The language of Stanley and Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire David Kinder The dynamic opposition between Blanche and Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most important forces in the play. Williams creates and maintains an antipathy and tension between them so that‚ despite the audience’s horror at what Stanley does to Blanche in scene 10‚ the fact that there is a final clash between the two characters comes as no surprise to us. Stanley’s gruesome boast to Blanche before the rape
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personalities. Elysian Fields is a poor‚ jaunty suburb in New Orleans yet the perfect setting for this play. It is full of diversity‚ culture and is very vibrant. It embellishes the view of Blanche on Stella situation and the laid back style of Stanley’s generation as well as the characters themselves. When this play begins‚ Blanche is already viewed as a fallen woman in society’s eyes. Her family is gone‚ as well as her estate and fortune. She aspires for people to see herself as gentile and a proper lady and
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the characters are using illusions in an attempt to escape reality. The best example is found by looking to the main character. Blanche Dubois was a troubled woman who throughout the play lives her life in illusions. The story begins with Blanche going to New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella‚ and her husband Stanley for a while. Here‚ the illusions are revealed and the battle between the illusions and the characters will begin. What initially leads to her
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middle of Blanche and Stanley’s conflict‚ this is mainly because they both have continuous battles over who gets to have her love and affection. Stella is in the middle of this territorial battle‚ and is always presented in a situation in where she has to defend either her husband or sister. Williams establishes a contrast between them. For example‚ when Stella says‚ in Scene One‚ that ’the best I could do was make my own living‚ Blanche’‚ Williams
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one describe Blanche as a “moth”‚ this links to her obsession with the light but also that could she be attracted to tragedy like a moth is to light? Blanche’s intolerability of light means that her grasp on reality is reaching the end. Symbol of Blanche’s Trunk Symbolises and foreshadows Stanley’s aggressiveness towards Blanche “pulls” and “jerks” show his physical strength Also shows Stanley’s suspicions of Blanche and her character Stanley exposes the truth about Blanche by finding expensive
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Play In Tennesse Williams’ A Street Car Named Desire‚ Williams sets up the character of Blanche as soon as she is introduced in the play. Her desire‚ her heartbreak‚ her downfall‚ and her extremely complex past are all foreshadowed in Blanch’s first lines of the play‚ “They told me to take a street-car named Desire‚ and transfer to one called Cemeteries‚ and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!” (Blanche Du Bois‚ 6). The street-cars‚ desire and cemeteries‚ are symbolic to Blanche’s character
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relatively uncivilized‚ yet real‚ grip on reality. The two characters who come to represent this tension are Blanche and Stanley Kowalski. Blanche advertises herself as a champion of “Southern Honor.” This entails an unfaltering dedication to virtue and culture. These are not‚ however‚ driving factors in her life but only mask her alcoholism and delusions of grandeur. By contrast‚ Stanley is an industrial worker who acts on habit and structure. Tennessee Williams juxtaposes illusion and reality by
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misleading impression of reality. In Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire‚ characters such as Blanche Dubois‚ Harold Mitchell (Mitch)‚ and Stella Kowalski often use illusion in an attempt to escape reality. Blanche Dubois is a woman who uses fantasy in order to protect herself from her own fears and the undesirable circumstances which occur in her life. Mitch uses illusion by regarding Blanche as the perfect woman in order to escape her lies and false reality. Stella uses illusion to make it
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better. During a poker game with his friends‚ Stanley becomes very frustrated with the loud music being played by‚ his wife‚ Stella and her sister Blanche. As a result‚ he throws the radio out the window and Stella then gets in an argument with him. Stanley then hits Stella and she leaves the house. “You lay your hand on me and I’ll - [She backs out of sight. He advances and disappears. There is the sound of a blow. Stella cries out.]” (57). When Stanley hit Stella‚ instead of leaving him and being
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especially through Stanley and Stella’s relationship and Stanley and Blanche’s rape scene. Throughout the play the character of Blanche is flirtatious and she relies on the perception of herself as an object of male sexual desire as a way of operating in the world. Blanche’s interaction with any of the men in the play is always flirtatious‚ especially at the beginning when she meets them. Blanche’s language and actions in the play is always provocative. Blanche tells Stella that she and Stanley smoothed things
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