Desire

Throughout an individual’s life they encounter hardships and promising events. In addition each event, whether good or bad, has the potential to present new knowledge for future use. Consequently, not all individuals share this view. When staring reality dead in the eye, some individuals may choose to avoid the truth, and instead pursue a method of avoidance. This process is easy, however deludes the individual from admitting reality. Their self-perception emphasizes their good qualities, while…

Blanche Dubois is the protagonist of the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” written by Tennessee Williams. Her character is portrayed as a middle aged woman who is supposed to be a going crazy because she drowns in her own thoughts. Blanche is able to keep her thoughts together, but “ critic Anca Vlasopolos interprets Blanche’s downfall as a demonstration of William’s sympathy for her circumstances and a condemnation of the society that destroys her” (Blanche Dubois An Antihero). Blanche herself…

No matter one’s age or state, all people have dreams, or illusions. A balance between fantasy and reality can lead to a healthy lifestyle, but too much of one can be chaotic. This is demonstrated in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams by several characters. Blanche Dubois has lost the family home in Laurel Mississippi, and comes to live with her sister Stella and her husband Stanley Kowalski. Blanche likes to present herself as an elegant and classy lady, but those are just her…

We must learn to deal with reality. If we do not then we might become worse off and hurt ourselves. In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, a short story written by Ursula Le Guin, and A Streetcar Named Desire, a play written by Tennessee Williams, the reader is reminded that what we should not ignore reality; sometimes we think that the truth is harsh and we ignore it so that we do not have to deal with it rather than face the reality. By ignoring reality, we can let a problem grow out of hand…

Shakespeare in Hamlet act V scene 2 reveals many aspects of the human nature, along with the divinity which shapes the path of our journey. Thus, Hamlet believes that things are meant to happen will be going to happen and no one can avoid it. Men create problems and make harmful plans for others, but there is a divine power which curves your path different than other’s plan, yet bad experiences created by others can make a tremendous mental impact on the person. In Act V scene 2, the beginning…

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…

Dictionary, expectation is looking forward to something hoped for. Hope is expectation and desire combined, for instance for certain thing to occur. We can therefore, use the two interchangeably. Expectation is the last powerful golden master key that is needed to receive everything you desire. It has in its power the ability to pull unseen need into reality. The power of expectation opens the door for the invisible desire to manifest itself in the physical. Expectation is the last atmosphere…

Women’s Desires Men expressing desires is manly, women expressing desires is indecency. Societies double standards are unfair to women. Justify. Anita Nair’s Ladies Coupe traces the lives of six women from different Strata’s of society and how they in their own way try to find their own identity, cracking the walls of patriarchal expectations. The Novel demonstrates, how even education and responsibilities can reduce a woman’s identity to mere roles, i.e. how the protagonist Akhila, though…

Individuals who feel the most inferior are usually ones who resort to taking control by the use of fear and pain. Someone who desires control over everyone most likely has felt a sense of inferiority so intense that it becomes almost like a second instinct to take control. In A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Stanley is a very violent man who uses brute force to take control of Stella, Blanche, and everyone in his life. Stanley, being of a lower class than Blanche, felt threatened…

same, but more than one thing (Republic IV 436C). He then tells us how reason and desire are different. Reason is different than desire because the desire of thirst would only deal with the thirst only. If both desire and thirst acted together on the same part of the soul then when we have a desire we would never be able to stop ourselves from acting on that desire. However, he explains that one can hold back their desire for thirst, this means that reason is not acting on the same…