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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led to the protagonist of the play having a harmartia. A tragic villain is a character‚ normally an antagonist that does not truly intend to be a villain. So in Stanley’s case‚ Stanley can be alleged as an tragic villain as he is violent towards to Stella‚ for paradigm hitting her and using animalistic behaviour towards other women‚ which was an example of a stereotypical male in the 1940’s as they wanted to be in have supremacy over women‚ conversely he is being aggressive because he is aggravated
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gay man who committed suicide‚ sexual relations with students‚ and an unending desire to be attractive. Stanley eventually rapes Blanche before she is committed to a mental institution when her sister Stella does not believe her story. The drama is set in “rat trap” apartment of Stanley and Stella Kowalski. The apartment’s only two rooms and exterior are visible to the audience. Located near the downtown bars‚ music can often be overheard during scenes. Williams famously portrays Southern Gothic
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STANLEY. Hey‚ there! Stella‚ Baby! [Stella comes out on the first floor landing‚ a gentle young woman about twenty-five‚ and of a background obviously quite different from her husband’s.] (13) This is the opening line from A Streetcar Named Desire‚ by Tennesee Williams‚ one of many differences in the first scene of the play compared to the film directed by Elia Kazan. The film was based off of the original play by Williams‚ which Kazan directed as well. This fact is most likely why the majority
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The symbolism of the bell signifying a fresh start‚ a true chance to have a clean slate and create your own destiny‚ was brilliant in my eyes. One of my favorite lines in the play was definitely when Bill said‚ "You have to hit these things at the right moment or it’s no good" (1121). "Sure Thing" by David Ives The Play "Sure Thing" from David Ives examines the endless variations of boy meet girl and the ensuing pick up lines. The central theme throughout the play displays a few varieties of
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Chalonna Sanford Professor Brown English 101 23 October 2014 Compare & Contrast In the painting‚ Brooklyn Bridge by Joseph Stella and the photo Brooklyn Bridge by Walker Evans a comparison of the two artistic figures‚ colors utilized‚ perception‚ painting verses film‚ and the mood each creates reveals that the oil on canvas that Joseph Stella is the more interesting presentation of the Brooklyn Bridge. The two artists portray the same subject in two totally different ways that change
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Patriarchal Society By Marcelle Rowbotham This essay concentrates on the portrayal of male heterosexual love within two sonnet sequences. I will be analysing Pamphilia to Amphilanthus by Mary Wroth‚ and Astrophil and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney. Pamphilia to Amphilanthus and Astrophil and Stella are cohesive in their themes of male hedonism‚ unpredictability and guile. At the time that these sonnets were written‚ females had very little power and influence in society; men were accepted as the more dominant
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rescuer. The protagonist‚ Blanche is a cultivated‚ intelligent‚ middle-age English teacher who comes to New Orleans to visit her sister‚ Stella and her husband Stanley. Her attitude to Stella and Stanley’s lifestyle is disdainful in contrast to their (the Du Bois sisters’) living conditions back in Laurel‚ Mississippi. Her attitude to the lifestyle of Stella and Stanley is disdainful‚ because there is a huge contrast between the sisters childhood‚ and the way they live in New Orleans. This disdain
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indicator of her fate later in the play. Williams portrays her as mentally unstable in a number of different ways. One of these ways is through her nervous‚ repetitive dialogue that is first shown in her meeting with Stella as she repeats “Stella‚ Stella‚ Stella‚ Stella oh Stella for star”. This has the effect of reflecting dramatic and erratic nature which is an indicator of her mental situation. Another way in which Williams shows Blanches mental state is through her constant‚ compulsive
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In A Streetcar Named Desire‚ several of the characters use illusion to make themselves more sociably acceptable. This is true especially for Blanche Du Bois. She will lie‚ or "elude" any chance she gets if it will make her look good. Stella uses the "illusion" of a happy marriage to make her life bearable. Some people such as Blanche would much rather live in a dream world of blissful ignorance than face the facts. On the contrary‚ Stanley is a business type of guy that thinks that false happiness
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