approval and affection from Stella. It is confirmed in the final poker scene that Stella betrays Blanche. Once Stella realizes that Blanche is accusing Stanley of rape‚ “I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley” (Williams 165). Stella is forced to choose between her sister or husband. Blanche’s lifestyle and behavior does not compete between the traditional gender roles establish during this time period. Therefore‚ Blanche is taken away and Mitch and Stella betray Blanche in her time
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raped‚ the character that raped her was Stanley. At the start of the play Stanley could be seen as a egalitarian hero for the story‚ some of the reasons that this could happen is because of the loyalty to his friends and passion he had for his wife ‚ Stella. He has a hatred towards Blanche once he begins to see what type of person she truly is‚ she can come off untrustworthy and attempts to fool everyone he knows into believing she is superior to them. Throughout the play‚ this hatred builds to a point
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women had to keep their virginity to have a chance to get married. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is placed in the picturesque French Quarter in New Orleans. The play starts when Blanche DuBois comes in New Orleans to visit her sister Stella after she lost the family plantation Belle-Reve because of money problems. She then meets her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski‚ a World War II veteran. As soon as they meet each other‚ a mistrustful rivalry starts between them. A Streetcar Named Desire
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of misery. Stella‚ a fourteen-year-old Jewish girl‚ is described as “Cold‚ cold‚ the coldness of hell” (Ozick 265). Stella is far too young to handle the never-ending march and becomes envious of Magda‚ an “Aryan” baby tucked away safely between Rosa’s breasts. “Stella wanted to be wrapped in a shawl‚ hidden away‚ asleep‚ rocked by the march”(Ozick 266). In this passage‚ the narrator uses symbolism to explain Stella’s consuming need for safety and warmth. The lack of cover on Stella also represents
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picture of a loving yet typical husband and wife duo in the 1940’s. They came from different classes but they love each other deeply. The husband runs his hold with an iron fist but openly cares for his wife. After slapping his wife‚ Stanley screams for Stella on the streets with no regard to others hearing him. Their love for each other can be felt on both side. The opposite is true in the poem After the Last Dynasty. Williams writes about a man who loves a woman‚ but the love is not returned. The poem
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reading this I was able to see how Blanche represented the South‚ and how Stella and especially Stanley in a way represented the‚ “New American Man and Woman.” Stanley represented the‚ “mans-man” and his character was very masculine. I feel that this story also represented the change in society from agriculture and plantation life to a more industrial life style. The way Blanche lived on Belle Reve was much different than how Stella and Stanley lived in New Orleans‚ but Belle Reve was gone and the‚ “Old
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for the play being set during the 1950’s. These contrasts allow for the conflicts to come seeming more appropriate as the environment suggests it. When Balance Dubois comes to stay with her sister Stella‚ she claims that their family mansion‚ Belle Reve‚ has been taken from them. When she tells Stella what has happened to it‚ she upholds the claim that she fought to keep it. “But you are the one that abandoned Belle Reve‚ not I! I stayed‚ and fought for it” (Williams 26). The name “Belle Reve” is
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‘What writers tend to demonstrate in texts which explore relationships between men and women‚ is that women have always been relatively powerless and the victims of society’s double standards’ Compare and contrast the extent to which this interpretation applies to your chosen three texts. Throughout Literature the role and position of women has been constantly one of debate and controversy. For centuries women have struggled to exert any power or individual identity through times of male dominance
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express and illustrate these different roles of power through the characters and stereotyping‚ dialogue‚ motifs and techniques. The main characters in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ are Blanche‚ Stanley and Stella. Blanche is from old world America. She moves to New Orleans with her sister Stella and her husband Stanley after she goes through a bad time in her life and losses her job along with her family house. Blanche has power over her sister‚ and she abuses this power. This is first demonstrated
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Chile. To me‚ this work of acrylic on canvas looks like the chaotic‚ colorful and electrically beautiful momentum during the earthquake. Stella uses lines to give a sense of depth to his piece. Throughout the whole piece‚ we see a pattern of similar squared shaped lines‚ circles‚ and rectangles so give an illusion of three dimensions. The majority of the work‚ Stella uses irregular lines which in this case‚ it was necessary since he is painting an earthquake after all. “Lines can also be irregular‚
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