Desire

The Coquette and The Awakening show female desire to break the constraints placed on women in the 19th century. In The Coquette, Eliza Wharton is presented with two choices, one man or the other. The option never exists for her to simply not be with a man, to not conform to the societal expectation of women. The Awakening presents Edna Pontellier, a wife and a mother, transforming from the ideal picture of woman to pursuing her own desires. Women’s desire is not only shown from the plot, the…

and broken connections. As students grow into young adults, they undergo adjustments throughout adolescence. One malignant side effect is the loss of connections to family, heritage, and traditions.. In Richard Rodriguez’s essay, The Achievement of Desire, a young…

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…

A play’s setting allows the author to bring out many issues facing society, especially related to the social stratification decided by people’s lifestyles. In the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois is a school teacher who moves in with her sister and husband in New Orleans. It is clear that Blanche has fallen through hard times, but she cannot leave her social status attitude when she moves to this working class neighborhood. Her solution is to develop a drinking habit while rooting…

Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House are both similar and different in many ways. They both have strong plot, theme, characters, and symbols. They are great works of great authors. The plot in these plays are similar in that they both end with a renewal. A Streetcar Named Desire ends with Blanche going off to a mental hospital. The true Blanche dies in the end of the play. The ending of A Doll’s House is Nora leaving her husband Torvald. He does not…

Max, exposed a defiant story about Adolf Hitler’s journey into leading many Germans into abominating the Jewish community. When it comes to the topic of whether Hitler was born to be an authoritarian or was it his environment that led him to such a desire for power. Most of us would readily agree that Adolf Hitler’s environment led him to the power he had in Germany. Where this…

Personal fulfillment can not be attributed to genes and is not stagnant, constantly evolving with the human race and the advancement of individuals in their desire to unearth the part of themselves that society has buried. Every individual is destined for something different, knit together for a unique purpose. All dealt our own deck of cards, it is up to every individual to decide whether they will fold or continue to play the game. Woven into a variety of stories, clues on how to to obtain…

these three all display fit collectively under the category that is violence. Verbal abuse leaves lasting emotional scars that often cause more damage than any other form of violence. Stanley Kowalski, the antagonist in the play A Streetcar Named Desire, is an absolute vulgar working class brute who because of his strength and ferocity feels he can do and say anything he wants to his wife Stella. Stella’s sister Blanche Dubois moves in which causes a great amount of tension in their house…

Frigidity, also know as Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (HSDD) is a term used to describe lack of or low sex drive in women. It is also avoidance of any to all sexual contact. The DSMIV-TR describes frigidity as “characterized by disturbance in sexual desire and in the psycho-physiological changes that characterize the sexual response cycle and cause marked distress and interpersonal difficulty.” [3A American Psychiatric Association, DSM-IV-TR.] Frigidity can happen to any woman at any age. An…

We will look at how these similarities and differences exist along the theme of sex and the desires and temptations the role they play in both the novel and the movie. Sex and desire is present in both the settings, but the representation of sexual desire changes from the 1897 novel to the modern film in 1992. In Bram Stokers novel of Dracula the representation of sex and temptation is rooted in the desire for blood and the nature in which blood is sucked out of the victim. During…