Fantasy v reality Remember: AO1 communicate clearly the knowledge‚ understanding and insight appropriate to literary study‚ using appropriate terminology and accurate and coherent written expression. DuBois World * “old south” mindset * Aging Southern belle who lives in a state of perpetual panic about her fading beauty * Beginning she was half sane‚ then contributing people drive her to insanity. * Loss of reality‚ represents fantasy * “The state of your life is nothing more
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truth from the start‚ so that every individual be accepted the way he or she is. The play A Streetcar Named Desire‚ written by author Tennessee Williams‚ one of the main characters is Stanley Kowalski. Stanley Kowalski lives with his amazing Wife Stella Kowalski in an amazing place in New Orleans called the French Quarter. Their marriage is bright‚ and pleasant. This is until Stella’s sister‚ Blanche‚ comes to live with her. This turns Stanley against his wife because he doesn’t agree with the things
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to visit her sister Stella. Blanche is in for a surprise when she meets Stella’s husband Stanley. From the moment the two meet‚ there is a bad feeling. A Streetcar Named Desire’s author is Tennessee Williams‚ who is from Columbia‚ Mississippi. Blanche and Stanley’s relationship is like an untamed fire because Stanley finds Blanche annoying‚ and Blanche finds Stanley rude. Blanche and Stanley do not get along throughout the time that Blanche is staying with Stanley and Stella. Both Stanley and Blanche
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Polack.” - Stanley Kowalski In “A Streetcar Named Desire” the clash of cultures between Stanley Kowalski and the two DuBois sisters‚ Stella and Blanche‚ becomes very noticeable in certain parts of the play. There is an evident contrast between the “Old” and the “New” America. Stanley is Polish and is part of the growing working class in 1950s USA‚ whereas Stella and Blanche have a history in the United States and belong to a more sophisticated class where most of what they own is inherited.
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means of self-defence‚ both against outside threats and against her own demons. Throughout the play‚ Blanche’s dependence on illusion is contrasted with Stanley’s steadfast realism‚ and in the end it is Stanley and his worldview that win. To survive‚ Stella must also resort to a kind of illusion‚ forcing herself to believe that Blanche’s accusations against Stanley are false so that she can continue living with her husband. One of the main ways Williams dramatises fantasy’s inability to overcome
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Coughing‚ gagging sounds are heard” (136). The full extent of Stanley’s viciousness reaches a climax of cruelty when he rapes Blanche on the night Stella is in the hospital giving birth. Stanley uses this unfathomable act of violation to utterly shatter Blanche‚ providing a death knell for whatever dignity she still maintained. Shortly after‚ Stella calls for a doctor to institutionalize Blanche because she “couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley”
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Without delay‚ the subject of alcohol in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire he illustrated this subject as refreshment‚ maintaining fictional reality and leading one onto the part of self-destruction. Stella sees alcohol mostly for a positive escape and as refreshment and to make a gathering and conversation more socially acquainted. “Blanche you sit down let me pour the drinks” (Williams 7) On the other hand‚ there is Blanche who perceives alcohol only as an escape from reality into her
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sexual orientation caused him to commit suicide. Lonely‚ she becomes a prostitute‚ who loses her teaching career when her sexual relationship with a teenager is found out. After the family plantation Belle Reve is lost‚ she turns to her little sister Stella‚ who lives in with her husband Stanley in a poor area of New Orleans. She is a very deluded character; She hides her past and fragility behind her Southern aristocrat clothes and manners and is very harsh and mean to Stanley‚ calling him “bestial”
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Stanley Kowalski. <br><br>Blanche visits the home of her sister‚ Stella‚ in New Orleans and that is when Stanley started picking at her‚ almost testing her. Before she had met Stanley‚ she told her sister of how their plantation had been lost due to the costs of paying for the funerals of many family members. There was not enough money for her to keep the plantation. While Blanche bathed after her arrival‚ Stanley came home. Stella had told him what had happened and he immediately insisted that Blanche
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to drive home the point‚ the family mansion is called "Belle Reve‚" or Beautiful Dream. The old life may have been something beautiful‚ but it is gone forever. Yet Blanche clings to pretensions of aristocracy. She is now as poor as Stanley and Stella‚ but she cannot help but look down on the humble Kowalski apartment. Stanley tells her that she’ll probably see him as "the unrefined type." The differences between them‚ however‚ are more complex and volatile than a matter of refinement.
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