A Streetcar Named Desire

love and longing, but perhaps he too often falls in love. However, he is not a seducer-freeloader and just his amorous nature pushes him to new, unfamiliar, fascinating love. Don Juan deftly penetrates into female hearts and thoughts, guessing their desires and feelings, and as soon as he manages to detect them it mean he has feelings. And while Casanova is rude and uses flattery to please himself, then Don Juan is a true gentleman who knows how to behave with women. He is extremely glamorous…

that particular scene symbolized the duality of Nicole’s personality. Initiated by Nick’s alleged assault, Mrs. Diver’s mental illness reappears. Rather than a cheerful wife and mother, who enjoys the life, she became a depressed woman, who needs help. Another time, when the color of Nicole’s clothing symbolizes sort of a contradiction, is in the scene at the beach on the Riviera: “The Divers went out to the beach with her white suit and his white trunks very white against the color of their…

Discussion Points: This play makes me upset. While I do enjoy reading it and watching clips of the movie in class, I find the patriarchal thinking and domestic abuse to be frustrating to read. I know the play was written during a different time period where these actions and thoughts were normal, however, I get frustrated with the characters as I read about them. I hope that at the end of the play, Stella is able to finally leave Stanley and his abusive tendencies and seek a new life with her…

[It is about 7:30 am in the morning. Stella and Blanche are near Lake Pontchartrain out for a morning stroll. This is after Stanley has left for work. Stella has on a blue sundress with a white Sunday hat with a blue tie around the hat to match the color of her dress. Blanche has on a pink pants suit with a white rose on her hat. The area has a few runners come by throughout the play and some walking their dog as well.] STELLA: How was your trip sister? BLANCHE: I didn’t like it. Not one bit.…

same/her date she asks if Mitch “want[ed] to sleep with [her] tonight?” (104) in French. As a result of speaking in a language that she knows Mitch can’t understand, she escapes possible rejection. Additionally, she uses it to hide her true thoughts and desires. She later tells him how she has “old fashioned ideals”, yet “rolls her eyes, knowing he cannot see her face” (108). Though she tells him what she believes…

The man is not insane, and should be given the complete punishment, since he is guilty for this crime. This man was aware of his surroundings and the actions he conducted. Also, he was very careful at the time of crime. He left no clues at the scene of crime, and he controlled his behavior when the detectives arrived at the old man’s house. So, he was sane enough to understand the appropriate actions to be taken. First of all, he was conscious about his surroundings. "Madmen know nothing. But…

In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, the main character Blanche is on mission to find a stable place in life, but she has too many skeletons in her closet which prevents her from the telling truth. When she arrives at her sister’s apartment she realizes the living conditions are not the way she expected. Her brother in law Stanley, and sister Stella are used to these living conditions, but Blanche is standing in the way of the couple’s progression. In Arthur Miller’s Death of a…

and difficult than illusion by magic and imagination. Having a reality has few consequences like showing their style or effort to achieve or be a better one. It’s a hard experience for someone to become imagination. As we learned from the Streetcar named Desire, the characters are using more illusion to ditch problems from others and escape reality. It’s hard for the characters like Blanche to tell the truth. As we seen in the play that Blanche was drinking would stop her nerves and increase…

A Streetcar named desire was written in 1947, a time period where the working class was rising, becoming more hardworking and working their way up from the bottom, the aristocracy, the upper class, were slowly but inevitably losing their higher status and were having to deal and live with people who were in a lower class than they were. The aristocratic societies were also shunned for being ignorant. Williams has introduced and portrayed the aristocratic women who are, Blanche and Stella in this…

a man is the dominant one in a situation or a relationship. A dominant male shows power and authority and is often the leader in a situation.” [1] In this drama, the theme of male dominance is one of the main themes present in the play “A streetcar named Desire” and it is mostly represented using the character of Stanley towards Blanche and her sister. The stage directions play a major role in the play, whereby we learn a lot more about the male dominance of Stanley in this play, for example…