Blanche

audience learns that Blanche and Stella were brought up on a plantation and that Stanley and his friends are poor and uneducated. In the first scene the two families come together in a scruffy environment, it is therefore Blanche who must adjust to the situation. When Stanley exposes Blanche's past and when he rapes her, he turns her ‘upper-class’ upbringing (of which she is very proud) into something without any meaning. The conflict, therefore, is bigger than Stanley vs. Blanche or even male…

In What Ever Happened To Baby Jane many of these aspects are in play. Blanche and Jane are sisters who both saw fame in their lifetime, Jane as a child star and Blanche as an actress later on in life. In the beginning of the film Blanche is in the shadows of Jane, and later on the roles are reversed. In their childhood Jane is the controller of the family, even her parents listen to her spoiled requests, in adulthood Blanche achieves more fame than Jane, and Jane is forgotten as a child star and…

species to Blanche because she wants her to know that he's is not like the Polcok stereotype. Stella also describes her husband the morning after the poker game. While she lies on her bed, Blanche quietly enters the house terrified. Blanche is relieved to find Stella well and unarmed but she was upset that Stella decided to return to Stanley after what he did. Stella then tells Blanche that she is making a issue of nothing and claims that she loves Stanley the way he is. She explains to Blanche…

the characters named Blanche Dubois, and Stanley Kowalski. In which Stanley’s realism is there to contrast the absurdity of Blanche’s magical world, and in the end prevails above all…

light. There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes that suggests a moth]” characterizing Blanche as a moth, a creature drawn to the light (Williams 15). This quote is contradictory within itself, describing Blanche as needing to both be near light, like a moth, but also to avoid light. Light is piercing, and can show one’s true nature; for Blanche, it represents her realistic image and appearance. She is aging and is becoming what society at the time considered to…

The characters of the play like Stanley, Blanche, Stella, and Mitch build's up to the aspect of feminism as we read on, which show the readers the way men are treating the women during the time period in which it is written.…

Desire Blanche rides into town on a streetcar named Desire, this is significance because throughout the entire play one can take that Blanche wants nothing more then the desire to believe that her life is intact, and that everything is ok. Blanche has a dark and secretive past though, and everything about her seams highly exaggerated as she tries to pretend that everything is nice and glorious. Throughout the later part of Blanche’s life she is struck with tragedy. As the play unfolds Blanche…

ways to define the word “camp”. In the movie “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?” directed by Robert Aldrich in 1962, two sisters in a love-hate relationship fight with each other. The term “Camp”, can be applied to the movie largely because Jane and Blanche both odd and different and. Surprisingly, Bette Davis did not win an Oscar for best actress as she convincingly portrayed one of the oddest characters in this movie. There are a few similarities between the essay and the movie. Sources define…

Williams and The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. The lead protagonists, Blanche Dubois and Jay Gatsby, in both texts put on a façade. Their illusive natures are depicted through their personal possessions (important literary symbols), mysterious pasts and even through literary devices that the authors use. Firstly, both protagonists own distinct possessions that conceal their…

A Streetcar Named Desire Rani Kobayashi Stella: Stella is the character that stands between the two personalities of Blanche and Stanley. She comes from the wealthy background of her sister, but chose to live the life of the working class with her husband Stanley. Stella does not have distinct traits that make her unique from others like Blanche and Stanley do. She prefers to do what makes other people happy, and rarely expresses her own opinion. This attitude reflects in her marriage which…