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    Tennessee Williams is known for his powerfully written psychological dramas. Most of his works are set in the southern United States and they usually portray neurotic people who are victims of their own passions‚ frustrations‚ and loneliness. The play represents the conflict between the sensitive‚ neurotic Blanche DuBois and the crude‚ animalistic Stanley Kowalski. <br><br>Blanche visits the home of her sister‚ Stella‚ in New Orleans and that is when Stanley started picking at her‚ almost testing

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    To what extent do the Kowalskis and the DuBois represent a clash of cultures in “A Streetcar Named Desire”? “I am not a Polack. People from Poland are Poles‚ not Polacks. But what I am is a one hundred per cent American‚ born and raised in the greatest country on earth and proud as hell of it‚ so don’t ever call me a Polack.” - Stanley Kowalski In “A Streetcar Named Desire” the clash of cultures between Stanley Kowalski and the two DuBois sisters‚ Stella and Blanche‚ becomes very

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    Power for women in America in the 1950s was a different for women than in present day. The plays Fences by August Wilson and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams‚ examines two different women from different social classes and races. Despite these women having vastly different pasts‚ there are some similarities in the role they play in their families and marriages and the way their power is important to the storylines of the two plays in relation to the other characters. Stella and Rose

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    A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche and Stanley‚ two characters of Tenessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire‚ represent two very conflicting personalities. Stanley‚ Blanche’s sister Stella’s aggressive husband‚ portrays strong tones of anger‚ rage‚ and frustration. However‚ although his behavior is without a doubt over-bearing and rough‚ in a way he displays realism and truth as well. On the other hand‚ the play’s true protagonist Blanche exerts enthusiasm‚ spunk‚ and elaborate nostalgia. These

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    A Streetcar Named Desire Symbolism is an important literary device used to give the reader an understanding of a character. Tennessee Williams‚ with the use of symbolism‚ brings his character’s alive in his play‚ A Streetcar name desire. In the story the reader follows a young southern woman by the name of Blanche Dubois as she moves to New Orleans to live with her sister‚ Stella‚ and her brother-in-law‚ Stanley. From there the reader slowly sees the Blanche’s descent into madness as she begins

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    The Amazing Dichotomies of "A Streetcar Named Desire" Light and dark‚ kindness and cruelty‚ realism and fantasy‚ all of them dichotomies used by Tennessee Williams in A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams uses many dichotomies‚ clear cut divisions‚ to illustrate main points. The most prominent dichotomy is the sweet and fragile Blanche opposed to the cruel and savage Stanley. The play also highlights other dichotomies such as strong and delicate‚ hidden and open‚ and purity and filth. Basically

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    After watching the 1951 film of A Streetcar Named Desire the scene began with a lady named Blanche DuBois who gets on a train and ends up at a location she is not familiar with asking for help to where her sister lives. Watching the film‚ I notice that when Blanche DuBois arrives it is dark and not that many people are outside besides two ladies who help her in telling Blanche DuBois where her sister is. Blanche DuBois walks around the streets in very nice clothing‚ talks and gives off gestures that

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    Critique of the movie ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) was a play by Tennessee Williams who also wrote the play The Glass Menagerie. It was a film of anger‚ loneliness‚ and shame. Every actor in the film made his or her own brilliant performance. The director was Elia Kazan who also directed movies like On the Waterfront‚ Splendor in the Grass‚ and East of Eden. The film stared Vivien Leigh as Blanche DuBois‚ Marlon Brando as Stanley Kowalski‚ Kim Hunter as Stella Kowalski

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    [The lights are dim‚ slowly turning on. The polka is playing now‚ but out of tune and deflated. On the stage‚ we see Blanche‚ looking like a trapped animal sitting at Mitch’s spot at the poker table. A door opens from Stanley and Stella’s bedroom as we see Stella. The two look sullen as they exchange eye-contact] STELLA: If I had half a mind‚ little sister… BLANCHE: Oh indeed. Sometimes I even wonder if you have a mind at all! Or a heart! Maybe your brute of a husband has rubbed off on you? STELLA:

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    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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