Blanche is an insecure individual who has been disowned by society. She is an aging Southern belle who lives in a state of panic about her fading beauty. Her manner is dainty and frail‚ and she sports a wardrobe of showy but cheap evening clothes. Stanley quickly sees through Blanche’s act and seeks out information about her past. In the Kowalski household‚ Blanche pretends to be a woman who has never known indignity. Her facade doesn’t just consist of snobbery‚ but it is also an attempt to make
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The last scene in A Streetcar Named Desire where Blanche is getting ready for her departure is such a heartbreaking scene. Blanche continues her routine for a bath and depending on her sister to help her brings the previous events back to normal showing that everyone is acting through habit‚ though it is more of a false reality because it is easier to continue doing the same thing than to confront the issue. After Stella’s child has been born‚ Blanche is waiting for her dream man to pick her up and
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"The Shining" by Stanley Kubrick One of the most ambiguous movies shot by Stanley Kubrick is “The Shining” – a horror film‚ that tells a story of a family that has moved into a hotel called the Overlook‚ which was inhabited by ghosts. Throughout the film‚ the plot develops around the Torrance family: Jack‚ Wendy‚ and their son Danny. Kubrick based the film on a novel written by Steven King. The literary source is rather thrilling and intriguing‚ and the film can be basically given the same positive
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to understand them and their actions. The nuances of speech set the characters in their class context and show the differences of social status and education as well as of character. In A Streetcar Named Desire the very marked differences between Stanley and Blanche are stressed by Stanley’s non-grammatical‚ coarse‚ often slangy speech as against Blanche’s high-flown rhetoric which often rings false (as it is meant
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nature and magnifies them into his characters’ personalities. The bare innocence of Stella‚ the raw masculinity of Stanley‚ and the sheer insanity of Blanche‚ all to show uniquely human qualities. To say that Stanley is an animalistic and primitive being‚ would be stating the obvious. Being married to the naïve Stella‚ his virility is even more apparent than it would be with just Stanley alone. By using these two vitally different human natures‚ Williams is able to dictate the inner conflict each person
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about by a Yale University psychologist by the name of Stanley Milgram. The experiment was to test how well the study participants were and the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with what they thought was right. He concluded people obey either out of fear or out of a desire to appear cooperative even when acting against their own better judgment and desires. Stanley Milgram raised a question of why so many people obey when
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awaits her. On the other side we have Blanche’s brother-in-law Stanley who acts in opposition of the illusion which Blanche has created and takes it upon himself to expose Blanche for what she really is. Blanche like all human beings is not infallible in her illusion as her own body and actions betray her at times
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In ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and ‘Solar’ promiscuity is an important theme in both characters’ pasts that affects their later life. How far do you agree? Promiscuity can be defined as having alternate sexual relations with various people; a trait which both characters can be seen to possess. They contrast in terms of the view that society has upon them. The beginning of the drama ‘A streetcar Named Desire’ (1947) Williams suggests to the audience that Blanche feels as though she has lost everything
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Discuss the various ways the confidant or confidante functions in one of the following works. In the play‚ A Streetcar named Desire‚ Tennessee Williams depicts a conflict through his main character‚ Blanche Dubois. Blanche has a problem in believing that she is in a fantasy world. In this play one of the confidants that she has is Mitch. She not only develops a sexual connection to him but an emotional connection as well. Throughout the play and in real life one thing that plays a major role
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‘Compare the ways in which alienation of individuals from their societies is presented in the two texts you have studied.’ George Bernard Shaw once said that ‘conflict is the essence of drama’‚ and if that is true‚ then the plays Othello and A Streetcar Named Desire would thus be rife with drama‚ as conflict in inexorably presented by the two respective playwrights‚ Shakespeare and Williams‚ through the alienation of individuals from their societies. This creates constant conflict and friction
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