game. He also shows domination over his wife by hitting her during an argument. <br> <br>Scene three opens with a description of surroundings during a poker night. The description of the poker night immediately introduces it as an all guys night. Stanley‚ Steve‚ Mitch and Pablo‚ all men are described as wearing shirts that have colours that are "powerful as the primary colours". Primary colours are childish colours showing how childish and immature their personality is going to be through out the
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always depended on the kindness of strangers.’ Blanche’s last words of the play are a direct and most effective appeal for the audience’s sympathy and pity. To what extent do you feel that the character of Blanche DuBois can be viewed as a tragic victim. Word count = 1‚500 By Georgia Tucker Blanche Dubois‚ The leading role in Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire is often viewed as a tragic victim - This is a woman who doesn’t want realism‚ She wants magic‚ but even despite the way she
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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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personalities. While Stanley is the definite dominant male‚ controlling and demanding to his wife‚ Stella‚ who has learned to tolerate his personality; Mitch is the overall average good guy‚ desiring nothing short of a normal life with a loving wife. Blanche is the main character in the story and is the sister of Stella. The two of them have been apart over the years and recently came together again. With the past haunting her trail‚ Blanche tries to run far beyond it. Stanley doesn’t help matters
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human existence‚ simply because it affects how we view ourselves and also others view us. Blanche Dubois‚ Stanley Kowalski‚ Harold Mitch‚ and Stella Kowalski all learned this through their continuous evolution throughout “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams‚ however by focusing on Blanche’s relations and also her past we are able to see the role that that perception plays in her life. When Blanche says‚“A woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion” this becomes increasingly significant because
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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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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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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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