Astrophel and Stella

In the play "A Streetcar Named Desire" two of the main characters Blanche and Stanley persistently antagonize one another; their differences eventually evolve into the rape of Stella Dubois. Stanley is reality in the play; Stanley is shown as a manly, simple character that is charming to Stella and in some instances even to her sister Blanche. Blanche who had been care giver for a plethora of dying relatives at Belle Reve has been forced to sell the family plantation. Blanche is total opposite…

Gender Roles in a Streetcar Named Desire Tennesssee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of Blanche Dubois as she arrives in New Orleans to visit her sister. Throughout the play, we see her sanity diminish until her departure. In this play, the theme of gender roles is explored through the representation of the male and female characters and through the symbol of the poker night. Williams shows the theme of gender roles through the characters and how they react to the different…

For both characters, their passions and desires dictate their actions throughout the play. Both Blanche and Stanley express their feelings passionately, causing a blurred line of reality. These qualities and disagreements reflect negatively upon Stella Kowalski as they rely on her as the scapegoat to express their hatred for the other. The backgrounds of both Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski differ greatly. Blanche DuBois is Stella’s sister. She is an English teacher, an occupation that is…

Blanche uses depression from her past life to make others feel sympathy for her. After Blanche reunites with Stella, they begin to talk and catch up with each other. Blanche tries right away to make Stella feel bad for her by saying, "You're all I've got in the world, and you're not glad to see me." (page 1543). By stating this, Blanche is trying to make Stella feel bad because Stella left her in Belle Reve after their parents had died. Blanche continues to pull sorrows while talking to Stanley…

in the play even found violence as a positive way in his relationship with Stella. Furthermore, it displays how dominant men is over women. The play effective shows domestic violence since most of the violence is at home and between spouses showing that husbands are more powerful than their wife if they intend to be. Firstly, between the relationship of Stanley and Stella the play shows how dominant Stanley is to Stella. “He heaves the package [the meat] at her. She cries out in protest but…

Sir Philip Sydney uses imagery to make the reader feel the pain that one experiences while awake and the urge to sleep. Sydney describes a scenario of metaphorical “fierce darts” being thrown at Astrophel by Despair (6). This invokes a sense of pain in the reader, as well as visual, and kinetic imagery. Sydney appeals to multiple senses in this instance to make the feeling of darts exaggerated, and provides a tone of pain and sorrow. This tone is set for the reader because the reader experiences…

purpose of this study was to search these effects in terms of poem’s theme, structure, aspects and some parts where poetry was influenced by renaissance in Elizabethan Age. The study analysed Shakespeare’s Sonnet XXLIII, Sir Philip Sidney’s Astrophel and Stella, and Sir Walter Raleig’s What is Our Life, so the study began with a discussion of poems in Elizabethan period and made a methodological analysis to find out how these influences are…

John Shakespeare and Mary Arden were parents to William Shakespeare. Shakespeare's birth date is not exactly known, but it is known that his birthday is celebrated on April 23 and died on April 23, 1616 William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway on November 27, 1582 at age of 18. They had their first daughter Susanna on May 26, 1583 soon later Anne giving birth to twins, Hamnet and Judith which were baptized on February 2, 1585. Shakespeare only son Hamnet died at the age of 11, in 1596 ("William…

to a problem, and then the sestet which provides a resolution to same (“Sonnet,” Wikipedia). William Shakespeare is one of the most widely known sonnet writers. Contemporaries of Shakespeare include: Sir Philip Sidney who penned sequences “Astrophel and Stella;” Edmund Spenser who wrote “The Faerie Queene;” and Michael Drayton who gave us “The Parting” (“Sonnet,” Wikipedia). “Sonnet 18,” according to Wikipedia, is one the most widely known of the 154 sonnets written by William Shakespeare.…