during the play: his aggressiveness‚ his love for Stella and also his rudeness and cruelty towards Blanche. Let’s begin by talking about the way Stanley’s aggressiveness affects the climax of the play. During scene three‚ while the boys were playing poker‚ Blanche and Stella come into the kitchen and‚ as a result‚ disrupt the games. This got Stanley very angry and violent . For this reason he got up and began attacking Stella. Here is a passage from that scene: “ Men:
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father. Paragraph 1: The plot of the story begins when 17 year old Lemon moves from town to town‚ state to state because Lemons mother‚ Stella runs away from her problems which are caused from her past failed relationships. Lemon has a baby on the way and the dad is a 27 year old guy that works in a tattoo shop. He doesn’t know she has his baby on the way because Stella and Lemon moved away. Lemon embarks on a trip to find her dad with her friend Emmy‚ but Emmy has no idea that the reason Lemon went
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Throughout A Streetcar Named Desire‚ Blanche’s personality and motives are expressed indirectly through her dialogue with other characters. When speaking to Eunice‚ Blanche hints at her history by saying that “they told [her] to take a street-car named Desire‚ and transfer to one called Cemeteries‚ and ride six blocks and get off at – Elysian Fields!” The fact that the street-car is named desire suggests that Blanche’s motives in her past were ruled by sexual desire. This sexual desire took her
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kitchen from outside‚ leaving the door open on the perpetual "blue music" around the corner.¡n In this scene‚ the blue piano reflects the loneness and emotional desire of Stanley. Although Stanley is Stella*s husband‚ he still cannot get into some parts of world which only belongs to Stella and Blanche. In some way‚ Stanley unconsciously wants to search some little secrets of them and to know about what kind of impression Blanche thinks him. The music expresses the emotional movement of Stanley
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conflict between old and new in Scene Two of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’? Williams presents the conflict between old and new in Scene Two in different ways‚ such as the manner in which Williams portrays the three characters Blanche‚ Stanley and Stella‚ as well the added tension through the structure of the scene‚ and finally in the stage directions. Through the use of these techniques‚ an atmosphere of tension is seen and felt by the audience‚ and the contrasts of the characters motifs are clearly
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traditions than her sister. Blanche was living in her fantasy world and not the real world. Blanche always need compliments were as Stella did not need them to make her feel good about herself. Blanche thought men were to always be gentlemen no matter what just like in the old days. Stella being the new kind of south women knew that men weren’t always gentlemen. Stella was like a yes women when it came to Stanley. She always took him back after he hit or hurt her. The old south was use to old traditions
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“A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams “Stella has embraced him with both arms‚ fiercely‚ and full in the view of Blanche. He laughs and clasps her head to him. Over her head he grins through the curtains at Blanche.” (Williams 73) A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams exemplifies the theme of a struggle to attain happiness. The play not only portrays this theme in its characters and setting‚ but through the literary devices of Foil‚ Imagery‚ and Intertextuality. Williams
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misinterpretation of her younger sister Stella-Ronda‚ opens the conflict that is going to arise throughout the story. “Stella-Rondo is exactly twelve months to the day younger than I am and for that reason she’s spoiled‚” (Welty46) shows only the beginning of this wall Sister is planning to build against her family. However‚ Sister being the narrator of the story makes her less reliable because of the bias and jealousy she gives off towards anything Stella-Rondo says or does. Even though “A Pair
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reality and appearance in the play tells the divergence of these two conflicting viewpoints. The characters of Stanley and Blanche signify the extravagances on the range of realism and fact‚ however the character of Stella is used to portray the median of these two types of being. Stella‚ like the countless bulk
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The Desire to Justify Cruelty When do we overlook malicious behavior? Is our emotional appeal to like a person enough for us to look past deliberate cruelty? Bound up in the play A Streetcar Named Desire is the fundamental question of how the characters are dialectically cruel and the ways they justify their desires. By means of a theme of cruelty when whiteness is evoked‚ author Tennessee Williams displays when we justify the actions of others to reinforce gender identities‚ and the emotions which
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