more characters. In this play, the main tragic hero is of course Blanche Dubois. She is a very complex character. The main reason for her downfall is because of her past. She used to have everything! A beautiful house, lots of money, a husband, and her dignity! The roots of her disturbance lie in her early marriage. Blanche was once in love with a homosexual young man. He shot himself and ever since this crucial night Blanche has suffered from unendurable guilt and regret. After the deaths of…
play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Blanche DuBois desperately yearns for this connection but fails to find it. Her isolation will become her ultimate defeat in the aggressive, merciless world she simply is not fit for. In Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois’s failed search for connection illustrates the crucial balance between illusion and reality necessary to survive in a Darwinian world. Blanche DuBois has a beautiful dream of a perfect world. She is constantly…
The quote explains about Blanche and Stanley's pride of the difference between fantasy vs. reality. Blanche Dubois, is Stella's older sister. She is a high school English teacher in Laurel, Mississippi and is also in her 30s. She left her town and went to her sister's house in New Orleans. She hoped she can start a new life and leave her past at Laurel. Stella is married to a man name Stanley Kowalski, who is kind to his friends, loves Stella a lot, but dislikes Blanche. Throughout the play he is…
Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire shows the life of Blanche Dubois while she has a long-term stay with her sister and her brother-in-law. The play was put on stage during the late 1940’s and set in the suburban part of New Orleans, Louisiana. During this time many were rejoicing over the end of the Great Depression and wasting their new wealth on worthless goods. Only 2 years after the end of World War II and life slowly but surely transitioned back into the social norms. Men were seen…
by both material wealth and a male dominated society. In both Death of a Salesman and a Streetcar Named desire the main protagonist of the play, blanche dubois and Willy loman are both trapped in a illusion that are created by the effects of society, however these illusions that are created are used by their protagonists for separate reasons. Blanche uses the illusion as a deffence mechanism against those who suppress her in society while Willy simply is not fully consciously aware that he is even…