In the play A Streetcar Named Desire written by Tennessee Williams‚ there are two sisters‚ Blanche DuBois and Stella Kowalski‚ who couldn’t be more different from each other. Blanche is a melodramatic‚ mature‚ old-fashioned Southern belle; while Stella is understanding‚ content‚ and protective. A Streetcar Named Desire takes place in the 1950’s in New Orleans‚ Louisiana. It starts with Blanche DuBois going to visit her sister Stella from the South‚ who is a mature English teacher from Belle Reve
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insanity of Blanche‚ all to show uniquely human qualities. To say that Stanley is an animalistic and primitive being‚ would be stating the obvious. Being married to the naïve Stella‚ his virility is even more apparent than it would be with just Stanley alone. By using these two vitally different human natures‚ Williams is able to dictate the inner conflict each person battles‚ the constant battle between their virtuousness and their desires‚ in a microscoped perspective. Blanche has her own sort
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character that supports the goals of the protagonist‚ Blanche DuBois. However‚ in The Importance of Being Earnest‚ Lady Bracknell is the minor character that undermines the goals of the protagonist‚ Jack Worthing. In the Streetcar Named Desire‚ the protagonist‚ Blanche DuBois’ main goal is to make up her own illusionary world to escape the reality. “I don’t want realism. I want magic! Yes‚ yes magic! I try to give that to people”. Since Blanche is so delusional and needs to escape the reality of her
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QUESTIONS 1. Did Stella ever know that Stanley raped Blanche? If so‚ why didn’t she care? 2. Why was there no apparent difference between blacks and whites in the play‚ given the time period? 3. Does Blanche ever heal and go on to live a normal life on her own? CRITISISM From a feminist perspective‚ A Streetcar Named Desire is a work ready to be analyzed. The differences between men and women are especially prominent in the relationship between Stanley and Stella. The language and
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that often catches the attention of readers is the poker scene. It begins when Blanche and Stella return from seeing a show too early‚ not wanting to have been a distraction or a nuisance while the men played poker. Stanley rudely dismisses the ladies making sure they know they aren’t welcome to join in‚ the tension escalates as does the banter and Stanley whacks Stella’s thigh to end the discussion. Mitch and Blanche then meet for the first time as he exits the bathroom and they are both immediately
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Stanley Kowalski In “A Streetcar Named Desire” the clash of cultures between Stanley Kowalski and the two DuBois sisters‚ Stella and Blanche‚ becomes very noticeable in certain parts of the play. There is an evident contrast between the “Old” and the “New” America. Stanley is Polish and is part of the growing working class in 1950s USA‚ whereas Stella and Blanche have a history in the United States and belong to a more sophisticated class where most of what they own is inherited. Stanley Kowalski
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Play In Tennesse Williams’ A Street Car Named Desire‚ Williams sets up the character of Blanche as soon as she is introduced in the play. Her desire‚ her heartbreak‚ her downfall‚ and her extremely complex past are all foreshadowed in Blanch’s first lines of the play‚ “They told me to take a street-car named Desire‚ and transfer to one called Cemeteries‚ and ride six blocks and get off at—Elysian Fields!” (Blanche Du Bois‚ 6). The street-cars‚ desire and cemeteries‚ are symbolic to Blanche’s character
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picturesque French Quarter in New Orleans. The play starts when Blanche DuBois comes in New Orleans to visit her sister Stella after she lost the family plantation Belle-Reve because of money problems. She then meets her brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski‚ a World War II veteran. As soon as they meet each other‚ a mistrustful rivalry starts between them. A Streetcar Named Desire depicts the conflict between two opposing views as a poker game between Blanche and Stanley for control. From the beginning of the play
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Fantasy vs. Reality Blanche is sufficiently self-aware to know that she cannot survive in the world as it is. Reality is too harsh‚ so she must somehow create illusions that will allow her to maintain her delicate‚ fragile hold on life. “A woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion” (scene 2) she acknowledges to Stanley. Later in the story line when Mitch wants to switch the light on so that he can get a realistic look at her‚ she tells him that she does not want realism‚ she wants magic. When Mitch
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middle of Blanche and Stanley’s conflict‚ this is mainly because they both have continuous battles over who gets to have her love and affection. Stella is in the middle of this territorial battle‚ and is always presented in a situation in where she has to defend either her husband or sister. Williams establishes a contrast between them. For example‚ when Stella says‚ in Scene One‚ that ’the best I could do was make my own living‚ Blanche’‚ Williams
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