Quote Analysis Literary Features “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!” (Scene 1‚ Page 6) Sexual desires are a common interest several people tend to have and Blanche Dubois significantly portray and represents the theme of sexual intimacy in A Street Car Named Desire as Tennessee Williams uses allegory‚ allusion‚ symbolism‚ and foreshadow in order to demonstrate how do Blanche’s “trip” through
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objecthood of Minimal Art. Its human size‚ inspiration in people and nature‚ its hollow nature betray it as anthropomorphic‚ biomorphic. Its nature is theatrical. And‚ theater is profoundly hostile to art. Modernist painting (Kenneth Noland‚ Frank Stella)‚ for one‚ has to defeat theater. Its analysis of objecthood has to transcend the object to become pictorial‚ and true painting. In modernist sculpture‚ the juxtaposition of the parts‚ the syntax of the work creates a tension that goes beyond the
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Analysis of Major Characters Blanche DuBois When the play begins‚ Blanche is already a fallen woman in society’s eyes. Her family fortune and estate are gone‚ she lost her young husband to suicide years earlier‚ and she is a social pariah due to her indiscrete sexual behavior. She also has a bad drinking problem‚ which she covers up poorly. Behind her veneer of social snobbery and sexual propriety‚ Blanche is an insecure‚ dislocated individual. She is an aging Southern belle who lives in a state
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Georgi Vasilev English Philology 4th year/100304104 Part II - American Literature Topics: 2‚44‚55 SECTION ONE: GENERAL INTRODUCTION Among the most celebrated and enigmatic twentieth-century American writers‚ I choose J.D. Salinger as my main author because is best known for his first and only published novel The Catcher in the Rye‚ as well as for him being a short story master‚ a defining portrait of adolescent in postwar American society. The novel’s disaffected hero‚ Holden Caulfield
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The past for some can be filled with joyful memories and happiness while to others can stir up feeling of grief and sorrow and can be representative of all the mistakes made. These memories can be very influential on essentially every aspect of one’s life‚ from emotional stability to decision-making abilities. Tennessee Williams in his contemporary play‚ A Streetcar named Desire‚ shows the significance of the memories of the past in the life of a young female protagonist. Blanche Debois’ past memories
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Desire –theme question 5 “A streetcar named desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams “in 1947. Blanche Dubois is the central character who comes to New Orleans to live off her sister’s kindness after losing their family home because of her difficult past. Tennessee Williams 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
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representation ironically calls into question society’s decision to ostracize Blanche. Throughout the play‚ Blanche’s dependence on illusion is contrasted with Stanley’s resolute 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. Stanleys domination of everything around him shows
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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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Cold Comfort Farm By Stella Gibbons What was a main theme in the novel and how can it be applied to my lifestyle? Cold Comfort Farm is a novel centred around recently orphaned Flora Poste who goes to stay with her cousins living on a farm. I thought that a reoccurring theme in the novel was shown in the way in which Flora got people to look beyond their horizons and imagine a more realistic lifestyle. Thanks to Flora’s encouragement and manipulation the characters living at Cold Comfort Farm
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! Analysis of ‘Getty Tomb’ by Frank Stella! Walking through the galleries at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)‚ it was difficult to choose just one piece of art to analyze. However there was one particularly intriguing yet minimalist piece that stood apart from the rest. The piece was called Getty Tomb‚ by Frank Stella. It was an abstract; nonfigurative square canvas that was methodically covered with a series of flat unmodulated black rectangular bars‚ separated by thin white lines. After
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