Task: Tennessee Williams uses very specific and detailed stage directions to indicate the emotions‚ thoughts and actions of his characters. Select a character from the play and discuss how his/her gestures and non-verbal behaviour serves to further reveal his/her personality traits. You might also add how his/her behaviour relates to the surroundings and cultural setting. The essay is based on Scenes 1 and 2. Word limit: 800 Tennessee Williams uses very specific and detailed stage directions
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Stanley creates a dark setting on the wedding night by smashing light bulbs to emphasize the romance. “Stanley’s always smashed things. Why‚ on our wedding night – soon as we came in here – he snatched off one of my slippers and rushed about the place smashing
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The play “streetcar named desire” written by Tennessee William in 1949‚ which was received the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1948. The play commenced on Broadway on December 3‚ 1947 in the Ethel Barrymore Theater. This play is about life of a woman in 19th century who could not come out of the fantasy to the real life that her self instinct and her surrounding creates extra problems in her life that makes her hide her historical and physical appearances and lied her sister and suitor. On the other
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‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ sees aristocratic Blanche Dubois unexpectedly arrive at her sister’s house under mysterious circumstances. Not only this but from the moment she arrives she seems to cleverly hide details of her past expanding the air of mystery which surrounds her. William’s cleverly weaves Blanche’s past into the narrative so as the play moves forward more and more aspects of her past are revealed‚ deepening our understanding of the real reasons that she has had to move in with Stella
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How is the character of Blanche presented in Scenes 1 and 2 in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’? In ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’‚ Tennessee Williams presents Blanche DuBois as an extremely multifaceted character who represents both old and idealist values in America. Appearances are deceiving‚ and this is clearly shown through the character of Blanche in the play‚ as she puts on a smug and arrogant front to conceal her fragile personality. To ‘blanche’ something is to ‘drain it of colour’ and thus the image
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of life in the world during present time. Vanity soon falls into a fantasy that settles in her mind as delusion. Her vanity gets in the way of her love life‚ leads her to tell lies and believe them‚ and ultimately leads to her rape carried out by Stanley and
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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 argued that Williams deliberately creates an ambiguous character to put the readers in a situation where their sympathy for her swings like a pendulum. The first‚ and in my own opinion‚ most important event in the play that
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When individuals disregard their freedom for the good of the whole‚ they are no longer considered individuals but products of conformity. Stanley Milgram‚ a Yale psychologist‚ engineered an experiment to test the ordinary person’s level of obedience. Many of Milgram’s colleagues admired his intricate experiment‚ and thought that he provided valid information on the complexity of obedience. One of his colleagues‚ Diana Baumrind‚ however‚ strongly disagreed with Milgram and has good reasons to criticize
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gracefully match Blanche’s movements and grace. Not only does the Polka music represent Blanche’s descent into insanity‚ but also tends to appear at moments when she is in a state of panic. Secondly‚ drunkenness is a major symbol throughout the play. Stanley states that “[one thing that] belongs on a poker table [is] whiskey” while Blanche lies and says “[she isn’t] accustomed to having more than one drink” (54).
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meet their objectives must address such tax structures. The term "wealth management" occurs as at least as early as 1933.[6] It came into more general use in the elite retail (or "Private Client") divisions of firms such as Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley (before the Dean Witter Reynolds merger of 1997)‚ to distinguish those divisions’ services from mass-market offerings‚ but since has spread throughout the financial-services industry. [7] that had formerly served just one family opened their doors
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