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    most obsessively beloved in modern book that soon became movies. is it better to defy expectations or to meet them? In the movie A Streetcar Named Desire the movie portrays a more accurate plot that help make it a accurate play. It's centered when Blanche goes to visit her sister Stella in a small town in Louisiana. The movie presents a more shallow and uninterested mood judging by the way the actors play the role of the character. As a viewer the producer didn't present the right group of…

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    The novel Jane Eyre can be viewed through a feminist lens because of love, wealth, different obstacles and being employed. “Feminist theory is the extension of feminism into theoretical or philosophical discourse. It aims to understand the nature of gender inequality. It examines women 's social roles, experience, interests, and feminist politics in a variety of fields, such as anthropology and sociology, communication, psychoanalysis, economics, literature, education, and philosophy.”…

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    A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams and performed by La Boite Theatre Company, easily engages the audience in their successful attempt to relate to a contemporary audience. The audience followed Blanche DuBois as she tried to stay peacefully with her sister and her husband, Stanley. During her stay, she discovers secrets of domestic violence and pregnancy, and has her own secrets brought up by Stanley, resulting in a bitter end of rape and admittance into a mental institution…

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    Anger is an emotion characterized by grudge and animosity toward someone or something it is a reaction to a perceived threat to us or some part of our identity. It is like warning bell that tells us that something is wrong. As it known in abstract stories, myths, and religious beliefs reveal the role that anger has played in human affairs since the beginning of recorded history .anger movement also started with the American feminism and the connection between the women’s rights movement and…

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    Against crashing rain and crackling thunder, the sapling grows. This sapling does not wither, it does not fade, but it matures against the harsh conditions and blooms into a great perennial flower. In Charlotte Bronte’s novel Jane Eyre, Jane evolves from a sapling that begs for the acceptance of others into an independant blossom that develops knowledge through ill-treatment. Jane receives hatred and mistreatment and shifts her experiences into the knowledge to defy persecution and flourishes…

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    The 1940s play written by Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire, highlights the issue of domestic violence within society. Literary critics at that time it was published often overlooked the violence. Modern critics, however, try to understand where the interpretations went wrong and how the characters are representation of society’s fatal flaw. Susan Koprince, a modern critic, extensively analyzes the importance of the characterization of Stanley and Stella Kowalski, stressing why their…

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    The Desire Line ran through the streets of New Orleans from 1920 to 1948, at the height of streetcar use. The car ran down Bourbon, through the Quarter, to Desire street in the Bywater district, and traveled back to Canal. Inspired by a period of unhappiness surrounding his twenty-fourth birthday, and co-workers he knew at the time, Tennessee Williams set out to write what would become A Streetcar Named Desire. Born Thomas Lanier Williams III in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, Tennessee Williams…

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    Betrayal is a very present element in Heroes. The plot revolves around deceit. It was present before the story even began. The sate, Marie-Blanche Touraine, Larry LaSalle and Francis himself are each betraying someone in the story. The state is betraying young men by not telling them what really awaits them at war. Instead, it encourages boys to enlist to defend their country. The state even accepts people who are too young to enlist in the army : “ ‘They were taking anybody with a heartbeat in…

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    Golden Girls was an NBC show written by Susan Harris. Golden Girls aired on Saturday nights with the idea that the show would raise their ratings and bring in an older demographic. NBC had a hard time fulfilling Saturday ratings until Golden Girls joined the line up. There are a total of 180 episodes. Golden Girls had 15 Emmy nomination and 10 wins, Golden Girls ran from 1987 and eventually ended in May 1992. The shows premise surrounds three widows and one divorcé, based in Miami all living…

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    As the story progresses, Blanche explains her personal trauma of how her childhood home went bankrupt, and how she lost multiple family members to illness. Worse yet, she also witnessed her husband commit suicide. After so many significant losses, Blanche begins going through the seven stages of grief; yet she never truly learns to accept the deaths of her loved ones. Slowly but surely, this makes Blanche more susceptible to mental illness, along with the fact she…

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