Blanche of Lancaster

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…

Who is one that can break a curse? Stanley. From beginning to the end, the curse changes from valid to invalid. But that’s not all that changed. From unlucky to fortunate, desperate to accepting, and careless to considerate, Stanley changes internally with the help of Zero. In the beginning of the book, Stanley is careless, unlucky, and desperate. With the curse against Stanley, he is bound to have bad luck, but this time, “He’d just been at the wrong place at the wrong time.” (Sachar 7).…

supporting it. Throughout Tennessee Williams’ hit play, A Streetcar Named Desire, the marginalization of women, homosexuals, and the mentally unstable is a strong motif within the text. Individually, the characters of Stella Kowalski, Allan Grey, and Blanche DuBois represent these three marginalized social groups, respectively. Growing up as a symbol in itself of marginalization, Williams utilizes these three characters to emphasize the struggles of silenced social groups in the mid-1940s.…

student Blanche, having grown up in Belle Reve, is used to a totally different culture than to that of New Orleans. This can be shown when Blanche questions Stella and asks if the types of people in New Orleans are “heterogeneous-types?” By heterogeneous types, Blanche is referring to the diversity of class and race. Back in her hometown, people are typically…

Despite their polar opposite upbringings, Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire share similar qualities that cause them to frequently bump heads with each other. They dislike the same qualities in the other that they have in themselves. For both characters, their passions and desires dictate their actions throughout the play. Both Blanche and Stanley express their feelings passionately, causing a blurred line of reality. These qualities and…

"A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennesse Williams, Blanche Dubois is one that brings awareness to herself using her past life. From examining Blanche's depression, bad luck, and sensitivity, it is clear that Blanche Dubois draws sympathy from other in "A Streetcar Named Desire." Blanche uses depression from her past life to make others feel sympathy for her. After Blanche reunites with Stella, they begin to talk and catch up with each other. Blanche tries right away to make Stella feel bad for…

In the play Streetcar Named Desire, domestic violence is a major theme. The author shows how people in the community ignored domestic violence. Stanley Kowalski, one of the character in the play even found violence as a positive way in his relationship with Stella. Furthermore, it displays how dominant men is over women. The play effective shows domestic violence since most of the violence is at home and between spouses showing that husbands are more powerful than their wife if they intend to…

Women in aviation take an important role in women’s respect in the world. Amelia Earhart and Blanche Stuart Scott are two significant people who take part in women’s history of aviation. Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly across the Atlantic Ocean. Blanche Stuart Scott was the first woman to do a long distance flight and when she retired from flying she wrote and produced for the big five studios of Hollywood's golden age. Women’s role in aviation has been difficult for some but often…

“His deputy anointed in His sight, / Hath caused his death, the which if wrongfully, / Let heaven revenge, for I may never lift / An angry arm against his minister.” (1.2.38-41). This is the first concrete example of King Richard’s loss of power. John of Gaunt says to the Duchess of Gloucester that he refuses to exact revenge against Richard, even though Richard is probably behind the murder of his brother and her husband Gloucester, because Gaunt still believes that Richard was appointed to the…

order to return and reclaim his birthright. However, unlike Richard, Bolingbroke continues to demonstrate the highest respect and understanding of the law, as he argues “As I was banished, I was banished Duke of Herford; but as I come, I come from Lancaster”. In denying Bolingbroke his legacy Richard displays a flagrant disregard for the law of primogeniture, the very law “that sustains his rights to the throne. “For how art thou a king but by fair sequence and succession?” Initially York feels…