apartment and Blanche has been drinking since then. As she dresses up looking like going on a date and looking into the hand mirror she seems to be shocked about herself. “She catches her breath and slams the mirror face down with such violence that the glass cracks.” (p. 136-137‚l.21-1) Stanley arrives at home at this time and he has been drinking‚ too. The baby won’t come before morning‚ so Stanley came back to the apartment. They will be alone that night. Blanche tells Stanley that she received
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Instead of a novel ‘A Streetcar named Desire’ is a play‚ which also focus’s on another couple‚ called the ‘Kowalski’s’‚ Stanley and Stella have been married for a year and are having their first child together. The two of them have come from completely different backgrounds; Stanley is a working class ‘Polack’‚ born and raised in America but his family is from Poland. On the other hand‚ Stella is from a higher class French decent family that had a lot
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Stella‚ and Blanche. Because of low self esteem and her delusional thought process Blanche is most affected by the madness. Blanche’s delusional life style leads her to compulsively lie‚ live a promiscuous life style‚ and alcoholism. Blanche tries constantly to deal with her own madness‚ but her delusional mental state is constantly effect by the people around her. Although she causes most of the problems in her life some of her madness is justifiable. By the end of the play Blanche can no longer
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Named Desire‚ the theme of violence is very frequent in the character Stanley Kowalski. Stanley is a married‚ young man‚ who comes across to the reader as quite an enraged person with animalistic attributes. A prime insinuation of Stanley’s difference to regular humans is when Stella DuBois (Stanley’s wife) explains to her sister that Stanley is of “a different species”‚ foreshadowing that Williams may be warning the reader that Stanley is capable of things that are not in the norm. Additionally‚ his
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Main Characters Stanley‚ Stella and Blanche are constantly partaking in power plays where they experience dominant and submissive stances. Firstly I am going to discuss how Stella is depicted as both powerful and weak through her succumbing to balance and Stanley. Secondly I am going to explore how Blanche eludes strength in her manipulative skills but simultaneously is masking her ever present weakness. Finally I will take a look at the power play that exists between Blanche and Stanley and demonstrate
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rough childhood or if they grew up with a silver spoon in their mouth? Blanche Dubois past consists of a dead husband‚ her compulsive lying‚ and prostitution. Blanches past is what led to the eventual demise of her character in A Streetcar Named Desire. Blanche Dubois had a past that was filled with love. In scene 6‚ while sitting with Mitch‚ Blanche talks about her first husband that she met when she was 16. In the story Blanche talks about coming home one night and finding her husband in bed with
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The loss of traditional values can be seen at the beginning of the play by the portrayal of the fading Southern beauty‚ Blanche‚ in Laurel‚ Mississippi. Her home‚ Belle Reve‚ and family fortune were gone. It reveals that she is having a financial difficulty. Since she lost her young husband to suicide years earlier‚ she has a strong need for human affection. Later‚ she was fired from her job as an English teacher because she had an affair with a teenage student. Finally‚ she has no choice but to
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dislike the way that reality appears to be for the. In “A Streetcar Named Desire‚” Tennessee Williams protagonist‚ Blanche Dubois finds herself to be in a situation of living in illusion instead of reality. Williams’s addresses the importance of individuals who attempt to live unconstrained‚ through Blanche. Through her elusion 0f reality‚ her fantasy meets the inconvenience of Stanley Kowalski‚ who poses as reality. Through the ups and downs of fantasy attempting to prevail unrestricted in the presence
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melting pot of cultures and values. 7. The idea of the inevitable conflict between the declining aristocratic class and the burgeoning proletariat is evident as soon as Blanche arrives because‚ even in such a cosmopolitan city‚ is “incongruous to this setting” (Scene 1). Furthermore‚ Elysian Fields = Greek heaven & Blanche = Romantic South. Her arrival foreshadows conflict as it is the death of the old South. 8. Furthermore‚ the idea of conflict is accentuated by the description of Blanche’s
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A Streetcar Named Desire‚ by Tennessee Williams‚ is a thrilling depiction of a woman’s fall from grace. Blanche DuBois‚ the protagonist of the story‚ is forced to move in with‚ or “visit‚” her sister in New Orleans. Throughout the play‚ Blanche struggles to accept her reality‚ and ultimately her fate. Blanche is misunderstood and driven to insanity by Stella’s practical husband‚ Stanley. This play portrays her journey from a dream land to total insanity. The play also depicts many societal norms
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