Blanche DuBois

significant? The beginning of scene eleven is one of the most significant passages in Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire". In the aftermath of Blanche's rape, the audience is unsure what repercussions Blanche and Stanley may face and how the other characters will respond. In his final portrayal of Blanche, Williams creates sympathy for his fallen heroine and explores some of the play's key themes, examining his society and the problems it faces. In this passage, Williams explores one of…

as Tennessee Williams himself held in the stage directions at the beginning of the play: “This "Blue Piano" expresses the spirit of the life which goes on here.” (Williams 13). The Varsouviana polka o The Varsouviana polka is the music no one but Blanche can hear, which speaks volumes about her mental problems, all stemming from her husband’s suicide, engendered by her reaction to finding out about his sexual orientation…

Burnt-out theatre - The burnt out theatre repented the environment of the mentally ill patients and the lifestyle they are subjected to. As they are socially outcasted by the community in Melbourne, the patients are living beyond the same four walls, in which bores them where as entering a new routine excites the patients and enthuses them to get involved with the production. Arabian Phoenix -The women in the original version of Così Fan Tutte and the spin off version Cosi incorporate the…

beneath her vanity. Blanche associates bright light with both love and awakening: she describes falling in love as “suddenly turn[ing] a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow” (Williams 67). However, it also reveals the harshness of reality and she dims the lighting (with the paper lantern) to maintain an illusion of “magic” and present “what ought to be truth” (Williams 84). Blanche associates bright light with a time when her life truly was magical; Blanche was…

Blanche arrives in New Orleans after having lost her family's tobacco plantation, with nothing but a trunk of clothes and her sexual desire to call her own. When first arriving in New Orleans, her sister's husband Stanley attempts to treat Blanche as any gentleman would, however Blanche refuses to ablige by his rules, and as the plot of the play continues Stanley starts to take any power that Blanche has left, until she is empty of any and has become completely marginalized. Stanley contributes…

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 Laurel, Mississippi from his supply man. Blanche makes the…

own perception of herself falls apart slowly throughout the play, and eventually her overwhelming reality leads to her complete withdrawal from the real world. We begin to see Blanche unravel once her self perception is questioned by those around her; most obviously by Stanley. Stanley is very much the opposite of Blanche; he is grounded, practical, and bases his beliefs off of reality. In the play, he is constantly trying to reveal Blanche’s true identity and dissipate her fantasies; this is…

focus on the female sexuality aspect, specifically focusing on how societies expectations are influencing sexuality during the filming and how the characters use sexuality as a tool to control. Sexuality is represented through many forms, Stanley, Blanche and also Stella. Sexuality is represented through Stanley, who is symbolic of the male population, who is allowed to be openly sexual and dominant but Stanley uses this as a control “Stanley uses his sexuality and aggression to assert his…

The Street by Ann Petry is a novel that relays the difficult, chilling, and tragic story of Lutie Johnson and several others like her. Lutie Johnson is the protagonist a smart, cunning, ambitious, and independent woman; who sadly has not yet learned to read the signs and symbols of American culture with the disbelieving irony required by the conditions of her race and gender. At the opening of the novel, Lutie is intoxicated by such commonplace American images as Benjamin Franklin, self-made…

later learn that she was not always like this. Blanche was once a sweet gentle girl who fell in “love. All at once and much, much too completely” with a man whom she believed she would live with forever; but later finds her husband has cheated on her with “an older man who had been his friend for years.” Learning that her man of complete admiration had cheated on her was enough, but that it had also been an act so shameful in their time, was too much. Blanche cannot bear it, and makes a childish…