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    The story of Streetcar named Desire is a deeply musical where characters tend to expressed their mood or thoughts. The Polka music plays a big role in the play‚ both as mood setter and characterization. The Varsouviana polka is used by Tennessee Williams to highlight the themes of death. This music is specifically shown in Blanche as a character‚ meaning that when we hear the polka‚ we hear what is inside her mind. For example‚ when Blanche tells Mitch about Allan‚ his secret and his death. This

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    A Streetcar Named Desire In many modern day relationships between a man and a woman‚ there is usually a controlling figure that is dominant over the other. It may be women over man‚ man over women‚ or in what the true definition of a marriage is an equal partnership. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Stanley is clearly the more dominant figure over Stella. Throughout the play there are numerous examples of the power he possesses of her. Williams portrays Stella as a

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    A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee William Why do people want to live in a perfect world? Everyone wants to live in their own fantasy world because that is where all their dreams are able to come true. No one wants a world of grief and sorrow‚ since life should be lived to its fullest. So‚ when we are faced with agony‚ we must either make a choice between accepting it or hiding from it. In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams‚ the author mainly focuses on Blanche Dubois

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    Feminist critique on a street car named desire Although the play itself would have made huge strides in the feminist movement at the time the message behind the play brings out a crucial and relevant message to the audience today‚ and asks bigger questions to young people in a generation that questionably has made very few steps forward in the past few decades. It questions how gendered stereotyping controls our society and how little both sexes care to amend it in an apathetic civilisation. Blanche

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    Reader Response- “Streetcar Named Desire” Stella Kowalski is one of the main characters in the Tennessee William’s‚ “ A Streetcar Named Desire”. She is presented as a woman who has an older sister Blanch and a husband named Stanley. She is often overlooked in the play because of her husband Stanley and her sister Blanche are much more dynamic. However‚ Stella plays an important role that without her‚ Stanley and Blanche who are considered‚ as two major characters of the play throughout the story

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    In scene two Stanley says‚ "the Kowalskys and Dubois have different notions". Based on your reading of scene one and two‚ to what extent do you agree with this statement? Focus on one character A Streetcar Named Desire is a play founded on the premise of conflicting cultures. Blanche and Stanley‚ the main antagonists of the play‚ have been brought up to harbour and preserve extremely disparate notions‚ to such an extent that their incompatibility becomes a recurring theme within the story.

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    Blanche’s death speech plays a vital role in the development of the play “A Streetcar named Desire”. In the monologue the tension between Blanche and Stella comes to a zenith as Blanch explodes with rage as she expresses her jealousy-driven feelings to Stella. In doing so Blanche reveals much more‚ including her unstable mental state‚ her emotional reaction to the lost of Belle Reve‚ and most importantly her preoccupation with the theme of death. One of the roles of this excerpt is to provide the

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    Streetcar Named Desire & Mean Girls speech/essay: In every human relationship‚ there is some kind of power involved. It is the core of all human relationships. The power of seduction between a women and a man‚ the power of persuasion‚ the power of strength over weakness‚ the power that a parent holds over a child‚ power of wealth and social statues are just some different kinds of power which are adapted in own everyday lives. With friendship‚ comes decisions‚ which comes then with control

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    Summary: An analysis of some of the many symbols found in "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams‚ with the help of psychoanalytical theory. Williams’ expert use of these symbols helped him to convey the meaning of many characteristics of the protagonists in the play. It is very debatable nowadays how much psychology can influence an author or how much the author’s psychological features can influence his work. The creation of a character demands different kinds of information and the

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    Studies Task ONE- Performance Skills A Streetcar named Desire is a play both grimly naturalistic and poetically symbolic‚ written by playwright Tennessee Williams. It is set in New Orleans post the depression and World War II. The characters in A Streetcar Named Desire are trying to rebuild their lives in post-war America. Much of the characters and themes found in Williams’s dramas were derived from the playwright’s own life. Alcoholism‚ depression‚ desire‚ loneliness‚ and insanity were all included

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