Henry Morton Stanley

where everything is going her way. While playing cards with Stanley, she states, “I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion” (WIlliams 36), proving that she likes to fabricate the world around her. When she is talking to Mitch she states, “I don't want realism. I want magic!” (Williams 127), more over reinforcing the point that her life is one of her own semblance. Blanche’s fascination with Stanley plays a key role in driving the plot. However,…

Named Desire Blanche visits her sister, Stella, and her husband, Stanley, out in New Orleans to escape from her life in Mississippi. During her stay we find that Stella and Stanley do not have a very healthy relationship. We also find that Blanche is not well and she had not made the best of choices in her past. This story focuses on the characters Stella and Blanche, sisters who grew up on the Belle Reve estate in Mississippi, Stanley, Stella’s violent and unrefined husband, and several of…

Moreover, Blanche Ingram is portrayed as being a villain. Among the entirety of the novel, Blanche’s morals were far off from what’s considered to be just. She pretends to love Edward Rochester and embarks on a journey of total deceit. When it was falsely speculated that Rochester lost all his money and was no longer wealthy, Blanche’s interest towards him fell faster than anyone could “I told you so.” Thus, proving that Blanche was only captivated by the wealth and status of Rochester. Without…

Molly Fitzsimmons 
Ms. Bryan English 3 Gold 4 27 February 2017 I believe light is the biggest motif carried out through the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams. Lighting shows the theme of Illusion vs. Reality along with developing the main character Blanche. Blanche escapes reality by never showing her true self in the light. Blanche is not just hiding from the people and society, but from her own self. She covers up the truth with lies and exaggerations because…

When Stanley and Blanche meet, it’s an automatic unsettling relationship between the two. Stanley thinks that she cheated Stella with the share of Bella Reve. Their relationship gets worse when Stanley gets too drunk while playing poker and beats Stella. This same night, Blanche meet Mitch. There was an immediate attraction between the two. Blanche does not want Stella to stay with someone that is abusive. Stanley overheard all of the bad things Blanche and they are now enemies. Stanley starts…

have a tarnished past. Blanche cannot fulfill that aspiration, though, for Stanley is always an obstacle in her attempts to forge a new path that she can travel on. As he has “something—ape-like about him” (83) and Blanche’s “uncertain manner…suggests a moth” (5), they are natural sworn enemies with warring desires. Blanche shies away from light as much as she can in order to seem demure and hide her reputation, but Stanley insists on people giving him unyielding truths and obsesses over the…

Williams continues this theme of mental entrapment with one of his later plays, A Streetcar Named Desire. In like manner to The Glass Menagerie’s Laura, Blanche DuBois remains a prisoner of her own mind as she too cannot let go of her haunting past. Towards the middle of the book, readers learn of the main experience that causes Blanche’s problems when interacting with men. Her ex-husband, Allan Gray, commits suicide after being called disgusting by Blanche as a result from seeing him with…

This 1981 American classic horror film directed by Brian De Palma. The protagonist of this story Jack is a film sound man from Philadelphia. When recording sound for a low-cost horror film, he accidentally recorded the evidence of a murder of a presidential candidate and got involved in a bizarre political conspiracy. Palma is known as "the Hitchcock of the United States" and "the Master of contemporary Suspense Film". He is also considered as “part of the New Hollywood wave of filmmaking”[…

Steven Spielberg is one of the greatest directors of this generation. He has directed countless films and the three that stand out the most are Jurassic Park, Jaws, and Schindler’s List. Steven Spielberg has used many cinematic techniques such as specific color scheme and camera movement. One technique that he is mainly known for is the use of tracking shots. An analysis of these techniques will show how Spielberg uses cinematic techniques to capture his artistic vision. In the film Schindler’s…

Williams is a play that displays the theme of “desire” in many scenes but not only in a sexual way. Desire is shown within the play through Stanley’s desire for power and control, Blanche’s desire for security and her desire to live in a fantasy world. Stanley portrays the alpha male where he shows dominance over other characters and takes…