Desire

Having read the play “A Streetcar named Desire” by Tennessee Williams and watched the film “Blue Jasmine” directed by Woody Allen, I have come to feel more sympathy for Williams ‘ character Blanche than Allen’s character Jasmine. “A Streetcar Named Desire” and “Blue Jasmine” similarly tell the story of a socialite who faces an epic downfall in life. Woody Allen’s film manages to parallel Tennessee’s original “A Streetcar Named Desire” whilst adding a modern twist and subtle adaptations. Despite…

not have to separate themselves from their love ones in order to be successful academically. There are many examples in the text that significe how parents and other love ones could motivate a student academically. In his writings, Achievement of Desire by Richard Rodriguez, Richard demonstrates how his parents and siblings played a key role of his success. His “brother and both sister were both very good students. (They often brought home the shiny school trophies I came to want.) And my mother…

cannot forget that his academic success distances him from a life he loved, even from his own memory of himself” (518), were the words spoken by Rodriguez. Why did Richard Rodriguez allow his desire for academic success to distance him from his family? The desire for academic success was overwhelming. Desire was the drug that lured Rodriguez to the point of no return. He was persistent in evading nostalgia for the life he lost nonetheless; he has his intellectual mind focused on the benefits…

This Fabliaux portrays male sexual desire as necessary even by the means of adultery. This is because the priest needs to overcome the wife, whose insatiable sexuality made her a worthy adversary. This is what helped tolerate adultery. (Clark 64) The priest gets the drunken husband to lay on the floor and then the wife on top of him. The priest then sets out to complete what he came there to do: “Then, as a favour to the woman, lifts her skirts/ and over those two he inverts/ her, and between…

Color makes life worth living for by the expressions found within it. In "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams it is presented the idea of the colors red and white are used by the characters, Stella and Blanche to reflect their states of mind that were greatly influenced by their unstable upbringing. The color red can be described as impure, dangerous, or promiscuous and this color is depicted with Blanche as a sign of her desecrated mentality due to a terrible home life as she…

Waking up with a killer headache and blurry vision, Blanche knew something was wrong. She waited for her eyes to adjust to the harsh lighting before fully opening them and taking in her surroundings. There was blood everywhere! At the foot of the old wooden chair she sat in was a puddle of what Blanche could only assume to be her own blood. Seeing this she began to panic. She desperately tried pulling at the ropes around her hands, but had no luck. By now Blanche was sure it was her blood…

“After a week, when I was no more annoyed with my destiny and had regained my weight and composure, I discovered one evening the same man with several gold chains around his thick black neck sitting in the warden’s room chewing tobacco, the warden asked me to go with him. I found no difference between Baz Khan and the salacious scoundrel sitting in the chair, the only difference being Baz Khan treated me like a commodity without a price since the fat man was prepared to put a price on me. I…

The reaction of Stella alters is based on the interaction between her husband and sister. Both Stanley and Blanche are responsible for Stella’s sudden diverse, which is affected by key moments like Stanley hitting Stella and the conversation between the two before Stella goes into labor. In the end, Blanche’s actions impact Stella’s final thought that necessitates her future with Stanley. When Stella was first introduced, she was displayed as a housewife with the typical wife duties. Before the…

The Journey being the means by which we discover ourselves, involves the exploration of the self, as individuals review their development and growth in the light of experiences which inspire and/or challenge them. This journey can be seen as the result of personal growth, a result of pain or acceptance of consequences. As you will soon see, from comparative texts such as the play called Cosi by Louis Nowra, and a picture book called Rose Blanche by Ian McEwan, the experience and extent of the…

Sometimes in life, the choices that we make were a limit and affect us in many different ways. Richard Rodriguez talks about how the education changes his life in "The Achievement of Desire". His desire to success put him in an uneasy relationship with his parents and loss of his cultural language. Rodriguez believes that sacrificing barriers can earn him a success. Rodriguez fined himself as a "scholarship boy" which was started by Hoggart in his own lecture "The Use of Literacy" and a kid who…