Blanche

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…

superior gender, women were constantly undermined and expected to stay at home to raise their family rather than go out and pursue their own jobs or independent lifestyles. Throughout the play, the reader can observe the downfall of a character like Blanche DuBois who was nothing like the idealistic conservative female that society expected her to be. Living in the household of the aggressive Stanley Kowalski, who was used to controlling everything around him, her feelings of inferiority were…

Desire by Tennessee Williams encounter this role changes throughout the play and should be perceived as tragic figures considering their heroic virtues are insufficient to defend themselves from self-destruction contrary to simply tragic heroes. Blanche DuBois, a 30 year old High School English Teacher is forced to leave her job due to her strong sexual urges. She moves from Mississippi to New Orleans with her sister, Stella, and her husband, Stanley, after losing Belle Reeve,…

Besides the fact that Blanche and Stella are sisters, from the DuBois family. Their family was once part of the wealthy Southern aristocracy. When Blanche arrives at her sister, Stella’s apartment she looks down upon the small apartment and her working-class husband. Stella is content with her and Stanley’s life. Stella and Stanley have had a relationship strongly based in animalistic, emotional, and sexual chemistry. When Blanche moves in Stella begins to attending to Blanche’s needs more…

Throughout the play, we see the contrast between Blanche’s desire to live in her fantasy world and her reality. In scene nine of the play Blanche states, “I don’t want realism. I want magic! (Mitch laughs) Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misrepresent things to them. I don’t tell the truth, I tell what ought to be truth” (Williams, 145). In this quote, Blanche’s desire for her…

hysteria is Blanche Dubois; the protagonist of the Southern Gothic novel, A Streetcar Named Desire, composed by Tennessee Williams. It focuses on her recurring psychotic meltdowns as she suffers from the graveyard of her former self. She is an ocean and the sea who becomes…

” (Scene III, ll. 7). Emotionally distressed she and Blanche run to the upstairs room while Stanley cools down. Disappointingly, only after Stanley calls her name, Stella returns embracing Stanley lovingly. This is the primary instance where Stella has chosen to refuse the truth that her husband is a brute and allows her reality to be blinded by love and yearning for family. Additionally, near the end of the play after Stanley has raped Blanche, Stella’s decision to delude herself is heightened.…

first time is when Stanley says “Since when do you give me orders (I.ii).” after Stella told him to go outside while Blanche got dressed. Another example is when Mitch was trying to leave the poker game to get home to his sick mom and Stanley kept telling him “sit down” “deal the cards or quit (I.iii).” Another incident that shows Stanley’s fear of being out of control is when Blanche was listening to the radio he went and turned it off. After a few minutes passed she turned it back on and he…

with the main character being Blanche DuBois, an ex-elite, high class teacher who lost just about everything she had, save for her sister whose name is Stella Kowalski. Stella lives in a poorer part of New Orleans but does not seem to mind. So already we can see that Blanche and Stella come from the high class socialites but chose to go different ways. That’s just one of many prevailing themes that are present within the story. We can also see that within the story, Blanche suffers from mental…

Desire starts with Blanche arriving at her sisters, Stella’s apartment in New Orleans. She had arrived with all her belongs and some bad news. She had lost the Belle Reve, which was their families’ mansion. When Stanley and Blanche meet, it’s an automatic unsettling relationship between the two. Stanley thinks that she cheated Stella with the share of Bella Reve. Their relationship gets worse when Stanley gets too drunk while playing poker and beats Stella. This same night, Blanche meet Mitch.…