Nuit Blanche

play “A Streetcar Named Desire”, Tennessee Williams utilises a range of characters to expose and critique the way that institutions and attitudes of post-war America placed restrictions on women’s lives. The female characters, Stella Kowalski and Blanche DuBois, play a prominent role in this portrayal of the treatment of women, as while both females demonstrate two different types of femininity, they both find still themselves dependant on men. Additional supporting characters, such as Eunice,…

In A Street Car Named Desire, Blanch, who is one of the main characters, is changed by the many things that happen to her while visiting her sister and brother-in-law in New Orleans. Such as the things she uses as coping mechanisms to keep her mind off things which some to not seem normal to some people. Also not being able to understand changes or things she is not used to and lastly, the here and there confessions of things that have happened in her past. While Blanch is there she really tests…

story of a woman coming to live with her sister and her husband. Within the story, the past lurks throughout the story, haunting the character’s present. Blanche is a mentally unstable woman who was forced to flee her home when all her relatives passed away. Stella reluctantly allows Blanche to live with them, and during the course of her stay, Blanche brings the past into their home. Although Stella tries to be the neutral ground between Stanley and Blanche’s bickering, her past always finds a…

girl named Blanche Dubois. Blanche goes to New Orleans to visit her pregnant sister, Stella. Another character who is also there is Stella’s husband, Stanley. Blanche was struggling with her life so she decided to visit her sister until get becomes better. Blanche explains to Stella that the bank has taken their family’s plantation away. Stanley thinks something is fishy about what Blanche is telling Stella. He thinks she sold the land and took the money. Since Stanley thinks Blanche is lying he…

Furthermore, the sisters of A Streetcar Named Desire portray the actuality between siblings offset. When Blanche arrives to visit her sister Stella and her husband Stanley for the first time, Blanche acts like any sister would and wonder about her sister’s life with the man she knows nothing about. Blanche becomes pitiful as she wonders whether Stanley will accept her as she questions their relationship. “Blanche: Will Stanley…

analyze the character even closer. Blanche Dubois is a wealthy, up-scaled class woman, at least, that is what she wants people to believe, who goes to visit her sister in New Orleans. Blanche is a character in Tennessee Williams’ play “A Streetcar Named Desire” who has gone through many tough trails in life. Not always making the best decisions all Blanche would like is to forget the past and start fresh. However, with the loss of her sanity and youth, Blanche finds turning her fantasy into a…

see more. On the other hand, Kazan’s film main character Blanche DuBois, is played by Vivien Leigh. Furthermore, Vivien Leigh, creates a divergent character in the film who fights between her reality, fantasy and the judgements that are made towards her. The film uses a handful of scenes from the play, written by Tennessee Williams, however there are some very important lines left out in certain scenes in the film. It is…

Named Desire, eloquently illustrates the life of Blanche DuBois, an impecunious woman that has moved to New Orleans and is now living with her sister Stella and her sister’s husband Stanley, after being evicted from her ancestral home in Laurel, Mississippi. Stanley is a catalyst in Blanche’s fall from reality, as he makes it his mission to exploit the secrets of her past. When all her hopes for the future have collided with her sins from the past, Blanche falls off the deep-end and succumbs to…

When A Streetcar Named Desire came out in 1946, America had just emerged from World War II after battling the Great Depression throughout the 1930’s. Whilst the conclusion of World War II proved the nations superiority and power to the world after squashing the threat of Nazi Germany, the success cost the country millions of lives. However, America’s ability to leave Germany powerless to the hands of the nation and the other Allied forces meant that the remaining middle and lower class soldiers…

A Streetcar Named Desire is an allusion to the death of the “Old South.” Blanche DuBois, a woman raised on a southern plantation, creates this allusion. Blanche is the epitome of the Old South by being a school teacher, wanting to depend on a man, and trying to stay prim and proper all of the time. Her job as a school teacher puts her in the position of working with children, as seen in the Old South. She wants to depend on a man, like Mitch, because she believes he will take care of her.…