sonnet collection and portays an overarching theme of love. Sir Philip Sydney’s difficulties with love are shown in his collection of sonnets “Astrophil and Stella”. Both poets discuss the complications with love and the desire it creates. For example‚ in sonnet 1 Sydney has trouble conveying his love but hopes that through these sonnets she (Stella) will understand. Shakespeare’s sonnet 129 as well as Sydney sonnet 109 both mention the reason for their hardships with love: what is fueling their desire
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Without delay‚ the subject of alcohol in Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire he illustrated this subject as refreshment‚ maintaining fictional reality and leading one onto the part of self-destruction. Stella sees alcohol mostly for a positive escape and as refreshment and to make a gathering and conversation more socially acquainted. “Blanche you sit down let me pour the drinks” (Williams 7) On the other hand‚ there is Blanche who perceives alcohol only as an escape from reality into her
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express and illustrate these different roles of power through the characters and stereotyping‚ dialogue‚ motifs and techniques. The main characters in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ are Blanche‚ Stanley and Stella. Blanche is from old world America. She moves to New Orleans with her sister Stella and her husband Stanley after she goes through a bad time in her life and losses her job along with her family house. Blanche has power over her sister‚ and she abuses this power. This is first demonstrated
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women had to keep their virginity to have a chance to get married. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is placed in the 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
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instance of this occurs in the second scene. Blanche is bathing‚ whilst Stanley questions Stella about the loss of Belle Reve‚ referring to the so-called "Napoleonic code". As an audience‚ we sense the tension being created when he says "And I don’t like to be swindled." We see Stanley’s aggressive nature and his increasing anger towards Blanche through his actions and words‚ "Open your eyes to this stuff!" When Stella cries‚ "Don’t be such an idiot‚ Stanley"‚ he becomes even more enraged‚ "[he hurls the
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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. As the play unfolds and the past is revealed Blanche appears to struggle to keep herself mentally under control as the reality of her situation threatens to overcome her and it is this which leads to her eventual tragic downfall. The past is important
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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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her sister’s home‚ she asks Stella‚ her sister‚ what her husband is like. When Blanche meets Stanley‚ her sister’s husband which is also her brother-in-law she starts flirting with him. When Blanche steps out of her bath she begins
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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 the light bulbs with it.” (scene 4 page 64) Stella later states she was somewhat thrilled by Stanley’s action because she loved the resulting amorous darkness. However‚ light also plays an important role in defining the couple’s relationship. “I pulled you down off them columns and how you loved
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This play is about people who display cruelty and harshness in their treatment to others‚ especially those who are weak and vulnerable. Blanche Dubois is the central victim of mistreatment even though she had tried to make Stanley the victim. She displays her self as fragile and moth like‚ dealing out her share of insensitivities that happened during her younger days. Also because of her moth like image‚ the other characters see her as an easy target to knock down and use her insecurities against
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