cosmopolitan city where there is a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races in the old part of town. Above the music of the "Blue Piano" the voices of people on the street can be heard overlapping. [Two men come around the corner‚ Stanley
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when Blanche DuBois comes in New Orleans to visit her sister Stella after she lost the family plantation Belle-Reve because of money problems. She then meets her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski‚ a World War II veteran. As soon as they meet each other‚ a mistrustful rivalry starts between them. A Streetcar Named Desire depicts the conflict between two opposing views as a poker game between Blanche and Stanley for control. From the beginning of the play‚ Williams starts distinguishing Stanley and Blanche
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sweet and fragile Blanche opposed to the cruel and savage Stanley. The play also highlights other dichotomies such as strong and delicate‚ hidden and open‚ and purity and filth. Basically‚ Tennessee Williams uses dichotomies to show main points of theme‚ and Tennessee Williams also use dichotomies to show that viewing life in clear cut options with no grey area is a cause of many problems. One of the main of the themes shown
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Class conflict is represented throughout the play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire in various ways through characters‚ symbols‚ ideas and language. Characters such as Blanche‚ Stella‚ Mitch and Stanley are used throughout the text to represent the upper and lower classes‚ as well as the conflict between the two classes. Symbols‚ ideas and language help to define the different classes as well as helping to represent the conflict between classes. The language (dialogue) of the characters‚ symbolic use of
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victim of abuse from those around her. Blanche Dubois‚ Stella’s sister staying with Stella and Stanley from Laurel‚ finds herself lost after loosing a life of luxury on a ranch. Stanley‚ Stella’s husband‚ has irreconcilable differences with Blanch on most views. The great difference between Stanley and Blanche causes Stella to be a middleman: caught in-between the ongoing dispute. This position Stella holds attracts guilt and abuse from Stanley and Blanche. An outsider’s view of sympathy towards
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STANLEY. Hey‚ there! Stella‚ Baby! [Stella comes out on the first floor landing‚ a gentle young woman about twenty-five‚ and of a background obviously quite different from her husband’s.] (13) This is the opening line from A Streetcar Named Desire‚ by Tennesee Williams‚ one of many differences in the first scene of the play compared to the film directed by Elia Kazan. The film was based off of the original play by Williams‚ which Kazan directed as well. This fact is most likely why the majority
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the manner in which Williams portrays the three characters Blanche‚ Stanley and Stella‚ as well the added tension through the structure of the scene‚ and finally in the stage directions. Through the use of these techniques‚ an atmosphere of tension is seen and felt by the audience‚ and the contrasts of the characters motifs are clearly highlighted. The conflict between old and new is demonstrated clearly by a statement made by Stanley‚ which really shows the audience how contrasted the two families
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and delicate Southern lady (Blanche Dubois) born to a once-wealthy family. Her impoverished‚ tragic downfall in the squalid‚ .. Huntleigh for help escaping from New Orleans; when Stella laughs at her‚Blanche reveals that she is completely broke. Stanley walks in as Blanche ismaking fun of him and secretly overhears Blanche and Stella’s conversation.Later‚ he threatens Blanche with hints that he has heard rumors of herdisreputable past. She is visibly dismayed.While Blanche is alone in theapartment one
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together. Stanley‚ the son of Polish immigrants‚ represents the changing face of America. Williams’s romanticizing is more evident in his portrayal of New 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
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In the 1947 play A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams‚ there is an on going battle of rivalry between Stanley and Blanche‚ resulting to Blanche retreating into a world of illusions in order to protect herself. The two come from completely different societal worlds and have contrasting personalities‚ Stanley being powerful‚ controlling and strong and Blanche‚ being fragile‚ weak and vulnerable. Despite their hatred for each other and their differences they have many similar traits
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