family from Arthur Miller’s The Crucible and The Dubois-Kowalski family from Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire both demonstrate that it is imperative for a family to have peace or otherwise a family would face the danger of tragedy. The Crucible imparts the significance of peace in the domestic setting through the moving tragedy of the Proctor family. In this play‚ the theme of desire is the catalyst for the family’s tragedy. Abigail Williams‚ a beautiful young girl‚ becomes sexually
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who brought Southern Gothic style to popularity. He conveyed realistic‚ broken characters to his audience‚ drawing inspiration to his own family. In 1947 A Streetcar Named Desire first appeared on the Broadway stage. In 1948 it had brought fame to Marlon Brando and won Williams a Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Within the drama‚ themes of beauty‚ desire‚ manipulation‚ and social class draw empathy for the manipulative Blanche. Tennessee Williams was born Thomas Lanier Williams on March 26‚ 1911‚ one of three
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In the book Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck and the play "The Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams‚ the relationships between the protagonists deteriorate over the course of time due to the society’s viewpoint on the troubled protagonist. George’s perspective of Lenny changes in a negative sense as does Stella’s outlook of Blanche. What starts out as friends or sisters‚ slowly turns into the destruction of the relationships and the abandonment of Lenny or Blanche. Lenny and Blanche are
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Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof both have dysfunctional family relationships in them. In Streetcar‚ you could see these dysfunctional family relationships in a few different places. The first area that this issue was present was in the relationship between the sisters Blanche and Stella. The dysfunctionality is obvious when Blanche showed up and was oblivious of Stella’s marriage. There is also a dysfunctionality relationship displayed in Cat. In Cat‚ there are a multitude of examples
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that will be discussed here. Tennessee Williams was a Modernist writer‚ most of his notable works being between 1940 and 1950. It is difficult to fully understand his works. Shirley Galloway’s analysis of characters in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is flawed and one-dimensional‚ and illustrates this difficulty. To understand Williams‚ one must first understand his life. His first place of employment was his father’s shoe factory. However‚ this was not to be his career. His mother encouraged
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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 to
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A Streetcar Named Desire Comprehension Scene 4 1) Stella tries to explain to Blanche her relationship with Stanley at the beginning of scene 4 and mentions that she was sort of thrilled’ by his violence. I think by this she means that she is quite taken in by Stanley’s display of animalistic behavior because it is so different from the type of environment in which she was brought up in. I believe that she tolerates all of Stanley’s behavior because for her it seems unique as she would never
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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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Drama Unit Socratic Seminar Questions Part 1: A Streetcar Named Desire 1. Blanche who is homeless‚ comes to her sister’s house at the beginning. Blanche had been a schoolteacher‚ married Allan‚ a man she later discovered to be gay. Her reactions to his sexual orientation caused him to commit suicide. Lonely‚ she becomes a prostitute‚ who loses her teaching career when her sexual relationship with a teenager is found out. After the family plantation Belle Reve is lost‚ she turns to her little sister
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Francisco after her million dollar lifestyle fell apart. As an attempt to move on and start a new life she gets a part time job and lies her way through potential love interests. Blue Jasmine‚ a modern adaptation of Tennesee Williams’ play "A Streetcar Named Desire" based the character of Jasmine French on conflicted Blanche Dubois. Many similarities appear through both movies. Both films present a woman with prosperous aspiration who goes through downfall as she needs the help of her lower middle class
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