Elysian Fields

Those who can’t provide one way will provide another. Due to the need of an attorney, Mr. Cunningham pays through the only way he can: through an entailment which he provides stove wood, hickory nuts, and other farm produce. Asking why Mr. Cunningham pays back with food and other farm goods, Atticus answers Scout , “ Because that’s the only way he can pay me. He has no money” (Lee 27). This quote explains that through the difficult aftermath of the Great Depression, most people lost what little…

I’m finally home. It has been a difficult week at work and it is nice to feel the long shag carpet between my toes when I walk into my living room. That and the light blue walls are warm and inviting. Give me five minutes in my well-worn easy chair and all the stress of work will be a distant memory. As I was relaxing and flipping through the TV channels I saw that a volcano near my house may erupt. Not only is it going to erupt, but it is predicted to be so big it may bring another ice age…

she lost her stature in Laurel. The driving force behind these actions were the empowerment of her desires. Williams uses allusions to develop the theme of desire as seen in Blanche and those allusions are Arabian Nights, My Rosenkavalier, and Elysian Fields. Blanche uses the allusion Arabian Nights to show her desire of wanting to be with young men to relive the moments she had with her young husband,…

back working in factories and women taking care of the household and children. During this time the idea of a “Southern belle” and the separation of social classes was fading. Blanche’s idea of being socially above others was not very popular in Elysian Fields. The inappropriate behavior of many was considered okay and was taken nonchalantly by characters. In A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams the author uses masculinity and men, class and society differences and…

Besides the fact that Blanche and Stella are sisters, from the DuBois family. Their family was once part of the wealthy Southern aristocracy. When Blanche arrives at her sister, Stella’s apartment she looks down upon the small apartment and her working-class husband. Stella is content with her and Stanley’s life. Stella and Stanley have had a relationship strongly based in animalistic, emotional, and sexual chemistry. When Blanche moves in Stella begins to attending to Blanche’s needs more…

Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams makes it so the notions of brutal desire and death dance together in a vicious waltz around Blanche DuBois, the tragic main character of the play. The pair constantly haunts her from the moment she arrives in Elysian Fields in the form of two streetcars, Desire and Cemeteries, representing her inevitable downfall that stems from her unyielding wishes for intimacy and to fit into society, both created from terrible past experiences. Blanche’s existence…

Published in 1946, A Streetcar Named Desire reflects the cultural tensions that pervaded the nation after the horrors of World War II, when an idealistic and ambitious American nation attempted to prove its superiority and its power to the global community by attempting to - and succeeding in - squashing the threat of Nazi Germany. Millions of Americans lost their lives in an effort that left Germany powerless in the hands of America and the other Allied forces. When A Streetcar Named Desire…

Hades, Pluto, Dis Pater, Orcus, Plouton or any other name you wish to call him is the god of riches, souls, and the underworld as well as the eldest of the three main brothers in mythology. Hades also has many symbols which consist of Cerberus, a drinking horn, a scepter, Cypress, Narcissus, and a key. His brothers Zeus, god of the sky, and Poseidon, god of the ocean, are also sons of Cronus. Hades was not considered to be death itself, or an Olympian, however was thought to cause death and so…

On April 10th, 2018, I attended a concert performed by three talented performers: John Carlo Pierce (Tenor), Michelle Stanley (Flute), Jeff LaQuatra (Guitar). The performances were at The Griffin Foundation Gallery in the Gregory Allicar Museum of Art. The performances were part of the Music in the Museum Concert Series, which is a performance based on the art that surrounds it. The art installment in the museum is called Pompeii Archive: Recent Photographs by William Wylie. Pompeii was once a…

In Greek Mythology, the ancient Greek beliefs about mortality mainly revolved around the three stages of the Underworld. The first stage is The Elysian Fields. This stage was for heroes and people who accomplished great things on earth. The second stage the Fields of Asphodel. This level of the underworld contained zombie-like souls. The souls of these people weren't criminals or heroes. However, if you were a criminal, you would go to Tartarus. This stage was a dark land of souls that were…