A Streetcar Named Desire

and face. It is often hidden in the subconscious so that sometimes they forgot the shadow or unable it detects its existence. However, it brings a significant impact by surrounding in people thought every day and dominated one's life. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams depicts Blanche DuBois as someone who relies on a phony world of dreaming and imagination in order to find a good distraction from the cruel reality of life, revealing that it is human nature to avoid negativity and…

In the controversial novel “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin the main character, Edna Pontellier, struggles with an internal conflict. Set in 1899, this novel follows Edna as she is vacationing with her family on an island in Grand Isle, Louisiana, and her arrival back home to New Orleans. Edna’s movement from Grand Isle to her home in the city forces her to explore the various ways in which she is expected to live her life. This internal conflict that Edna experiences throughout the novel is…

Burnt-out theatre - The burnt out theatre repented the environment of the mentally ill patients and the lifestyle they are subjected to. As they are socially outcasted by the community in Melbourne, the patients are living beyond the same four walls, in which bores them where as entering a new routine excites the patients and enthuses them to get involved with the production. Arabian Phoenix -The women in the original version of Così Fan Tutte and the spin off version Cosi incorporate the…

The Street by Ann Petry is a novel that relays the difficult, chilling, and tragic story of Lutie Johnson and several others like her. Lutie Johnson is the protagonist a smart, cunning, ambitious, and independent woman; who sadly has not yet learned to read the signs and symbols of American culture with the disbelieving irony required by the conditions of her race and gender. At the opening of the novel, Lutie is intoxicated by such commonplace American images as Benjamin Franklin, self-made…

Blanche Dubois enters the lives of Stanley and Stella Kowalski when she arrives at their apartment at Elysian Fields. The beautiful and cultured Blanche clashes with the primitive Stanley. However, unlike the cultured Blanche first seen, the real Blanche is penniless and has a history with many men. When Stanley reveals Blanche’s impure past to everybody, Blanche struggles to continue and ends up in a mental facility. The deterioration of Blanche’s character is a result of her attempts to…

Although, Blanche Dubois was a southern belle born with a silver spoon in her mouth she had a hard life. Underneath her haughty disposition was a fragile human being, who became greatly affected by the tragedies she faced day to day. Her life was filled with tragedy and fear that altered her psyche completely. Blanche Dubois became insane. Blanche’s self-awareness meant that she was able cover up her mental illness. In spite of that, the music in the play exposed it, by being a reflection of…

One year ago we met the beautiful Josephine Fletcher, in ‘Possessing Josephine,’ along with her lover the high-powered attorney Richard Schreck in a stand-alone book. At the end of the story, Richard has persuaded her to move into his home on a sprawling ranch in Connecticut. This year we return to the New York suburb of Connecticut in ‘Josephine Revisited,’ where we find Josephine still living on the sprawling ranch with her lover, but hating her job as a real estate broker. Richard and…

“…Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.” “Desiree’s Baby” by Kate Chopin, is about a young woman and man, who falls in love with each other and gets married. Armand and Desiree have a child, but its skin color is not white. Desiree does not know her ethnicity nor does Armand, so he accuses her of being black and ruining his family name. I will be exploring how pride, love and race has affected the marriage of Armand and Desiree. All…

No man feels left out in the test of masculinity. The play, The Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller’s The Death of a Salesman have their male characters’ different perspectives on masculinity yet the same goal on proving they are masculine. Despite all the characters’ differences, they all want to fit into this idea of themselves being masculine to the point of incorporating it into their actions, words, achievements, goals, and frustration. Male characters like Mitch…

1. In terms of casting for Stella Kowalski, the actress would have to be young and gentle looking. She would also most likely be of average beauty. In the play Stella is described as, “…a gentle young woman, about twenty-five, and of a background obviously quite different from her husband” (1778). This meaning that her husband is rough looking while Stella is delicate and small. Another example of Stella being slightly delicate is how Blanche refers to her. Blanche calls her a “precious lamb”…