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    Blanche Dubious‚ appropriately dressed in white‚ is first introduced as a symbol of innocence and chastity. Aristocratic‚ refined‚ and sensitive‚ this delicate beauty has a moth-like appearance. She has come to New Orleans to seek refuge at the home of her sister Stella and her coarse Polish husband‚ Stanley. With her nervous and refined nature‚ Blanche is a clear misfit in the Kowalski’s apartment. <br> <br>Blanche represents a deep-seated attachment to the past. She has lived her whole life in

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    Based on my reading thus far‚ Blanche proves the most antagonistic characteristic. She is sister of Stella and came to meet her unexpectedly. She lost her husband few years earlier and she is a social pariah due to her indiscrete sexual behavior. She also seeks for people attention and wants them to complement her. She has bad drinking habit which she tries to hide from everyone. Blanche’s flirtatious behavior causes a lot of problems in Stella and Stanley life. Blanche displayed cunning‚ manipulative

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    Later that night Mitch‚ Stanley’s friend‚ wants to drop out of the poker game because his mother is sick. Stella and Blanche return from the show‚ and Blanche is introduced to the other players. When Stanley tells the ladies to disappear until the game is finished‚ Stella reminds him that it is 2:30 A.M. and time to quit. Stanley swats her rear and the sisters go into the other room‚ where Blanche meets Harold Mitchell coming from the bathroom. When he leaves‚ Blanche thinks that he looks more sensitive

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    without any reason‚ she did this on purpose to scare the government and also to make them pay for the decisions they had made. To conclude about the kind of the actions‚ which were done by Lytton‚ we can add what Janet Lyon remembers in her essay “As Temma Kaplan writes‚ “the street became the stage for this conflict”.” (Lyon‚ 1994-1995). This quotation shows that jail and streets were the places used by the Suffragettes to fight. They both had equal importance. But what is surprising about all of

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    To be insane is a state of mind that prevents normal perception‚ behavior‚ or social interaction. Stella Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire is perceived as a fragile young pregnant woman who is married to a drunkard named Stanley. Their relationship seems to be primarily based on their sexual desires for one another but maybe it goes beyond for Stella. In the play‚ Blanche‚ Stella’s sister‚ arrives at Stanley and Stella’s apartment out of the blue and asks to stay with them if they don’t mind.

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    illustrate the male dominance and influence that many females were bound to during the time. The two sister’s interactions with these goblin men combined with allusions to the original temptation‚ enlighten the reader to the existence of repressed sexual desires. In its acknowledgment of the male-dominated societal nature of Victorian England and a feminine sexual appetite‚ "Goblin Market" provides a subtly feminist text in a time when social contracts insisted on creating boundaries for women in the literary

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    Visual Analysis of Young Man Desires Position Upon walking into a room in the upstairs of the Swope Art Museum‚ the first piece that stands out is a large painting by Gordon Samstag‚ titled Young Man Desires Position. The painting was done in the 1930’s and was done with oil on a canvas that measures 50 ¼ by 47 ¼ inches. The lighting in the gallery isn’t exceptionally bright‚ but there is a light shining onto the top right of the piece. This compliments the artist’s rendition of value on the

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    In addition‚ another character that Wharton uses to show the conflict between social duty and individual desire is May Wellan. From the beginning to the end of the novel‚ May Welland’s behavior always proves that she follows the society‚ as “In New York’s eyes‚ May is the “Nice Girl”‚ the Angel and Diana of public statuary. Seen from the male club box‚ everything about her signals purity - an “innocence” which licenses her appeal and guarantees the survival of the family” (Bell 30). In the beginning

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    ‘Liberalism is defined by the desire to minimise the role of the state.’ Discuss (45 marks) There are two types of Liberals; Classical‚ who want to minimise the state’s role‚ and Modern liberals who want a more involved state. Classical liberals want a limited state because they support negative freedom‚ as they believe it has; created a dependency culture‚ a potential nanny state‚ and cause damage to the economy. However‚ modern liberals want a more involved state because it increases the level

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    The final outcome claimed the victory of pragmatics‚ in other words‚ the failure of fantasy whose representative was Blanche. She was an idealist and romanticist proven by her saying‚ “I don’t want realism‚ I want magic” (Act I‚ Scene 9). Due to her first homosexual lover and the decline of her family in early years‚ she dissatisfied with the reality just as she disliked the naked light bulb which was “a rude remark or a vulgar action.”(Act I‚ scene 3) Thus‚ In order to keep the last dignity of a

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