Stanley Kowalski‚ and Stella Kowalski live different lives‚ but are all stuck within their own fantasy worlds. In this story‚ Williams shows that too much fantasy can lead to devastation. Blanche has been fired from her job as a school teacher for sleeping with a student. She has been kicked out of her town for being a prostitute. Blanche needs to feel young and secure. She ends up at her sister‚ Stella’s‚ home‚ lonely and full of lies. Because of all her made up stories‚ Stella does not believe it
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into a bubble of what can be considered feminine and is convinced by her own sub conscience and those around her that the only way to get what she wants is to act within certain stereotypes to find herself any man to provide the stability she craves‚ Stella alike takes the role in a less exaggerated manner but this in some ways is more powerful as she has the power over Stanley to conduct him as she wishes but herself deems it only acceptable to run back to him every time he calls. Self-destruction in
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the play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ there is a display of strange notions that occurs. Stanley had slapped his wife‚ Stella‚ and she had left him for the apartment above to be with Eunice. But not too long after‚ Stanley is at the bottom of these steps bellowing “Stella! Stella!”. Then Stella comes from inside of the apartment to look down upon him. They stare at each other‚ and Stella seductively comes down the
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blaming Stella for abandoning her back at the plantation home. While Stella thinks that Blanche is overreacting‚ Blanche is trying to express her true feelings of agony to Stella and how these events have affected her life for the worse. Quote #2 Speaker & Page: Blanche (Scene 4‚ bottom of 73) Quotation: “Yes you are‚ your fix is worse than mine is! Only you’re not being sensible about it. I’m going to do something. Get hold of myself and make myself a new life! Significance: While Stella seems
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Character and Plot in "Why I live in the P.O." Plot refers to the arrangement of the story’s actions. Any story starts with an introduction in other words an exposition. Let us take Cheever’s short story "The Country Husband". This story started by describing a main situation‚ which had a big influence on the rest of the story. It described the airplane crash experience‚ which the main character went into. After that‚ the author described the main character’s family‚ their relations and the way
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have support from a male counterpoint. From Stella leaving her plantation‚ to Blanche needing a steady stream of support from all the male characters she encounters‚ women are proven to have a need to feel supported and important by men. Stella leaves her plantation‚ with the knowledge that “The best [she] could was to make [her] own living.” And so Stella left the safety of her farm in order to make herself feel important and worthy of grandeur. Stella then marries herself to Stanley‚ someone to
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in Tennessee Williams play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire‚ the main characters display characteristics of both Power and weakness throughout the plot. The Main Characters Stanley‚ Stella and Blanche are constantly partaking in power plays where they experience dominant and submissive stances. Firstly I am going to discuss how Stella is depicted as both powerful and weak through her succumbing to balance and Stanley. Secondly I am going to explore how Blanche eludes strength in her manipulative skills but
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plays‚ the identity resemblance of characters from one play to the other is nothing short of astonishing. Moreover‚ one cannot help but feel that their personal identity correspond with those of the characters in these plays. Blanche Dubois with Iago‚ Stella Kowalski with Desdemona. Although the dissimilarities of their identities from other characters in their respective plays are unequivocal‚ when carefully examined in the aforementioned pairs‚ striking similarities tend to emerge. A Streetcar Named
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Class conflict is represented throughout the play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire in various ways through characters‚ symbols‚ ideas and language. Characters such as Blanche‚ Stella‚ Mitch and Stanley are used throughout the text to represent the upper and lower classes‚ as well as the conflict between the two classes. Symbols‚ ideas and language help to define the different classes as well as helping to represent the conflict between classes. The language (dialogue) of the characters‚ symbolic use of
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The Tragedy of the Holocaust Most individuals in society think of literature as just a simple story that the author creates. What most individuals don’t know is that authors have a meaning for writing literature‚ not just simply for pleasure. Most authors write literature to show a message to the audience whether it’s a personal story or a historical event. The author does this by providing the audience with visual image and emotion that is created throughout the story. In the short story “The
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