A Streetcar Named Desire

Play Response: The Divine Fallacy The concept of beauty has long been debated in books, films, social networks, and religion. Like the word “love” beauty is jammed packed with hidden meanings and purpose. There is a common belief that in order for something or someone to be beautiful they must be “perfect.” In Tina Howe’s The Divine Fallacy, she causes the audience to think about beauty in the not so beautiful, past the mundane cover of a painted face there is untapped beauty in the soul of…

our happiness is actually based on our self perception, whether we’d like to admit it or not. If we ourselves are not content with certain aspects of our identity, it can be difficult to find happiness our day to day lives. In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams, the character Blanche DuBois substitutes her fantasies as her reality. She uses these delusions as a refuge from an unpleasant reality, choosing her own perception of herself over the views of others. Although her…

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, is a book about two sisters, Blanche and Stella, and Stella’s husband, Stanley. The book opens with Blanche coming to live with Stella and dragging all her problems in with her. The time period it was written and set in, 1940’s to 1950’s, is reflected in some of the major issues it tackles like class. Blanche and Stella come from what was a well-off family while Stanley was the polar opposite. By the beginning of the book, Stella has given up her…

disguise any set with lights and shadows” - indeed you can, even with a paper lantern. It simply depends on what type of “set” one has. It might be a scene, a place or even a person, as in the case of A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams describes the main character in his play as a woman named Blanche DuBois, desperate to cover the truth of her real self. Although the constant strive of Blanche to maintain an impression of youth, purity and innocence in the night, her real guise…

to show the need for change within American society, one acts with rebellious behavior to portray their emotions. American literature illustrates the desire for change, in which characters act in rebellious manner to try and institute this. The correlation to the maintenance of innocence; a characters strive to achieve their purpose; and the desire to witness to change, manifest themselves into the characters deemed rebellious rejection of societal standards. Holden Caulfield is confronted with…

In the drama, "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, Williams uses the motif of lighting throughout the novel to develop the character of Blanche. The way Blanche reacts to light can be seen as her attempt to hide her true character, hide her vanishing youth and beauty, and attempt to avoid reality. Blanche hides in the darkness, and avoids the light, as a way to escape reality. This idea is represented when Mitch attempts to turn on the light, "I don't want realism. I want magic!…

Southern Values in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof "The weight of Southern history, the power of social and racial divisions and its rituals and taboos often make self-determination and moral choice unachievable" (King). This statement from Kimball King perfectly summarizes the point Tennessee Williams strove to exemplify in many of his works. Thomas Lanier Williams, better known as Tennessee Williams, was born on March 26, 1911 in Columbus Mississippi. He spent the first seven years of his life in…

Queen Wealtheow portrays the opposite side of that same coin, as she is anything but animalistic in nature, although she still has very little dialogue in the text. The first time readers actually hear her speak is when she bids Beowulf to “enjoy this drink, most generous lord / raise up your goblet” (1168-9). She functions only as a companion to her husband, King Hrothgar, and to present goblets of mead to important guests. Her distance from the events and main plot lends to her air of royalty…

August Strindberg in the play ‘Miss Julie’ communicates the complicated and conflicted mind of the character Miss Julie through her actions in the play. Despite her materialistic fortune, her parents’ absence throughout her life, her mother’s lies, and rejection of her as a girl & a daughter shapes her into an empty shell of a person. The story reveals her effort to escape the cipher of her being as she ‘uses’ Jean and in the end commits suicide, in order to not be a nothing even if it means to…

The episode “Celebration” from Knot’s Landing perfectly executes on the concept of TV serials using blocking and weaving to tell their story. Blocking and weaving is all about how the writers block the characters and their story, and then weave the characters into the other characters storylines. The story of the episode is all centered around Ciji’s big performance at the restaurant Daniel, unfortunately she doesn’t show up and we later discover that she is dead on the beach. This is the end of…