Blanche

Ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir Speaker: Blanche speaking to Stella when looking out the window at the neighbourhood that Stella and Stanley live in. Origin: A line from Edgar Allan Poe’s 1847 poem “Ulalume.” Written during the year Poe lost his wife, Virginia Clemm. Significance: While Blanche was staring out the window she says to Stella, “Oh I’m not going to be hypocritical, I’m going to be honestly critical about it! Never, never, never in my worst dreams could I picture - Only Poe! Only Mr.…

about 7:30 am in the morning. Stella and Blanche are near Lake Pontchartrain out for a morning stroll. This is after Stanley has left for work. Stella has on a blue sundress with a white Sunday hat with a blue tie around the hat to match the color of her dress. Blanche has on a pink pants suit with a white rose on her hat. The area has a few runners come by throughout the play and some walking their dog as well.] STELLA: How was your trip sister? BLANCHE: I didn’t like it. Not one bit. I…

beginning of the scene, Blanche is taking a bath. Why? What is symbolic about this bath? Blanche is taking a bath after she had drank too much and is reminiscing after losing the Belle Rive. The symbolism the bath holds is that when a person takes a bath, they are trying to clean themselves. Blanche is attempting to clean herself of the past. This is the reason for Blanche bathing so often, to cleanse herself frequently of past encounters. 2. Why is Stella taking Blanche out for the evening?…

and scant differences between Blanche Dubois from ‘Streetcar named Desire’ and Jasmine from ‘Blue Jasmine’. In comparison to the movie Blanche, in her version towards the conflict of appearance…

Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire is the controversial play from Post-World War II America. In the play, the women, Stella, Blanche, and Eunice are victims of the patriarchal society. Stella is abused, physically and verbally, by Stanley, Blanche is ostracized for her promiscuity and then raped by Stanley, and Eunice is complacent and voiceless in the acts. Stanley is portrayed as handsome but is the “stereotypical American male” who believes himself to be above the women and without…

In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, the main character Blanche is on mission to find a stable place in life, but she has too many skeletons in her closet which prevents her from the telling truth. When she arrives at her sister’s apartment she realizes the living conditions are not the way she expected. Her brother in law Stanley, and sister Stella are used to these living conditions, but Blanche is standing in the way of the couple’s progression. In Arthur Miller’s Death of a…

throughout the play and is known for being abusive to women since he believes in the Napoleonic code. Tennessee Williams shows how the character Stanley abuses his power of Stella and Blanche by revealing that the violence progresses through the play as the women are more and more abused by the men. Blanche is an important character throughout the play as she is mentioned in all the scenes. As the readers, we know that Blanche's presence in the Kowalski’s household threatens Stanley’s…

dark to demonstrate the opposing characteristics, and power struggle between Stanley and Blanche. Throughout the play Stanley has embodied light as the unadulterated harsh reality, constantly passing his subjective judgements. From the moment Blanche enters his life he makes up his mind about her like it is second nature: “He sizes women up at a glance with sexual classification”(25). Stanley judges Blanche by his own criteria of sexual attraction. He doesn’t take in a cultured first…

For instance, Blanche sleeps with “a seventeen-year-old boy she’d gotten mixed up with” (122) whiles she is a high school English teacher. Since, she had the courage to sleep with her own student she had to know that she would one day pay the price for her hasty decisions and actions. Afterward, she decides to be entangled with army men for she believes they will marry her and provide her with protection. Women like Blanche needs to be raped because they do not have any…

bond between these two pieces of writing is that they both have a sympathetic, main character, who is so desperate for love that they will risk everything, even self-destruction, in order to obtain it. This becomes apparent when Both, Gatsby and Blanche deceive their confidantes and risk losing their trust, they…