Astrophel and Stella

world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than this — kitchen — candle…” This line describes the love she lost and how her life hasn’t been the same since. After moving in with Stanley and Stella, Blanche began to look for a new man to take care of her. First, her eyes were set on Harold Mitchell, also known as Mitch. Out of Stanley’s gang of friends, he was the only one that she was seemingly attracted to. They began to go out, and…

The Fading Light The play A Streetcar Named Desire written by playwright Tennessee Williams intertwines with the life of Blanche DuBois. The main theme of the dramatic play mostly concerns that of Blanche, and the upmost tragedy. Blanche is seen as a woman stuck in a tragedy and living two identities between two different worlds. Blanche is feigning between the two very different worlds, the one of the past, and the present. She is a lonely and frightened soul, who consoles her life around…

much as Adele loves her. As family oriented as Adele is, it is hard for her to understand how Edna is able disregard her families needs as much as she does. Blanche, on the other hand, her closest friend in the play is her sister Stella. Her sister is aware that Stella is someone who is a mentally and emotionally unstable, something Blanche spends a good portion of the play trying to hide, and as an older sister she worries about her younger sister. But, even then she does not truly understand…

Stanislavski Konstantin Stanislavski was born on the 5th of January 1863 and he died at the age of 75 and that year was 7th of August 1938. He was born is Moscow and also died in the same city of Moscow and was buried at Novodevichy Cemetery. Stanislavski created a new way to preform acts and other parts of theatre, this way of theatre made its way all over the globe and is now one of the most used ways to preform acts at shows and other places. This new way of preforming was to make the…

but rather symbolizes a motif that links with the theme of the play. A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams presents Blanche Dubois, the embodiment of a typical Southern Belle: dainty, vain, and very feminine. After moving in with her sister Stella and her husband Stanley, Blanche finds herself caught in a spiral of alcoholism and stupor. The fallen and faded belle is prone to her frequent haunting memories and fantasy-like state-of-mind. While Williams utilizes repetition to represent…

Stella and Dewey Dell both chose to send their siblings away for different reasons. Dewey Dell chose to send Darl away because she didn’t want him to tell people that she was pregnant. Stella sent Blanche away because she didn’t want to face the reality that Stanley had raped Blanche and by calling her insane she could deny the rape. In both pieces…

After a date, Mitch says to Blanche, “You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be-you and me, Blanche?” (116). If Blanche were to have married Mitch she could have moved out of Stella and Stanley’s flat and the tension between her and Stanley would dissipate naturally from lack of contact. But if Stella were to marry Mitch she would have to resign herself down to a lower class lifestyle and she is unable to able to do that with her expectations of what society owes her for being…

Louisiana humidity, the steam of hot baths coming through the kitchen as you are trying to cool down in a two bedroom apartment, the loud sound of the downtown streets breaking through the windows, or even the spiral staircase that portrays the ionic “Stella!” scene. I never understood the truth of this play, until I was walking through New Orleans myself. There is honestly not enough adjectives to describe the lively, beautiful town. Tennessee Williams uses many stage directions to allow the…

When Blanche transferred from a streetcar named desire to a streetcar called cemeteries, her moth-soul finds the broken Darwinian environment. Blanche looks to Stella, her sister, and Stanley Kowalski for ideal love, but finds that similarly, their relationship is not perfect. Knowing that her sister is desperately looking for approval, Stella tells Stanley, “Admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful. That’s important with Blanche. Her little weakness! (Williams 31). Everyone around…

including A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Tin Roof. A Streetcar Named Desire, written in 1947, is the play that gave Williams his first Pulitzer Prize (Biography.com). The main characters in that play are Blanche Dubois, her younger sister Stella, and Stella’s husband Stanley Kowalski. Blanche Dubois has unexpectedly come to live with her sister because she has lost her job. In Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois is characterized as a liar, mentally…