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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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 sister
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Perspectives of Streetcar Streetcar is a play with many interpretations as John Bak’s survey of the critics illustrates ‘A play about post war F.D.R. America’ and Savran p.89 describes the 1940-50 American South with civilization in collapse with profound economic ‚social‚ and political reorientation. Another view is ‘A psychological study of a fragile mind‘s struggle to negotiate nostalgia with reality’. Kazan’s note book views Stanley as representing ‘the crude forces of violence‚ insensibility
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Debra J Chawner‚ To whom it may concern Ashley Charles is a man I have known all of his life. His mother and I were school friends and have remained close friends ever since‚ always living near enough to maintain regular contact. Because of this I have always had a close relationship with extended members of the family. I have always been Ashley’s hairdresser and enjoyed being able to talk freely with him‚ sharing his experiences and thoughts such as in recent years his passion
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Chapters 1‚ 2 and 5 [pages 99-104] Notes from The Allyn & Bacon Guide to Writing Closed-form writing consists of • An explicit thesis in the introduction that informs readers of the point of the entire essay • Unified and coherent paragraphs • Sustained development of that thesis without digressions Open-form prose consists of • No reduction to a single‚ summarizable thesis • The use of story or narrative as an organizing principle through which a point emerges
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Desire—The Viper in your mind By reading the short stories” A&P” and “The Lottery Ticker”‚ it is evident that both of them talk about the power and the negative effect of desire. In some situations‚ desire or emotional thoughts may impair people’s judgments‚ and even lead to some negative consequences. The character development in both stories highlights the power of desire and how desire makes people impetuous‚ They get influenced by the strong feeling deep down inside‚ For instance‚ in the
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Q. What does William’s depiction of Blanche and Stanley’s lives say about desire? The playwright has managed to set the subject for this play by emphasizing desire by the means of putting the very word in the title of the this play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire. The protagonist and the antagonist both pursue desire but do so in different ways thus it leads them down separate paths. For Blanche‚ the protagonist‚ desire has been something that she has witnessed through out life‚ first learning about it
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Desire is a multifaceted word with different formal meanings and varied effects on people. Effects are derived from diverse gender‚ community‚ age‚ background experiences with the word‚ and its different connotations. The most common implication is linked to sexuality because of its influence on self worth in our current American society. The formal definition of desirable is "worth having" but people can also define it as being attractive‚ pleasing‚ enviable‚ popular‚ advantageous‚ or arousing desire
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Although many essays written about A Streetcar Named Desire concerns the "social attitude and psychological constitutions of its characters‚"(61) and the author‚ Tennessee Williams’‚ purpose in using of symbolism and imagery‚ Leonard Quirino instead intents to examine and emphasize the use of symbolism and how Tennessee Williams uses it in order to construct his marvelous play‚ A Streetcar Named Desire. Instead of focusing in terms of its theatrical presentation‚ Quirino sets out to reveal how two
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A Streetcar Named Desire – Final Assessment 1. The title A Streetcar Named Desire holds both literal and figurative meaning. Blanche DuBois takes an actual streetcar named “Desire” to transport her to the home of her sister. Blanche is literally brought to the home of the Kowalski’s by “Desire‚” but she is also brought there by her very own desire. Blanche’s sexual intimacies held with many men has ruined her reputation and driven her out of her home town. Blanche is longing and wishing to start
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