Blanche of Lancaster

In As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner, Darl was always perceived as mildly insane. He was able to know and understand things that he shouldn’t know. In “A Streetcar Named Desire,” by Tennessee Williams, Stella’s sister Blanche lied throughout the play in order to change the way she was perceived. She was also unable to keep her secrets and painful memories which led to her insanity. In As I Lay Dying and “A Streetcar Named Desire,” both Darl and Blanche’s levels of sanity decreased when they…

Streetcar Named Desire is a play about Blanche Dubois, moving in with her poorer sister after losing the family home to debt. Blanche, being of the upper class, is not used to the lower class lifestyle and ends up having a mental breaking after hurting…

to bed. At the end of the play, after Blanche tells her about Stanley attacking her, she chooses not to believe it. Stella is trapped in her marriage, because she allows it. She wants a fairytale ending with her husband and child, and decides to stay with him regardless of his…

disconnected world drives people to steadily move forward in their lives. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Blanche DuBois desperately yearns for this connection but fails to find it. Her isolation will become her ultimate defeat in the aggressive, merciless world she simply is not fit for. In Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois’s failed search for connection illustrates the crucial balance between illusion and reality necessary to survive in a…

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…

(Biography.com). The main characters in that play are Blanche Dubois, her younger sister Stella, and Stella’s husband Stanley Kowalski. Blanche Dubois has unexpectedly come to live with her sister because she has lost her job. In Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois is characterized as a liar, mentally unstable and having troubled relationships with men. Blanche Dubois lies about her life to escape reality. She tries to keep…

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…