Blanche DuBois

temptations can cause old mistakes to reemerge. After Ms. Blanche DuBois journeys her pilgrimage from the lost Belle Reve plantation to the raffish Quarter in New Orleans, she endeavors to start fresh in a place away from home. Through Blanche 's many failed attempts to wash away her soiled past, Tennessee Williams suggests that a person can never have a completely new start in life. Throughout Williams ' play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche is constantly bathing and obsessing over…

Gender Roles in a Streetcar Named Desire Tennesssee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of Blanche Dubois as she arrives in New Orleans to visit her sister. Throughout the play, we see her sanity diminish until her departure. In this play, the theme of gender roles is explored through the representation of the male and female characters and through the symbol of the poker night. Williams shows the theme of gender roles through the characters and how they react to the different…

Tennessee William’s play “A Streetcar Named Desire” the character Blanche DuBois’s mental state deteriorates as the story progresses. During the play, several events in Blanche’s past are revealed. These events allow one to understand why Blanche acts the way she does, and why certain events affect her the way that they do. We should feel sorry for her because after analyzing her past and physiological problems she is the victim. Blanche grew up in a middle-class family but she lives her life…

Kowalski and Blanche DuBois, are inferior to Stanley Kowalski…

Mitch and his reaction to finding out about Blanche’s past. When he finds out he tells Blanche, “I don’t think I want to marry you anymore… you’re not clean enough to bring in the house with mother” (221). He slut-shames her, likening her to damaged goods, even though, up until now, he had been depicted as a nice and understanding guy. “You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be—you and me, Blanche?” (116). Mitch says this after hearing about Blanche’s dead husband and obviously…

Both famous American plays Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire can be efficiently compared based on their characters, settings, multiple themes , and many more common aspects. Along with differences there are great amounts of similarities that relate the plays each other. The settings of the plays assist in distributing demographic norms and significance in each play which lead them to be both compared and contrasted to one another. A suburban, poverty stricken neighborhood in New…

As the central character in A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois incorporates many aspects of the themes in the play. It is her arrival that sparks the series of events that alter the lives of the other primary characters. Blanche’s journey towards a breakdown that results in her succumbing to madness starts long before she arrives in the ironically named Elysian Fields. Upon her arrival, we are learn that she is from a world unlike the one she encounters on leaving the streetcar and…

having a wide variety of race, sex, and background in the city. The idea of tolerance is played with especially in the opening scenes. One piece of information to remember when considering the interactions between some characters is that Blanche and Stella DuBois both grew up Belle Reve, on a plantation in the South. The history of most plantations is widely known and studied, which doesn’t need to be repeated but the general message is that white and black people have had a difficult time…

of violence. Stanley Kowalski, the antagonist in the play A Streetcar Named Desire, is an absolute vulgar working class brute who because of his strength and ferocity feels he can do and say anything he wants to his wife Stella. Stella’s sister Blanche Dubois moves in which causes a great amount of tension in their house because she challenges and criticises Stanley and does not humor him the way that Stella does. Late in the play, during Blanche’s birthday dinner, Stanley loses his temper after…

In the controversial novel “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin the main character, Edna Pontellier, struggles with an internal conflict. Set in 1899, this novel follows Edna as she is vacationing with her family on an island in Grand Isle, Louisiana, and her arrival back home to New Orleans. Edna’s movement from Grand Isle to her home in the city forces her to explore the various ways in which she is expected to live her life. This internal conflict that Edna experiences throughout the novel is…