SYMBOLIC DEVICES IN TENNESSEE WILLIAMS‚ A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE 1. Introduction Written in 1947‚ A Streetcar Named Desire has always been considered one of Tennessee Williams’s most successful plays. One reason for this may be found in the way Williams makes extensive use of symbols as a dramatic technique. This happens in all of his plays‚ but in this instance Williams integrates symbols very effectively with ideas and thematic content. He once explained that symbolism is a way to “say a
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know that Stanley raped Blanche? If so‚ why didn’t she care? 2. Why was there no apparent difference between blacks and whites in the play‚ given the time period? 3. Does Blanche ever heal and go on to live a normal life on her own? CRITISISM From a feminist perspective‚ A Streetcar Named Desire is a work ready to be analyzed. The differences between men and women are especially prominent in the relationship between Stanley and Stella. The language and actions that Stanley uses to address
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May 18‚ 2012 Final Research Paper: A Streetcar Named Desire Draft Blanche Dubois is a character in Tennessee William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire. She is a rather important person in the play‚ as the plot is largely centered on her and Stanley Kowalski. Her character is challenging and controversial because she has a shocking past but portrays herself to be a classy and sophisticated woman. Blanche arrives at her sister Stella’s apartment in New Orleans‚ Louisiana on a streetcar named
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develops the theme ‘desire’ with the help of characterization through Blanche‚ symbolism and other stylistic devices which foreshadow her fate. Desire is one of the most prominent themes in this play. Each character is deeply affected by desire. Stanley and Stella’s relationship is built on it and Blanche’s inability to control her desire leads to her eventual downfall. Blanche is an aging southern belle who fear is losing her beauty. She believe by constantly seducing men younger to her she would
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expensive!” (22)‚ Blanche says to Stella explaining herself. “That long parade to the Graveyard! Father‚ Mother! Margaret‚ That dreadful way! So big with it‚…(scene 1‚ pg 21)” Blanche obviously couldn’t afford all these funerals on a teaching salary. Stanley implies that Blanche had been prostituting in Laurel at The Flamingo‚ “The Flamingo is used to all kinds of goings-on. But even the management of the Flamingo was impressed by Dame Blanche!” (120). Ultimately Blanche was trying to restore her life
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its own (laissez-faire in French means “leave it alone”). (Macionis‚ 2013. P110). The Danish government adopted this style of leadership and allowed cannabis to be smoked and allowed open prostitution. 3.What does the research by Solomon Asch and Stanley Milgram show us about the ability of social groups to affect the opinions and behavior of group members? The research showed that people when under pressure by peers or an authoritative figure conform. Solomon Asch (1952) recruited students for what
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pariah due to her indiscrete sexual behavior. She also seeks for people attention and wants them to complement her. She has bad drinking habit which she tries to hide from everyone. Blanche’s flirtatious behavior causes a lot of problems in Stella and Stanley life. Blanche displayed cunning‚ manipulative‚ and mendacious types of personalities which makes her antagonist. Furthermore‚ she is always judging people based on their social class and consider herself from superior class. When she first arrives
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Use of Astrology and Names in SND The author’s use of Blanche and Stanley’s astrological signs and the meanings of their names helps to define their characters in “Streetcar Named Desire”. Stanley’s astrological sign is Capricorn which is the sign of the goat. Blanche’s sign is Virgo‚ the sign of the virgin. Appropriately‚ both signs are sex symbols. Virgo is the only zodiacal sign represented by a female. Virgo implies and stands for virginity. Sometimes thought of as an older woman
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social class context and show the differences of social status and education as well as of character personality. In the play the very marked differences between Stanley and Blanche are stressed by Stanley’s non-grammatical‚ slangy speech compared against Blanche’s poetic‚ smoothly‚ upper-class spoken language. She also constantly reminds Stanley that she was a teacher of English. When playing the character of Blanche it was important to consider her delivery of language. At times there is a lyrical
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Fear of Disobeying Leads to Genocide Obedience‚ as well as disobedience‚ has been ingrained in our culture since the beginning of time‚ so it is no surprise that so many people obeyed Hitler and killed millions of Jewish people. In the Christian religion disobedience is viewed as bad and obedience as good. In the story of Adam and Eve‚ they disobeyed God by eating from the tree of knowledge and were exiled from Eden. In the story of Noah‚ he obeyed God and Noah and his family were rewarded and
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