they just don’t want to face the reality. There are many works of 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
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The figure of women in Tennessee Williams’ work Analysis of the Glass Managerie‚ A Streetcar Named Desire and Baby Doll. “If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it” stated Tennessee Williams in the preface of The Dark at the Top of the Stairs by William Motter Inge (1957). Tennessee Williams has never denied that literature was for him a kind of psychoanalysis. In particular‚ it seems that the evocation of women through his work reveals a lot about his personality
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In A Streetcar Named Desire‚ several of the characters use illusion to make themselves more sociably acceptable. This is true especially for Blanche Du Bois. She will lie‚ or "elude" any chance she gets if it will make her look good. Stella uses the "illusion" of a happy marriage to make her life bearable. Some people such as Blanche would much rather live in a dream world of blissful ignorance than face the facts. On the contrary‚ Stanley is a business type of guy that thinks that false happiness
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to protect herself from reality and the tragedies she has to endure * Her seductive posturing half undressed in the gap in the curtains appears instinctive when men are around. This highlights the contradictions in her character : the genteel Southern lady who expects men to stand up when she comes in and who cannot bear a rude remark or vulgar action and the cheap seductress * Blanche’s purchase of the Chinese lantern to put over the light bulb is again symbolic of her inability to face reality
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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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In a Streetcar Named Desire - there is a conflict between Illusion and reality‚ Blanche Dubois arrives in New Orleans with the impression of a patronising‚ wealthy school teacher who has no time for those who she believes to be below her class as we see in her rudeness to Eunice at the very beginning. As the play progresses we see that Blanche is merely projecting a persona which hides both her past and the inevitably grim future that awaits her. On the other side we have Blanche’s brother-in-law
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was named poet laureate of the year for his work in 2000 and 2001. Williams‚ a play write from Mississippi‚ lived from 1911 to 1983. Williams wrote many plays for Broadway and won a Pulitzer Prize. He was plagued with the secret of his homosexuality‚ which he expressed in some of his characters throughout his career. Despite the authors’ personal differences‚ both of their works expressed strong emotions. In Kunitz’s poem‚ After the Last Dynasty‚ and Williams’ play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ two
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Explore the similarities and differences in the presentation of female characters in A Streetcar Named Desire and ‘The World’s Wife The presentation of female characters plays a very significant role in both A Streetcar Named Desire and The World’s Wife and though these texts express similar ideas about women‚ there is also substantial differences. Tennessee Williams’ ASCND‚ tragic first produced in 1947‚ sets his female characters within the patriarchal society of post Second World War New
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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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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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