcar Named Desire” Blanche a woman with an unknown background comes to visit her sister‚ Stella after not seeing her for years. Blanche‚ is escaping to New Orleans to see Stella and

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    A Streetcar Named Desire is 1947 play written by Thomas Lanier “Tennessee” Williams III. It is based on Blanche’s visit to her sister and her conflicts with Stella’s husband‚ Stanley because of their social and perceptional differences. In the ending part of the first scene‚ the first encounter of Blanche and Stanley beginning after the Stanley’s arrival to house after bowling and until the end of the scene‚ Williams aimed to present the characters‚ Stanley as brutal‚ wildish and Blanche’s sensitive

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    A Streetcar Named Desire is written by Tennessee Williams‚ and later filmed by Elia Kazan as director in 1951. The play depicts a story of Blanche Dubois‚ who is exiled from her hometown and go to her sister Stella for shelter‚ loses her mind due to her inappropriate and flirtatious behavior and intense desires of love‚ beauty and youth. In order to present such human tragedy on the movie screen‚ director of the film‚ Elia Kazan‚ make elaborate and meticulous choices‚ arrangement and organization

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    face of what he conceives to be a challenge to his dignity‚ his image of his rightful status. Blanche refuses to remain passive throughout the play‚ she continuously fights for her dignity by truly making herself and others believe that she is the “Southern-belle” should be. You can see this in the way she dresses and presents herself. “You come in here and sprinkle the place with powder and spray perfume and cover the light bulb with a paper lantern‚ and lo and behold the place has turned into Egypt

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