meaning of the piece. Comparing and contrasting characters such as Blanche DuBois‚ a typical Southern belle who is struggling to hold onto the dreams and mannerisms of the Old south and refusing to face of the reality of it all being over‚ and Stanley Kowalski‚ a working class brute who is representative of the emerging blue collar demographic in the newly industrious South‚ Williams uses the figurative death of America’s Old South to exemplify how the South is experiencing a demographic and cultural shift
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America ‚the difference of social status affecting how Blanche treats Stanley. Dear diary‚ Upon arriving at Elysian fields‚ the first thought that came to my mind: I must have taken the wrong streetcar! Oh how can this be where my dear sister‚ Stella‚ lives? After being brought up by the wealth of our great family‚ I had great expectations in my head! After the loss of belle reve - the struggling‚ all those deaths - I had to endure - it has made me as weak as the crumbling walls of an
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DuBios‚ Stanley Kowalski‚ and Stella Kowalski live different lives‚ but are all stuck within their own fantasy worlds. In this story‚ Williams shows that too much fantasy can lead to devastation. Blanche has been fired from her job as a school teacher for sleeping with a student. She has been kicked out of her town for being a prostitute. Blanche needs to feel young and secure. She ends up at her sister‚ Stella’s‚ home‚ lonely and full of lies. Because of all her made up stories‚ Stella does not believe
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the Kowalski household— Elysian Fields‚ dressed fancily. “She is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice‚ necklace and ear-rings of pearl‚ white gloves and hat‚ looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party in the garden district.” (p.3) This quote immediately shows us the difference between Blanch and the people from New Orleans by the type of clothes that they wear. Everything that she wears is white‚
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^^^^^^^^^^A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE: BLANCHE DUBOIS Blanche is an English teacher‚ but she’s one of a kind. You’d never forget her if you took her course. Shortly before the play begins‚ Blanche has lost her job. She wasn’t fired for poor teaching skills‚ however. The superintendent’s letter said Blanche was "morally unfit for her position." That’s probably a fair evaluation of a teacher who seduced one of the seventeen-year-old boys in her class. Also‚ Blanche’s sexual exploits so outraged the
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Conflict causes most of us a great degree of discomfort‚ anger‚ frustration‚ sadness‚ and pain. Conflict is a struggle between two or more forces that creates a tension that must be resolved (although in some stories‚ as in real life‚ it isn’t). Examples of different types of conflict include: - Cultural social class conflict. -Emotional conflict -Group conflict (racial) -Conflict with the
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chivalry to a new mind-set of sex and desire‚ and a woman grasping desperately at the last bit of fantasy she can muster. The structure of A Streetcar Named Desire is best seen through a series of confrontations between Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski. In the first scene the confrontation is not so severe‚ but it increases in severity until one of the two must be destroyed. To understand fully the scenes of confrontations‚ the reader should have a good understanding of what is at stake in each
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‘There is a fine line between reality and illusion’ How can we distinguish between reality and illusion? Is reality an illusion‚ or is an illusion simply reality? Albert Einstein once stated that ‘reality is merely an illusion‚ albeit a very persistent one’. The statement suggests that what we interpret to be real may well be an illusion and this is evidenced mainly through dreams and aspirations. For example if someone has dreamt of one day being a doctor their reality‚ which is described as
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the past and the world of the present-unwilling to let go of the past and unable‚ because of her character‚ to come to any sort of terms with the present. The final result is her destruction. This process began long before her clash with Stanley Kowalski. It started with the death of her young husband‚ a weak and perverted boy who committed suicide when she taunted him with her disgust at the discovery of his perversion. In retrospect‚ she knows that he was the only man she had ever loved‚ and from
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herself to be in a situation of living in illusion instead of reality. Williams’s addresses the importance of individuals who attempt to live unconstrained‚ through Blanche. Through her elusion 0f reality‚ her fantasy meets the inconvenience of Stanley Kowalski‚ who poses as reality. Through the ups and downs of fantasy attempting to prevail unrestricted in the presence of reality‚ the characters of the play
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