Blanche

go insane. Her best friend, Blanche Cooke, arrives and only stirs up more drama. A Doctor comes by and goes through a therapy session with her, Elaine asks to see more of the Doctor because she feels the therapy helped her out. Elaine is about to leave to go to a different country to see the Doctor but has a mental breakdown. She accuses John and Blanche of having an affair then kills them both. At the end, it turned out Elaine just set this up to catch Joan and Blanche in the act. The acting…

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Chosen Quote Respond and Analyze “After all, a woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion” This quote goes back to the idea of Blanche Dubois being stuck in a fantasy world and how she has the need to be desired. She says this Eugene. The journey that Blanche described when she is in the streetcar. It is clear that Williams used goes into a deeper meaning that with research I was able to interpret. Going back to research the name of Stanley…

hard experience for someone to become imagination. As we learned from the Streetcar named Desire, the characters are using more illusion to ditch problems from others and escape reality. It’s hard for the characters like Blanche to tell the truth. As we seen in the play that Blanche was drinking would stop her nerves and increase her imagination. Since her fantasy calm her down, she doesn’t want to use her reality. By proving this, I don’t want realism. I want magic. Yes, yes magic! I try to…

Similarly in A Streetcar Named Desire one of the main characters Blanche Dubois has the same problem with being delusional. She goes and meets her sister Stella and begins to fabricate a story about what has happened to her. She tries to go about finding love by telling Stella, Stanley and countless men lies about her past. When Blanche arrives at Stella’s house she is talking to Stanley and he asks her if…

exposition of Streetcar, Blanche is being introduced to the audience with an expression of “shocked disbelief” as well as clothes that are “incongruous” to the setting of New Orleans, wearing a “white suit” with “pearl” jewelry as well as “white gloves and hat”. Here, Blanche is dressed all prim and proper in a predominantly white ensemble and this juxtaposes the bustling, working-class setting. This then evokes a mood of alienation, how the audience can clearly see and sense that Blanche is…

The play belongs to the genre of the Southern Gothic as Blanche represents the faded, corrupt culture of the South. The play is a classical tragedy as it presents the downfall and the tragic end of the main character. It is also a kind of social realism because the play deals with social realistic issues of the 20th century. The setting of the play is limited in the French Quarter in New Orleans and it helps to create the conflict between Blanche and Stanley. Williams…

power and authority and is often the leader in a situation.” [1] In this drama, the theme of male dominance is one of the main themes present in the play “A streetcar named Desire” and it is mostly represented using the character of Stanley towards Blanche and her sister. The stage directions play a major role in the play, whereby we learn a lot more about the male dominance of Stanley in this play, for example scene 1, “the stage direction describe Stanley as a virulent character. And we can…

Robert Aldrich’s What Ever Happened to Baby Jane is a 1962 psychological thriller. It is the story of the twisted dynamic of two siblings. Bette Davis plays Baby Jane Hudson, an aging actress who holds her paraplegic sister Blanche (Joan Crawford) captive in an old mansion. Throughout the film, Jane’s bitterness towards her sister sister escalates and even turns into torture and violence. While the film’s plot undoubtedly keeps the audience hanging on the edge of their seat, it 's the film’s…

what the author’s motives for him are. Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire leaves many readers with an ambivalence toward its main antagonist. There is no debate, though, that he is a just a normal man, living a normal life before Blanche came to ruin it. On one side, Williams himself forces Stanley to be the antagonist as a result of his questioning of a society such as that of the mid-1900’s. On the other side, Stanley is an illustration of William’s…

on what type of “set” one has. It might be a scene, a place or even a person, as in the case of A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams describes the main character in his play as a woman named Blanche DuBois, desperate to cover the truth of her real self. Although the constant strive of Blanche to maintain an impression of youth, purity and innocence in the night, her real guise succeeds to crack the shell of demureness, insecurity and guilt, which lead to her losing touch with the reality…