Blanche DuBois

Les Belles Soeurs, by Michel Tremblay is a play written in 1965 that addresses the issue of women socio economic constraints due to their language, greed and jealousy towards each other. The play is based on women working class struggles and the need to get wealth at any cost possible. Did you ever think of winning big? Well Germaine Lauzon a middle aged housewife in her forties certainly has and have boasted proudly about her winnings. She is a working class woman that is accustomed to a life…

uses the game of poker as the framework for his most well-known play, A Streetcar Named Desire (SNL). The whole play represents a metaphorical poker game, with Blanche and Stanley as the players, and Stella as the dealer. Stella, like all poker dealers, attempts to stay neutral; however, in this game, Stella is also the prize Stanley and Blanche are competing for. While the cards dealt at an actual poker game are playing cards, the cards that Stella deal are love, desire, and deceit. Throughout…

together in the final scenes with what Stanley did to Blanche and Blanche leaving to go to a mental institution. Through the progression of scenes of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, the final scene of the sensational story develops to be a very crucial scene due to the final insight of Blanche’s bathing, Blanche’s madness, and Stella’s illusion of reality. The first reason in which the final scene is significant…

to make it more appropriate. For example in scene two when Stanley was accusing Blanche of a scandal, the argument played a part in affecting the theme of the book. Instead of Stanley being the bad guy he was made out to be in the book, he seemed nice and sometimes seemed like he wanted Blanche there in the movie.…

Similarly, Blanche tried to adapt to society, but was faced with the rejection of society and her own family. Blanche DuBois travels to New Orleans to live with her sister, to run away from all the rumours and her past life back in Laurel. One night, Blanche questions Stella by asking and admitting, “Stella! What have you heard about me?... You haven’t heard any unkind gossip about me?... Honey, there was a good deal of talk in Laurel” (Williams 78).” Due to the fact that Blanche brought up this…

how Blanche refers to her. Blanche calls her a “precious lamb” (1781). Even though the name is endearing, it is a term most commonly used when speaking to small children or to babies as a lamb is very small and very delicate. The actress would also have to have a “radiant smile” (1784). So the actress would need to be young, gentle looking and is delicate in figure and in the way…

presence and is avoiding saying the wrong thing to her. Blanche, however, has no problem speaking her mind. She clearly expresses that she does not think her sister should be living in such conditions, for she lives a very “high-class” lifestyle. However, it is all a lie. Obviously, Blanche and her sister are not very close at all because Stella is the one person who was willing to reach out and help her sister in her hard times, but Blanche so easily lies to her sister and her fake personality…

often have excperinces that shape there future weather it be for the better or worse it could even cause someone to creat an alterante image of themselves just to appeare like nothing is wrong.One person that Blanche puts an act or acts differently around is her sister Stella. Stella and Blanche have grown up together so they have obviously spent lots of time with each other; however, because of this, Stella also knows…

Stella Kowalski character often overlooked in Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire. Throughout the play, the reader tends to become invested in Blanche and Stanley’s dominating roles, reducing Stella to the rivalry’s mediator. However, Stella’s development throughout the story is the deciding factor of Blanche’s inevitable fate. By the end of the play, Stella’s relationship to reality begins to crumble. Much like her sister, she begins to deny the truth, choosing the live in ignorance…

Play Response: The Divine Fallacy The concept of beauty has long been debated in books, films, social networks, and religion. Like the word “love” beauty is jammed packed with hidden meanings and purpose. There is a common belief that in order for something or someone to be beautiful they must be “perfect.” In Tina Howe’s The Divine Fallacy, she causes the audience to think about beauty in the not so beautiful, past the mundane cover of a painted face there is untapped beauty in the soul of…