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    In the Street Car Named Desire‚ by Tennessee Williams‚ Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. This classical play is about Blanche Dubois’s visit to Elysian Fields and her encounters with her sister’s brutal and arrogant husband‚ Stanley Kowalski‚ and the reveling truth of why Blanche really came. Stanley Kowalski is a very brutal and barbaric person who always has to feel that no one is better than him. His brutish and ferocious actions during the play leave the reader with a bad

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    Conflict causes most of us a great degree of discomfort‚ anger‚ frustration‚ sadness‚ and pain. Conflict is a struggle between two or more forces that creates a tension that must be resolved (although in some stories‚ as in real life‚ it isn’t). Examples of different types of conflict include: - Cultural social class conflict. -Emotional conflict -Group conflict (racial) -Conflict with the

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    Orleans‚ Louisiana‚ in late 1940s. It uses the ironic and sympathetic realism tones to deal with a culture clash between two of the main characters‚ Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. In this essay‚ I will analyze the characteristics of four main characters of the play‚ Blanche DuBois‚ Stanley Kowalski‚ Mitch‚ and Stella Kowalski. Blanche Dubois is a symbolic character in the play. She appears as a pretentious‚ fading relic of the Old South. When the play begins‚ Blanche is already a fallen woman

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    world of the past and the world of the present-unwilling to let go of the past and unable‚ because of her character‚ to come to any sort of terms with the present. The final result is her destruction. This process began long before her clash with Stanley Kowalski. It started with the death of her young husband‚ a weak and perverted boy who committed suicide when she taunted him with her disgust at the discovery of his perversion. In retrospect‚ she knows that he was the only man she had ever loved‚ and

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    different aspects the issues are two of the most important characters in the play‚ Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois. Right from the start‚ Blanche is already a fallen woman in society’s eyes. She is sufficiently self-aware to know that she cannot survive in the world as it is. Reality is too harsh‚ so she must create an illusion that will allow herself to maintain her delicate‚ fragile hold on life. Stanley‚ however‚ represents the new‚ diverse America to which Blanche doesn’t belong. He sees

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    ^^^^^^^^^^A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: BLANCHE DUBOIS Blanche is an English teacher‚ but she’s one of a kind. You’d never forget her if you took her course. Shortly before the play begins‚ Blanche has lost her job. She wasn’t fired for poor teaching skills‚ however. The superintendent’s letter said Blanche was "morally unfit for her position." That’s probably a fair evaluation of a teacher who seduced one of the seventeen-year-old boys in her class. Also‚ Blanche’s sexual exploits so outraged the

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    In A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams‚ the main characters have a difficult time facing reality. Blanche DuBios‚ Stanley Kowalski‚ and Stella Kowalski live different lives‚ but are all stuck within their own fantasy worlds. In this story‚ Williams shows that too much fantasy can lead to devastation. Blanche has been fired from her job as a school teacher for sleeping with a student. She has been kicked out of her town for being a prostitute. Blanche needs to feel young and secure. She

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    divided by two different people one person having the top portion of a house and another person living on the lower level of the house. Later in the film I learn that Blanche DuBois leaves small town Mississippi and moves in with her sister Stella Kowalski in New Orleans. Stella lives in the lower level of the house which rooms are separated by curtains‚ owning bed mattresses that are as hard as a rock and light bulbs hung from the ceiling with no cover over them. Realizing that Stella is not wealthy

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    has since become of her life. She relies on fables and illusions to reconstruct a more socially acceptable self. However‚ the antagonistic relationship between Blanche and Stanley Kowalski threatens her fantasy‚ as he continuously confronts her with reality and threatens to shatter the illusions others have about her. Stanley represents complete realism and Blanche is fantastical and idealistic. Thus‚ the interactions between the two are clearly representative of the struggle between reality and

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    Ostracised and essentially exiled from her hometown of Laurel‚ Mississippi‚ Blanche retreats to the only place she has left to go: her sister Stella’s two-room apartment in New Orleans’ French quarter. When she strikes up a relationship with Mitch‚ Stanley investigates her past to find information that would drive a wedge between them. He eventually reveals to Mitch her history of promiscuity‚ which achieves the intended consequence: “I don’t think I want to marry you any more. You’re not clean enough

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