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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…

Characters in plays come in many ways with several traits that make he or she unique. With literary devices such as irony and symbolism, authors can help readers 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…

In his article "The Perils of Obedience," Stanley Milgram describes what, in his opinion, was an ethical experiment performed at Yale University designed to test how ordinary people respond to authority figures' direct orders, even if the orders violate the test subjects' conscience. In order to prevent psychological damage, Milgram's test subjects were reconciled with their victims after the experiment was terminated; he also claims there was an attempt to reduce tensions that resulted from the…

The line between hilarity and seriousness is tested when David O Russell approaches a new film. Known for his eccentric behaviors and powerful displays of ordinary people in film, Russell develops himself as a household name in correlation to the film industry. Having been nominated for both, Academy Awards and the Golden Globes, it’s no wonder that David O. Russell is a powerhouse for entertainment. His resume is filled with films that balance comedy and drama including, Joy, The Fighter,…

of Stanislavsky. Leigh, in contrast, came from an antithetical tradition: Stylized/Classical Acting, a tradition which, at the time, the Method Actors had rejected as formulated, as rigid ” (73). Originally in the play and on camera, Blanche and Stanley always had tension between them and they both seemed to always insult each other. Equally, Vivien Leigh “was quoted in print as having said that Brando was ‘a slob’, the tension between them on the set was rumored to be as ‘thick as New Orleans…

his iconic play, A Streetcar 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…

Professor Blackmon, Those are two very good questions! In the 1960’s there were many unanswered questions in the field sociology, which was still growing into what it has become today. The curiosity of Stanley Milgram led to some questionable decisions in the name of research that provided some very intriguing results regarding authority and obedience. In a world constantly in fear of a third world war and mass atrocities are still being carried out at the hands of dangerous dictators, over…

turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that’s stronger than this — kitchen — candle…” This line describes the love she lost and how her life hasn’t been the same since. After moving in with Stanley and Stella, Blanche began to look for a new man to take care of her. First, her eyes were set on Harold Mitchell, also known as Mitch. Out of Stanley’s gang of friends, he was the only one that she was seemingly attracted to. They began to go…

"Obedience is as basic an element in the structure of social life as one can point to," says Stanley Milgram in his essay, "The Perils of Obedience" (Milgram 78). As he prepared to conduct a more extreme case of analyzing obedience in which test subjects would read off a group of words while the "learner," who was an actor, would have to pair the two correct words together, only to be shocked in an electric chair if they failed, Milgram hypothesized that the test subjects would listen to their…

Comparing the two characters from the novel The Awakening and the play A Streetcar Named Desire, Edna Pontellier and Blanche Dubois, there are clearly inherent differences between the two. Some differences being: Edna being an artist and Blanche being a teacher, Edna having two children and Blanche having none, Edna being a married women and Blanche being a widow. But, despite the differences the between the two characters there are also many similarities. The three most important similarities…