Even from the first few scenes of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’‚ we can see that Blanche DuBois is a complicated character; throughout the play she ignores warnings and breaks moral codes‚ and it is this that leads to her demise of character. At the beginning of the play‚ when we are introduced to Blanche‚ and our initial impression of her is that she is a judgemental person who seems to think quite highly of herself. Although Eunice is trying to help her‚ Blanche is rude and brief in response. She
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laughed. You never know what Stanley is going to say! "I think I stepped in something gross‚" Mark complained‚ catching up to us. 1 I always know what Mark is going to say. My brother only knows three words — cool‚ weird‚ and gross. Really. That’s his whole vocabulary. As a joke‚ I gave him a dictionary for his last birthday. "You’re weird‚" Mark said when I handed it to him. "What a gross gift." He scraped his white high-tops on the ground as we followed Stanley to the beat-up‚ red pickup truck
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turns to her little sister Stella‚ who lives in with her husband Stanley in a poor area of New Orleans. She is a very deluded character; She hides her past and fragility behind her Southern aristocrat clothes and manners and is very harsh and mean to Stanley‚ calling him “bestial” (71). When her past is revealed‚ she loses a guy named Mitch’s love and the possibility of getting married to him. At the end of the play‚ she is raped by Stanley (Stella’s husband)‚ goes crazy‚ and is taken to the state mental
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a play‚ explores how power shifts between men and women such as the way that Blanche’s character loses the power of her status to become dependent on Stanley. The second looks at the power struggle between two men explored through Joe’s obsession created by Jed whilst still highlighting the power struggle of a woman in the way that
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The main character‚ Stanley Yelnats‚ is there for a crime he supposedly did not commit. The boys are all forced to dig holes each and every day that are five feet wide five feet deep so it will help enforce their character. The book is a thriller with mysterious aspects as well as humorous aspects and is the perfect book for all to read. Stanley had always had bad luck. Unfortunately‚ this wasn’t because of him‚ but his great great
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Blanche DuBois and the crude‚ animalistic Stanley Kowalski. <br><br>Blanche visits the home of her sister‚ Stella‚ in New Orleans and that is when Stanley started picking at her‚ almost testing her. Before she had met Stanley‚ she told her sister of how their plantation had been lost due to the costs of paying for the funerals of many family members. There was not enough money for her to keep the plantation. While Blanche bathed after her arrival‚ Stanley came home. Stella had told him what had happened
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out of the apartment saying she is going to call the police. Stanley comes home‚ in bowling clothes. Steve comes down with a bruise on his forehead; Stanley tells Steve that Eunice has gone to a neighbourhood bar and Steve rushes out to find her. • Stanley then questions Blanche. He says that he has a friend in Laurel who claims that Blanche was a guest at a disreputable hotel named ‘The Flamingo’‚ Blanche denies the claims and Stanley leaves. Steve and Eunice return‚ Eunice sobbing and Steve trying
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lake. The boys are forced to dig holes because of this and the person overseeing them is the Warden‚ who is the granddaughter of Mr. Charles Walker who was‚ in a way‚ responsible for Kate Barlow’s death. Stanley meeting Zero‚ Zero turning out to be Madame Zeroni’s great-great-great-grandson and Stanley helping to carry him up God’s thumb was not a coincidence‚ but it was fate that brought them together so they could complete the cycle and end Stanley’s curse. Fate has the power to alter lives and change
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Streetcar Named Desire Scene 2 1) Stella tells Stanley that Belle Reve (Rive?) is lost. It leads to a little argument. He asks for the papers‚ looks inside her trunk. He finds clothes‚ letters from Blanche’s dead husband‚ in a tin box. Napoleonic code. Stanley reveals Stella’s pregnancy. Belle Reve was lost on mortgage‚ sold by Ambler & Ambler 2) Sees through Blanche’s trunk. “Your looks are okay” -> Blanche was expecting compliments 3) Beautiful dresses - no paper at the
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Williams’ Broadway play opens with Stanley “heaving up a blood-stained package to Stella” (Holland 1); “Stanley carries his bowling jacket and a red-stained package from a butcher’s … he heaves the package at her” (Williams 2(stage directions)). Holland claims that the blood-stained package alludes to the primitive hunter
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