sensitive‚ neurotic 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
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“A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams “Stella has embraced him with both arms‚ fiercely‚ and full in the view of Blanche. He laughs and clasps her head to him. Over her head he grins through the curtains at Blanche.” (Williams 73) A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams exemplifies the theme of a struggle to attain happiness. The play not only portrays this theme in its characters and setting‚ but through the literary devices of Foil‚ Imagery‚ and Intertextuality. Williams
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A: The exposition is the 1940s in New Orleans‚ LA. Blanche took a streetcar named Desire from Laurel‚ MS to her sisters’‚ Stella’s apartment. Stellas’ place is in the working-class district in a worn-down part of the city. 3. What is the inciting incident? Give the exact line or action. A: The inciting incident is the arrival of Blanche to Stellas’ apartment. 4. Why is this the inciting incident? A: Blanche believed that her sister‚ because of there upbringing‚ was living
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provokes this response and discuss how this aspect of the scene contributes to your understanding of the play as a whole. The penultimate scene of Tennessee William’s play “A Streetcar named Desire” in which the protagonist Blanche Dubois is raped by her brother-in –law‚ Stanley Kowalski‚ is deeply disturbing to the audience. Williams uses this scene as a climax of both the play’s plot and a number of key themes At the start of the scene we can see that Blanche’s already eccentric character has
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Desire depicts Blanche and Stella’s lives as lies‚ while revealing how they do not wish to face their own realities‚ for they will never to able to live the life they have always hoped for. Throughout the play‚ Blanche is living a lie and existing in a fantasy. Blanche DuBois‚ who is lost and confused‚ lies to herself through the entire play. At the beginning‚ Blanche lies to her sister‚ Stella‚ about taking a break from her school teaching job‚ when in reality‚ she has
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important theme of the play. Blanche and her sister come from a dying world. The life and pretensions of their world are becoming a thing of memory: to drive home the point‚ the family mansion is called "Belle Reve‚" or Beautiful Dream. The old life may have been something beautiful‚ but it is gone forever. Yet Blanche clings to pretensions of aristocracy. She is now as poor as Stanley and Stella‚ but she cannot help but look down on the humble Kowalski apartment. Stanley tells her that she’ll
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uncertainties. Blanche is known as a pathological liar who lives in the past and gives into desire. Based on her inability to control her desires‚ Blanche is to blame. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams describes Blanche Dubois as a neurotic central character who lives in a fantasy world of old south chivalry but cannot control her desires. Although Blanche is to blame for herown demise‚ society did play a role in the person she became. The story is about the fading and desperate Blanche DuBois
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life in one’s own fantasy. Throughout the play‚ Stella avoids confronting the truth about Stanley and shelters herself with the myth that he is what is best for her. Stella can not face the truth when she knows it deep down. Once hearing Blanche’s story that Stanley raped her‚ Stella admits she “could not believe her story and go on living” the way she had (164). Stella’s life is dependent on the idea of Stanley being what is good for her‚ and she could not “go on living” if that idea was proved false
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asked how particular extracts could be used to answer essay questions. Scene Four Blanche and Stella discuss the events of the night before. Discuss the view that the tragedy in Streetcar stems from the conflict of two opposing worlds * Conflict is presented through language: Blanche describes Stanley’s feelings for Stella as ‘brutal desire’ (oxymoron). * In Blanche’s longer speech‚ she presents Stanley as an animal “like one of those pictures I’ve seen in – anthropological studies”. To
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is sick. Stella and Blanche return from the show‚ and Blanche is introduced to the other players. When Stanley tells the ladies to disappear until the game is finished‚ Stella reminds him that it is 2:30 A.M. and time to quit. Stanley swats her rear and the sisters go into the other room‚ where Blanche meets Harold Mitchell coming from the bathroom. When he leaves‚ Blanche thinks that he looks more sensitive than the others and is told that Mitch’s mother is very sick. Blanche begins to undress until
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