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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We grow through exploring multiple realities Its 9pm on a Sunday and I can feel the first of the rain as its droplets catch on my outstretched palms. There’s something very humbling about the rain. It’s one of nature’s great forces‚ and completely escapes our control. When the rain comes‚ it doesn’t account for petty human drama‚ politics and cultural divisions. I ponder this thought as I round the bend and turn down the next street. The rain is a reminder that above all else‚ we are at the whim
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her gender or that she is a southern belle who is seen to be old fashioned in modern America and is victimized in her surroundings “Her appearance is incongruous to this setting”. The two characters are interconnected by their mutual loneliness and desire to be with someone to deflect their previously suffered emotional damage; “The girl’s dead now”. Though they both have similar experiences in life they deal with it with different attitudes. Blanche has to adapt herself to suit the environment in
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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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A child’s world is shaped by their parent’s reality. Jordan Djuric The birth of Prince George into the Royal family has created question on how a family who have rarely any privacy‚ could raise a child as normal as possible. The family could not even name George without approval from many others. But it brings up the question of‚ what is a “normal” upbringing anyway? If a normal upbringing is one which consists of two average paid parents‚ who live in a middle class suburban home‚ where they
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Use of Astrology and Names in SND The author’s use of Blanche and Stanley’s astrological signs and the meanings of their names helps to define their characters in “Streetcar Named Desire”. Stanley’s astrological sign is Capricorn which is the sign of the goat. Blanche’s sign is Virgo‚ the sign of the virgin. Appropriately‚ both signs are sex symbols. Virgo is the only zodiacal sign represented by a female. Virgo implies and stands for virginity. Sometimes thought of as an older woman
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To What Dramatic Effect Does the Playwright Make Use of Light and Sound? A Streetcar Named Desire is a play written by Tennessee Williams in 1947. Like in many other modern plays‚ here the playwright makes an extensive use of stage effects: the ideas are expressed not only through words‚ but also by sound‚ music and light. They are used to set the context and the mood of the scene – or of the play in general; to implicitly suggest an idea‚ an action; to show the feelings of a character‚ and to let
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In my literary analysis of “A Streetcar Named Desire‚” by Tennessee Williams‚ I narrowed the focus of my essay by finding a theme that is evident throughout the play. In order to do this‚ I reread the essay and reviewed my annotations. Once I discovered the symbolic theme of light versus dark‚ I highlighted every line that included it. Finally I looked at all of the quotes to see the bigger picture of how they are related‚ and wrote a working thesis based on my findings. I found that most of the
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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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