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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know‚ My friends forsake me like a memory lost…” Compare the ways in which isolation or alienation from society are presented in any two of the texts you have studied. We witness cases of alienation in the texts The Scarlet Letter and A Streetcar Named Desire‚ which are presented mainly in the female protagonists Hester Prynne and Blanche DuBois. However‚ although both characters experience isolation from their respective societies‚ it is my contention that the causes for their isolation are different
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Scene Three – a pivotal scene * Initially the play was to be called “The Poker Party” Why? * Scene three cements Stanley’s identity as the villain * Scene three highlights the primal nature of Stanley and Stella’s relationship * Scene three illustrates Stanley’s domination over his friends as he makes all the decisions about the game * Scene three illustrates his friends devotion as they look after him tenderly when he is drunk * Scene three is when Stella first chooses
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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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AP English Literature – A Streetcar Named Desire Novels and plays often depict characters caught between colliding cultures – national‚ regional‚ ethnic‚ religious‚ institutional. Such collisions can call a character’s sense of identity into question. Select a novel or a play in which a character responds to such a cultural collision. Then write a well organized essay in which you describe the character’s response and explain its relevance to the work as a whole. “Home is where the heart lies”
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In Tennessee Williams‚ "Streetcar Named Desire" the character of Stella Kowalski could be described as a passive‚ empathetic‚ and docile. Stella exhibits these traits when she is constantly being abused by her husband‚ yet always seems to come back‚ she claims its love and always finds excuses for his behavior. For example‚ in scene four‚ Stella tells Blanche “Yes‚ you are Blanche. I know how it must have seemed to you and I’m awful sorry it had to happen‚ but it wasn’t anything as serious as you
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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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