Williams, the flowers help Blanche mask her aging, loss of purity, and beauty. In A Streetcar Named Desire, the flowers represent how Blanche wants to hold onto her youth. Throughout the play, Blanche tries to keep her youth through the use of flower print dresses. They represent being young and beautiful. Some words associated with flowers are gorgeous, lovely and dainty. These show Blanche’s mentality. She wears flower patterned dresses to alter the way people see her. Blanche does this to…
Streetcar Named Desire is evident within relationships of the play. Prominent scenes from the play include intense portrayals of violence, such as Stella being domestically abused by her husband Stanley, Blanche recalling the suicide of her past closeted boyfriend Allen and when Stanley rapes Blanche at the end of scene ten. However, physical abuse is not the extent of this key motif as Williams’ presents verbal and emotional violence as well. These are all further intensified by the stage…
do something which Blanche, who is threatening his role and interfering with his and Stella’s sex-based marriage. “God, honey, it’s gonna be sweet when we can make noise in the night they way that we used to and get the colored lights going with nobody’s sister behind the curtain to hear us” (133). Stanley wants Blanche out because she is interfering with their sex-based marriage, and without sex, their marriage will suffer. Stanley accomplishes this by raping and breaking Blanche to the point…
(Catherine, Eddie’s wife’s late sister’s daughter and Stanley, Blanche’s sister’s husband). Like Eddie, Blanche daintily drops hints that she is interested in her sister’s husband although at the start of the play we dismiss this as Blanche’s usual behavior as she has a tendency to flirt with anyone/everyone she comes…
Blanche Dubois is the protagonist of the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” written by Tennessee Williams. Her character is portrayed as a middle aged woman who is supposed to be a going crazy because she drowns in her own thoughts. Blanche is able to keep her thoughts together, but “ critic Anca Vlasopolos interprets Blanche’s downfall as a demonstration of William’s sympathy for her circumstances and a condemnation of the society that destroys her” (Blanche Dubois An Antihero). Blanche herself…
common. Stanley Kowalski, from Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire, certainly considers himself common, a fact he is both proud and ashamed of. He lives in a rougher city, where love is not always well understood. When his wife’s sister, Blanche, lives in his house for a while, Stanley is outraged and wants her gone, as she is everything he is not. Throughout the play, Stanley seems to dominate the scene with his loud presence. There are a few scenes of remorse, but he does not change…
Within the last hundred years, American women were given the right to vote. It was understood that a woman was more than the property of the male authorities in her life. She had just as much right to have her voice heard. Moreover, women now have the opportunity to make a living for themselves; they do not have to be dependent on men for survival. Society began to realize that women were capable of being more than a homemaker; that the idea of a woman wanting more from life than just being a…
Blanche Dubois enters the lives of Stanley and Stella Kowalski when she arrives at their apartment at Elysian Fields. The beautiful and cultured Blanche clashes with the primitive Stanley. However, unlike the cultured Blanche first seen, the real Blanche is penniless and has a history with many men. When Stanley reveals Blanche’s impure past to everybody, Blanche struggles to continue and ends up in a mental facility. The deterioration of Blanche’s character is a result of her attempts to…
Imagine being forced to be alone with the old reclusive and somewhat scary lady down the street. This is the situation that the Pip, the protagonist and narrator in Charles Dicken’s novel called Great Expectations, has to face. His sister forced him to go to see Miss Havisham, a mysterious lady from the upper class, and play with her at her house. In this passage Pip is seeing her for the first time. In this excerpt the lady is portrayed as a pure or even divine figure at first sight, but after…
Are Nora and Janie similar By Janie’s husband Tea Cake, died from rabies and was shot by Janie. Nora left her husband after he married her for her looks. Nora and Janie were treated badly in their marriages and both were trophy wives at one point in their stories, but there are differences between them. Nora is from the book A Doll’s House and Janie is from Their Eyes Were Watching God. Janie and Nora were very similar except for their realizations. They were both raised with more privilege…