Nuit Blanche

Jezebel and A Streetcar Named Desire both demonstrate that females are the inferior gender. Both films exhibit a female leading character, Julie Marsden and Blanche DuBois, portrayed by Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, respectfully. Because females do not enjoy the same respect and dominance as the males do in the films, both Julie and Blanche challenge this standard and attempt to gain control through manipulation. Manipulation is a prevalent theme in both films and is not limited to just females,…

Stella Kowalski character often overlooked in Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire. Throughout the play, the reader tends to become invested in Blanche and Stanley’s dominating roles, reducing Stella to the rivalry’s mediator. However, Stella’s development throughout the story is the deciding factor of Blanche’s inevitable fate. By the end of the play, Stella’s relationship to reality begins to crumble. Much like her sister, she begins to deny the truth, choosing the live in ignorance…

A Streetcar Named Desire focuses on the mysterious and thought-provoking personality and state of mind of Blanche DuBois. Throughout the play the most prominent characteristic we learn about her is her desire to be fresh and to look young. In connection with her wish of eternal beauty comes the important symbol of the bath which appears several times during the play, to help not only Blanche to rest and find shelter from the surrounding circumstances and hide in her world of illusions but also…

important to be the common person, Amanda Wingfield of The Glass Menagerie and Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire value blending into the world around them in order to avoid the pressure from society that brings out their most influential weaknesses. Without anyone to depend on, Blanche Dubois and Amanda Wingfield face more pressure from the environment around them and because of this their vulnerability is highlighted. Blanche from A Streetcar…

Play Response: The Divine Fallacy The concept of beauty has long been debated in books, films, social networks, and religion. Like the word “love” beauty is jammed packed with hidden meanings and purpose. There is a common belief that in order for something or someone to be beautiful they must be “perfect.” In Tina Howe’s The Divine Fallacy, she causes the audience to think about beauty in the not so beautiful, past the mundane cover of a painted face there is untapped beauty in the soul of…

of war between Blanche and Stanley -- a fight of manners versus manhood. This battle, carried out through overt displays of sexuality and subtle wordplay, foreshadows Blanche’s destruction at Stanley’s hands as well as reinforcing Blanche’s insecurities and Stanley’s dominating, alpha-male persona. Here, the battleground for the pair’s fight is Stella, the rope in their metaphorical tug of war, In this passage, Williams outlines the beginnings of a violent tug of war between Blanche and Stanley…

and not the suffering of another. They face reality and change it so that they are comfortable with themselves. The others who stay in Omelas may not have enough will power to not rely on others for their own happiness. In A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche has to go to an institution when she is confronted by reality. She seems to be stuck in her delusional world and does not wish to leave it. Her sister on the other hand seems to be at a crossroads where she may follow Blanche’s path if she…

Street Car Named Desire is 1951 drama film, a modification of Tennessee William’s 1947 play with the same name. It’s a story of Blanche Dubois, who after several courses of social ups and downs, tries to find her sage with her sister and brother-in-law living at a low income apartment building in New Orleans. But ultimately, she fails to build an emotional stability for herself. This script is a perfect sequence of tragedy full of emotions and drama comprised of violence, witty and poetic…

From a feminist's point of view, domestic abuse should not happen at any cost, not to anyone. In scene 10, the climax of the play we see drunk Stanley who has absolutely no control over himself raping Blanche. Even after Blanche tells Stella that Stanley raped him she refuses to believe that Stanley can do such a horrible thing, and she still lives with Stanley as she is dependent on him and has nowhere else to go. Another example of domestic abuse is from Scene…

sometimes in life we hit hills and the only way to get past them is to go up them and then back down. Much like The American and The Girl who hit trouble and struggle to get through it. In "Hills like White Elephants" by Ernest Hemingway, The 'American' and "the Girl" relationship reveals its complexity through ignorance, selfishness, and not sharing the same vision for the future that eventually leads them to dynamically change. In hills Like White Elephants, hemingway illustrates a…