Belle Reve

the doctor on her arm, she has forever remained in this bittersweet, numbing quietness in comparison to the chaos experienced at Stanley’s house for so long. There is an internal chaos yet to be discovered. She now remains in an estate—much like Belle Reve. She is sitting in a rocking chair. The kind that squeaks ever few seconds upon leaning. She holds a journal on her lap, and a pen rose to her chin. Gazing out of the window, looking at the birds, wishing she could just breathe the fresh…

. a. Belle Reve is a representation of the "Old South" by its charm and the enjoyment of how life was for the Southern belles, Blanche and Stella, back then when they once lived there. Also, it represents the past of Blanche and is central to everyone's attention. b. Blanche's obsession with appearance represents the "Old South" by her trying to relive the past and reestablish her glamour of her youthful days. Her looks and image during the "Old South" gave her a social standing and now she…

As the story progresses into scene 2, the need for more information about Blanche becomes necessary for both the reader and for Stanley to form an opinion about her. The two characters have already begun their power play, each with the goal of gaining the dominance and control over the narrative of Blanche’s past. It is in these scenes as more of Blanche’s past is discovered that the shift of the protagonist begins to happen. Stanley learns of Blanche’s association with the Flamingo Hotel in…

recently lost both her job as a schoolteacher as well as their family home, the Belle Reve. Later on in the play, we also learn of the circumstances of her late husband’s death, as well as her experiences with the passing of multiple family members. Blanche’s character is one who relies on idealism, and coming from the high class background that she did, the collapse of her world affects her greatly. The loss of Belle Reve represents her fallen wealth and social status, and this is shown even…

When Mitch learns that Blanche’s southern belle attitude is artificial and finds out about her immoral past, Blanche begins to unwillingly travel on the streetcar named Cemeteries, the second stage in desire’s doomed trajectory. This becomes especially apparent when a blind Mexican woman comes to…

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…

When Blanche moves in Stella begins to attending to Blanche’s needs more than Stanley, this leads to conflict between Stanley and Stella. Blanche is seen as being this delicate and proper and set in her southern belle ways. She is fragile and yet condescending. The aging Southern belle, whose desires have cause her hardship. She claims that she has “old-fashioned” morals but has been promiscuous. Stella is motivated by her desire to please her husband, Stanley, and Blanche is motivated by…

worst than everyone else. Stanley didn’t like her attitude, but he was sexually attracted to her as well. Blanche is lost in a modern industrial society because in it she does not have a special position simply by virtue of being a southern woman. Belle Reve is her identification or authentication as a person, and without, she does not posses a self and therefore she must rely on others to supply stability, security, and substance(Smith-Howard and Heintzeiman). Even though she is staying with…

Scene two begins with Stella revealing to Stanley about her intentions for her and Blanche while he and his companions have the poker night. Stella has the belief that the drunken, animalistic, indecent poker night atmosphere is not suitable for Blanche, which is ironic as Blanche is seen to drink a lot more than Stanley in scene 1 this is automatically noted by Stanley and the process of suspicion starts taking place, thus deciding to take her to the “Galatoires for supper’. The class…

At the beginning of the scene, Blanche is taking a bath. Why? What is symbolic about this bath? Blanche is taking a bath after she had drank too much and is reminiscing after losing the Belle Rive. The symbolism the bath holds is that when a person takes a bath, they are trying to clean themselves. Blanche is attempting to clean herself of the past. This is the reason for Blanche bathing so often, to cleanse herself frequently of past encounters…