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    DuBois and the crude‚ animalistic 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

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    with her invasion of the Kowalski household. Winchell points out that‚ “Not only does she install herself as an indefinite squatter in a two-room apartment; she does everything within her power to wreck the contented home life that had existed in that apartment. One can hardly blame Stanley for fighting back.” She places herself in the household‚ criticizing and trying to change the lifestyle of Stanley and Stella. In coming to Laurel‚ Blanche also attempts to alienate Stella‚ further threatening Stanley’s

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    A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee William Why do people want to live in a perfect world? Everyone wants to live in their own fantasy world because that is where all their dreams are able to come true. No one wants a world of grief and sorrow‚ since life should be lived to its fullest. So‚ when we are faced with agony‚ we must either make a choice between accepting it or hiding from it. In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams‚ the author mainly focuses on Blanche Dubois

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    The play “streetcar named desire” written by Tennessee William in 1949‚ which was received the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1948. The play commenced on Broadway on December 3‚ 1947 in the Ethel Barrymore Theater. This play is about life of a woman in 19th century who could not come out of the fantasy to the real life that her self instinct and her surrounding creates extra problems in her life that makes her hide her historical and physical appearances and lied her sister and suitor. On the other

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    Biff: “will you take that phony dream and burn it before something happens” Compare how the authors of Death of a salesman and “street car named desire explore the conflict between truth and illusion Truth and illusion are utilized in Tennessee Williams “Streetcar Named Desire” and Arthur Miller’s “Death of a salesman” through the use of the character; to lead the reader to a possible conclusion on the beliefs that went into the American dream that prompted people to work hard was that america

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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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    Stanley and Blanche. Even in Blanche’s own mind there are conflicts of truth and lies‚ reality and illusion‚ and by the end of the play‚ most of these conflicts have been resolved. At the beginning of the play‚ there is an equilibrium‚ Stanley and Stella have been living happily together in Elysian Fields‚ however the arrival of Blanche acts as a catalyst and immediately she begins to challenge their way of life with her values. Blanche represents the Old American South‚ she was well educated‚ appreciates

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    Williams did not depend on authenticity alone to depict reality. In A Streetcar Named Seek as in different plays‚ he adequately utilizes sensational gadgets to pass on and enhance implications. A large portion of the move of the play makes put in the Kowalskis’ condo‚ yet there is additionally activity in the road. This activity—the Mexican lady with "flores para los muertos" and the battle of the intoxicated and the whore—gives neighborhood shading as well as a critique on the principle activity. At the

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    The Strange Thing Called Love Despite the complexity of the sonnets that William Shakespeare and Sir Philip Sidney create‚ one is left with a feeling of total admiration for the rich language in each poem that forces its reader to pay very close attention to detail. The sonnets differ in the focus of metaphors for love and how this passion affects the poets; however‚ both of the poems intrigue their audience through their integration of ornate imagery in their portrayal of beauty and love. There

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    extent that their incompatibility becomes a recurring theme within the story. Indeed‚ their differing values and principles becomes the ultimate cause of antagonism‚ as it is their conflicting views that fuels the tension already brewing within the Kowalski household. Blanche‚ a woman disillusioned with the passing of youth and

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