Preview

Blanche Monologue

Good Essays
Open Document
Open Document
557 Words
Grammar
Grammar
Plagiarism
Plagiarism
Writing
Writing
Score
Score
Blanche Monologue
Later, Blanche opens up to Mitch and tells him about her past with her ex husband. Stanley doesn’t stop snooping through Blanche’s things because he is determined to find out the truth behind Blanche. He soon finds out that Blanche didn’t leave her job like she told them she did. She was actually fired because she was involved sexually with a student. Stanley also discovered that Blanche was actually kicked out of Laurel because she was sexually involved with the local soldiers. Of course Stanley runs to Mitch and Stella and tells them about everything he found out. Later, Mitch confronts Blanche about her past. She says she was so lonely that she needed to be with men. Stanley comes back from the hospital and Blanche tells him that she’s leaving with her friend. He calls her a liar and starts to grab her and eventually, he rapes her.
In the end of the play, Blanche thinks she’s going to the country but she is really going to a mental institution. They go outside and Blanche sees that a doctor and nurse are waiting for her. At first she fights the nurse, but the doctor calms her down and she begins to trust him and they leave.
…show more content…
When Blanche and Stella get home from their night out, she meets Mitch and it doesn’t take long for her to begin pursing and frolic with him. In scene 2/3 Blanche flirts with Mitch, showing that she is feminine and sensual. She tried to make it seem harmless. They seem to really hit it off, and sexuality is the central reason of the relationship. However, Blanche and Mitch do not see one another as sexually as Stella and Stanley see each other. They want company and not to be lonely more than the

You May Also Find These Documents Helpful

  • Good Essays

    Williams’ characterization of Blanche as a character of many layers and different emotions is particularly evident in this scene as he presents her in different lights through different mediums. In this scene, Blanche is presented as afraid. This effect is achieved through Blanche’s actions, which are revealed to us by stage directions. “She looks fearfully after him” this explicitly unveils to the audience Blanche’s reaction to Mitch’s arrival as well as his attitude. The adverb “fearfully” adequately captures Blanche’s true feelings; passing across the idea of fear to the audience. In addition to this effect, the phrase “after him”, directs Blanche’s emotion to a particular person and the audience understands that Blanche’s reaction is due to Mitch’s presence. However, it isn’t just in one instance that we see this fearful response; the passage is littered with actions that give evidence of anxiety, reiterating the point that she does not feel secure. Actions such as her “frightened gasp” show her instability and insecurity, the word “frightened” shows her fear, while “gasp” present her surprise. The audiences is then able to…

    • 491 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Throughout the play, Blanche is living a lie and existing in a fantasy. Blanche DuBois, who is lost and confused, lies to herself through the entire play. At the beginning, Blanche lies to her sister, Stella, about taking a break from her school teaching job, when in reality, she has…

    • 768 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    When Blanche starts talking to Stella, she…

    • 583 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Blanche denies her purity. In scene seven, Stanley tells Stella that Blanche had worked at the Hotel Flamingo as a prostitute. We see from this that Blanche denied her past by lying to Mitch, saying that she had never been more than kissed by a man. We see that Blanche was lying when she said that she was taking a leave of absence from her high school career. Blanche actually had relations with a teenage boy. Obviously, Blanche is not pure and innocent. The way Blanche implies that she’s a virgin, talks softly, and wears white, are all ways that Blanche is denying her history as a…

    • 512 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    The character Blanche is quite a complex member of the play; you do not see a true representation of her until several scenes in. The two opening scenes show different sides to the character depending on whose company she is in. Having come from a good family with a “proper” upbringing, it can be said that she has led a somewhat sheltered life and therefore finds it hard to relate and sympathise other characters that did not experience the same quality of life. Her actions are impulsive, spontaneous and often she acts without thinking of the consequences; this makes it difficult for the audience to feel difficult toward her and can ultimately be traced back to the fact that she has little self-awareness. However, just as there are examples of other reasons that she is disliked by the audience and other characters, there are also examples of Blanche feeling and showing sympathy.…

    • 1266 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Once Mitch meets Blanche he instantly feels an attraction. Blanche, trying to seem like she still has some innocence, manages to convince him that she is not the kind of girl who easily falls into temptation and therefore causes Mitch to walk on eggshells around her. Mitch is constantly trying to find a balance between a sick mother, his best friends, and now his new girl. This stress added to Blanche’s constant back-and-forth flirting eventually wears him down. Then Stanley comes in and tells him that Blanche has been fooling him he refuses to believe it at first until he does his own research. Mitch shows his instability in scene nine when he says, “I don’t think I want to marry you any more. You’re not clean enough to bring in the house with my mother” (Williams 150). This amount of stress would cause anyone to be driven…

    • 298 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Blanche becomes more and more acquainted with one of Stanley’s friends, Mitch. The first time she meets him, she tells him, “I can’t stand a naked light bulb, any more than I can a rude remark or a vulgar action” (Williams 55). This was her justification for wanting her paper lantern put over the light bulb. The paper lantern assisted in alleviating the unhappy truth about her age, her tensions, and her situation. Smith-Howard and Heintzelman state, “...Blanche has an aversion to being viewed in bright light that will reveal her true age.” Blanche lies to Mitch about her age and prevents herself from being with him throughout the day and rather sees him during the evening or the night (Smith-Howard & Heintzelman). When they meet a second time, Blanche tells Mitch a part of her past. She tells him about a man, Allan Grey, that she used to be married to. She tells Mitch that she discovered love at a young age and at first it was like, “...you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in the shadow...then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again...” (Williams 95). Williams illustrates that Blanche was at one point in her life at ease and unafraid. After discovering that her husband was homosexual and telling him that he disgusted her, Allan committed suicide; as a result…

    • 1129 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Stanley looks past the fake front that people put on and focuses on what is real and ignores the “Hollywood glamour” and lies that surround them (39). Stanley does not want any deviation from what is known to be true and wants “no ifs, ands, or buts” (43). Deep down Stanley needs to unearth any falsehoods when anyone feeds him a “pack of lies” no matter how dark they are (118). Regardless of the awful truths of Blanche’s life, Stanley states the truth in the simplest sense, and he finally reveals Blanche is not “such a refined and particular girl” as he gives out her dark truths. He pushes away Blanche’s pleasant dream and posters the harsh truth of Blanche’s problems in plain sight so no one, not Mitch, Stella, or even Blanche can not miss it. Ultimately, Stanley feels no empathy for anyone, and digs up the lies and falsehoods that surround…

    • 794 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    She would later get run out of her home in Laurel after she became the disgrace of the town, town slut, and she loses her job after she attempts to have intimate relationships with her students. These two events leave her homeless and without a job, so in order to survive she decides to call on her younger sister, Stella, who is living in New Orleans with a war veteran. She believes that if she was to go and live with Stella, both Stella and Stanley would be happy to provide for her as she lives out the rest of her fantasies and possible finds herself a new man. She succeeds in finding a new man, Mitch, however, he later calls her a dirty slut that is not clean enough to bring into the house with his mother. Basically, Blanche got caught in her web of lies after she began attacking Stanley`s authority and out of spite he tipped of Mitch about Blanche`s true self and the Mitch dumps Blanche. This triggers an emotional breakdown, in which Blanches false hopes begin to come crashing down around her and in the end, Stanley decide to exert his dominance over her, which causes for Blanche to completely fall apart at the seams. Blanche is so emotionally distraught about what had happened to her that she gets sent away to a mental asylum so that she would finally be able to get the help she needed or at least live out her illusions away from everyone…

    • 1372 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Blanche Dubois Essay

    • 435 Words
    • 2 Pages

    In summary, Blanche forecasts a dainty but highbrow disposition throughout the story. She reveals partial truths in regards to the family fortune, her employment status and her love life. These partial truths are exactly what make her character so intriguing, not to mention the closing of scene three’s discussion with Mitch and the discovery that they both have lost a loved one. This is the second time Blanche addresses her widow status, however, at this point, fails to provide the details of this tragedy, leaving the audience with an unresolved yearning to discover what is going on with…

    • 435 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Blanche often fails to tell Mitch the truth about her past which he ignores and uses illusion by regarding Blanche as the perfect woman in order to escape her lies and false reality. In a criticism written by Joanne Woolway she states, "It appears that the connection in Blanche's past between violence and desire in some way contributes to the events within the time scale of the play." (292) This suggests that Blanche uses illusion to escape the bad memories of past violent relationships. “I guess it is just that I have old fashioned ideals! [She rolls her eyes, knowing he cannot see her face.]” (108) Blanche leads Mitch on by choosing to appear sexually naive, and this is apparent when she lies to Mitch about her past, adding to her facade. Mitch falls for Blanche’s charm which becomes evident when he says, “You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be- you and me, Blanche?” (116) He is blind to her deception and even defends Blanche when Stanley tells him the truth about her life and promiscuous relationships with men. Mitch is too consumed by her beauty and his fantasy of marrying a perfect woman to consider she is lying to…

    • 1287 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Better Essays
  • Good Essays

    Hello, Mr. Shep Huntleigh this is Blanche Dubois, I just wanted to write you to let you know how I have spent this amazing summer traveling all over the states. First of all, I had to get out of my large estate out in Mississippi; the maids and workmen almost drove me crazy. So I figured that a young and pure women like myself should get out and explore. I went down to New Orleans to pick up my sister, who was pregnant at the time, because she desired to get some fresh air, and see this beautiful world with me, so we went to my boat that I keep there. You should see my boat! A man with your wealth would love to be on my beauty-it is pearly white, lined with imported gold from africa. Little children were the ones who handled the gold lining because, as you know, a girl from wealth like me cannot bear to rest my eyes upon it if it has smudges. We decided to take the boat up to the big city in New York, and do what I do best: spending money. A girl like me just cannot seem to keep it longer than a couple days. You should have seen it when we arrived! All the people’s eyes were lying upon us,-hundreds and hundreds of people-but I enjoyed the attention all the same. So me and Stella went from store throwing money…

    • 666 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    Blanches dialogue, presents her ‘old world’ as being upper class, however we learn that this is all a lie. The poor grammar in her language as her lacking education is not consistent with her grand illusions of her world. Blanches question “How do I look?” emphasizes her pre occupation with sexuality, and her desire to be desired. “I tell what ought to be the truth” the use of exclamation emphasis her passion to defend her lies, her short sentence emphasizes her panic. The exposure of her sexual secrets reveals her eviction from Belle reeve ostracism from laurel and her expulsion from society by the end of the play as she becomes mentally ill. Blanche comes of as powerful women to the audience but as the play goes on we learn that she is far from…

    • 711 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Good Essays

    To support her escaping of reality, Mitch comes around. In the presence of Mitch, she is able to be happy, as she is now being able to hide her truth. Williams chooses to use a minor character such as Mitch as he is very much like Blanche, in the sense that he is very lonely and wanting to be with someone, regardless of who it is in order to avoid and to keep themselves distracted from their previous emotional pains. “You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be you and me, Blanche?” This emphasizes Mitch and Blanche’s neediness to be with someone as long as they are not lonely and are distracted from the happenings of the past.…

    • 1205 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Good Essays
  • Better Essays

    Blanche and Stanley come from two very different upbringings. Blanche comes from a very wealthy upbringing, being raised in a giant Southern plantation. Stanley grew up with the poor, immigrant family who had to work for everything they had. Blanche often uses the derogatory term ‘Pollack’ for describing Stanley to refer to him as common or inferior. She then contradicts herself when she says “We are French by extraction. Our first American ancestors were French Huguenots” (Williams 31). Blanche seems to think her ethnic origins make her better than others, and uses it as a point of pride. She often during the play is seen showing her self-proclaimed superiority towards all of the other characters. In the film, Blanche is attracted to Mitch because…

    • 1525 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Better Essays