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    To what extent is can the character of Blanche DuBois be regarded as a victim of circumstance or is she a perpetrator of her own downfall? The play The Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is about people who display cruelty and harshness in their treatment to others‚ especially those who are weaker and more vulnerable than themselves. The protagonist of the play‚ Blanche DuBois is portrayed to be both the victim and the victimiser of the play‚ causing the audience to sympathise with her

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    The character Blanche Dubois could be interpreted into many categories. Blanche comes to Stella and Stanley after her stint of being a prostitute. Blanche arrives at Stella and Stanley’s seeking refuge from the harsh world. The character Blanche Dubois could be interpreted into a victim in many ways‚ throughout this essay I will show how she is a victim and the counterarguments to show whether or not she is a victim. As I have found for each argument there is also a specific counterargument. Arguably

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    9E3 May 18‚ 2012 Final Research Paper: A Streetcar Named Desire Draft Blanche Dubois is a character in Tennessee William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire. She is a rather important person in the play‚ as the plot is largely centered on her and Stanley Kowalski. Her character is challenging and controversial because she has a shocking past but portrays herself to be a classy and sophisticated woman. Blanche arrives at her sister Stella’s apartment in New Orleans‚ Louisiana on a streetcar

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    Blanche DuBois – A Southern Belle as Victim of Systematic Oppression 1. Introduction “Just remember what Huey Long said - that every man’s a king- and I’m the king around here” QUELLE!! With this statement Stanley Kowalski‚ one of the protagonists in “A Streetcar Named Desire” a play published in 1947 by one of the most famous authors of the South Tennessee Williams‚ the character captures the critical issue at stake – the underprivileged and repressed role of women in American society at the

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    To a certain extent‚ I partially sympathies with Blanche DuBois. This disintegrated character goes through many painful experiences‚ some being the suicide of her young husband Alan Grey‚ her loneliness throughout the play‚ and when her only family member betrays her for desire. On the other hand‚ Blanche loses my sympathy at some events due to the numerous lies she has told throughout the play to many of the characters and the failed attempts of trying to break up Stanley and Stella. It could be

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    3.2.2 Blanche----A Fragile and hypocrisy Southern Belle Blanche is a controversial figure throughout the play‚ on one hand‚ brought up and educated in Southern culture‚ she has been used to embracing a certain order of custom and certain culture rules. She represents fantasy for her many outrageous attempts to elude herself‚ and she likewise represents the old South with only her manners and pretensions remaining after the foreclosure of her family plantation--Belle Reve. In the south‚ the lack

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    in the final scene‚ a sorrowful conclusion to the previously doomed fate of Blanche DuBois. Imagine living a lie‚ an illusion; afraid of coming out of the dark past and into the warm‚ bright light of present reality and the not-so-distant luminous future. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams‚ the eccentric protagonist Blanche manages to do just that. The play begins in New Orleans‚ where Blanche DuBois‚ a schoolteacher from Laurel‚ Mississippi‚ arrives at the apartment of her

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    Blanche Dubois Analysis

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    Blanche DuBois shows up in the first scene wearing white‚ the image of virtue and blamelessness. She is seen as a moth-like animal. She is fragile‚ refined‚ and delicate. She is refined and keen. She can’t stand a disgusting comment or an indecent activity. She would never enthusiastically hurt somebody. She doesn’t need authenticity; she inclines toward enchantment. She doesn’t generally come clean‚ however she tells "what should be truth." Yet she has carried on with an existence that would make

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    English 12H Blanche DuBois When the play begins‚ Blanche is a fallen woman in society’s eyes. Her family fortune and estate are gone she lost her young husband to suicide years earlier‚ and she is a social outcast due to her sexual behavior. She also has a bad drinking problem‚ which she doesn’t hide very well. Behind her facade of being high class‚ Blanche is an insecure individual who has been disowned by society. She is an aging Southern belle who lives in a state of panic about her fading

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    Tennessee Williams did a fine job of centering his play bill A Streetcar Named Desire‚ on the protagonist‚ Blanche DuBois. With that stated‚ and to answer the loaded question of who portrayed the most intriguing character from scenes 1-3‚ most assuredly‚ Blanche DuBois would have to be the only logical choice. Her introduction to the story sets the persona of her character. Through the vivid details of her wardrobe‚ in contrast to the setting of the story line and the over-dramatic‚ self-righteous

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