Blanche DuBois

Playwright Tennessee Williams was been on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi. After college, he moved to New Orleans, a city that would inspire much of his writings. Williams was predominantly raised by his mother and had a complicated relationship with his father a demanding salesman who preferred work instead of parenting. Williams’s childhood home was very tense which in turn gave him inspiration for his works. “I was not aware of how much vital energy had gone into struggle until the…

body image. In Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois feels the same pressure to look beautiful and young in the 1950’s that Americans feel today. The play begins with Blanche in a white dress in the French Quarter of New Orleans at her younger sister Stella’s house. Throughout the play Blanche struggles with finding a respectful man to love, while trying to convince Stella to leave her vulgar husband Stanley. Blanche finds love with the most respectable man in the French…

the characters named Blanche Dubois, and Stanley Kowalski. In which Stanley’s realism is there to contrast the absurdity of Blanche’s magical world, and in the end prevails above all…

they have in order to attain something that, during the moment, seems like the perfect solution to all of their problems. Jay Gatsby and Blanche Dubois in The Great Gatsby and A Streetcar Named Desire, respectfully, give away everything they have in order to attain what they believe to be the ultimate form of happiness: the American Dream. Jay Gatsby and Blanche Dubois were both consumed by the idea of the American Dream and were blinded to its reality, which inevitably resulted in failed…

person that Blanche turns to for aid is Shep Huntleigh, the oil millionaire. She claimed that Shep, “could do it, he could certainly do it!” (Williams). With this, Williams portrays Blanche’s desperation to lead a new life, but still depended on a man in her life to ensure that she was happy. She also looked for a new life in New Orleans through the character of Mitch, “I want to rest! I want to breath quietly again!” (Williams). Besides, Stella is also dependent on men, the same way as Blanche.…

watch as Blanche Dubois, the protagonist of the play, spirals downward into a deep darkness due to the haunting memories that she has of her past and through the painful events that…

Desire is Blanche DuBois. Now since you already know about her let me just get to the point, what are her most distinctive traits? I believe that she…

A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams and performed by La Boite Theatre Company, easily engages the audience in their successful attempt to relate to a contemporary audience. The audience followed Blanche DuBois as she tried to stay peacefully with her sister and her husband, Stanley. During her stay, she discovers secrets of domestic violence and pregnancy, and has her own secrets brought up by Stanley, resulting in a bitter end of rape and admittance into a mental institution…

audience learns that Blanche and Stella were brought up on a plantation and that Stanley and his friends are poor and uneducated. In the first scene the two families come together in a scruffy environment, it is therefore Blanche who must adjust to the situation. When Stanley exposes Blanche's past and when he rapes her, he turns her ‘upper-class’ upbringing (of which she is very proud) into something without any meaning. The conflict, therefore, is bigger than Stanley vs. Blanche or even male…

darker side, exploiting minorities for cheap labour and slavery. Although we observe both Blanche and Stella, our two female protagonists, as stemming from the traditional Southern Background, we soon learn that Stella has left the South and married a working class man in the Jazz city of New Orleans. Yet we still see remnants of the old South in Stella, although it is arguably personified by Blanche. Just as Blanche is a portrayal of the old South, it could be said that Stanley is a…