A Streetcar Named Desire

Welles perfectly sums up Blanche’s philosophy about life in A Streetcar Named Desire. Blanche DuBois is a young woman from a formerly rich southern family. Her life has been full of mistakes and tragedies that she can’t get over. She creates a fantasy life full of millionaires and expensive clothes in order to cope with it. Blanche attempts to make an “illusion” of a perfect life in order to feel less alone. In Williams’ A Streetcar named Desire, Blanche DuBois attempts to create a perfect…

She argues that the text of A Streetcar Named Desire has a central topos which is construction and constructedness (122). She says that gender and race h become an essential part of the construction of the characters, for example Blanche, and the problem of constructedness actually becomes a…

I read about the overall Hollywood glamour and epic scale of the production of Gone With the Wind. I learned about the massively successful on-screen adaptations of A Streetcar Named Desire and My Fair Lady. Finally, the movie that I thought was the most interesting to read about, Sunset Boulevard. This was the story of an unstable, aging, former silent film star. She was delusional and she believed that she hadn’t been forgotten…

My passion for English began when I first started reading and found myself asking "What makes a great book?" or "What makes an author remarkable?”. It wasn't until I read Ian McEwan's 'Atonement' that I finally found answers. I loved the idea that a story was being told by an undisclosed narrator who was only revealed at the end of the book. It made me question whether everything I had just read was what actually happened or whether it was made up by the narrator. I loved the idea that a novel…

It’s not a matter of expanding my musical exposure per se, but more of a matter of incorporating more styles and genres of music into my ‘musical diet’ such as more classical music such as that of Mozart rather than just that of Debussy, more specifically his most popular piece Claire de Lune. People are always talking about music, whether it is how it impacts their lives or how they just enjoy certain aspects or styles. However it’s more than just talking about what is my personal taste in…

a demanding salesman who preferred work instead of parenting. After college, he moved to New Orleans, a city that would inspire much of his writing. On March 31, 1945, his play, The Glass Menagerie, opened on Broadway and two years later A Streetcar Named Desire earned Williams his first Pulitzer Prize. Many of Williams' plays have been adapted to film starring screen greats like Marlon Brando and Elizabeth Taylor. Williams died in 1983. Williams described his childhood in Mississippi as…

younger demographic how talented she is. This did work in her favor because she became exceedingly popular with all ages after the show was aired. The creator, Ryan Murphy, said that a large reason why he chose Lange was because he saw her in A Streetcar Named Desire, and he absolutely loved the performance (“Jessica Lange” Wikipedia). She played Sister Jude, or Jude Martin, in the second season. Sister Jude became a nun in an insane asylum after having a rough car accident. She played Fiona…

Borrowing the genre of melodrama, Almodóvar’s award-winning film, All About My Mother (1999), features transgender and post-queer study of sexuality. Apart from presenting two pre-op transgenders, the film renders a variety of “abnormal” intimate relationships, including the protagonist, Manuela’s family without a father, Huma’s ultimately failed lesbian relationship with Nina, and the family formed at the end of the film, constituted by Manuela, Rosa’s baby, and queer girlfriends. These unusual…

On January 20th, 1961, war veteran, Pulitzer prize winner, and thirty-fifth president of the United States of America, John Fitzgerald Kennedy gave his Inaugural Address. An inaugural address is a combination between a ceremony where the new president is inducted into office and their first speech to the people as president. The first speech is supposed to inform the people of their intentions as a leader of the country. Kennedy’s speech was filled with strong and poetic but also simple language…

scene where he says "When you're slapped, you'll take it & like it" and slaps Joel Cairo. Bogart's Sam Spade is arguably the most ungenerous & masculine character until Marlon Brando gave that tour de force performance as Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar named Desire. In a way, even Sam Spade was not a complete film noir protagonist because he was always in control of the situation except for that one scene in which he is intoxicated. Even there I didn't felt that he could be harmed. Think about…