Stanley Hauerwas

Blanche Dubois is the protagonist of the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” written by Tennessee Williams. Her character is portrayed as a middle aged woman who is supposed to be a going crazy because she drowns in her own thoughts. Blanche is able to keep her thoughts together, but “ critic Anca Vlasopolos interprets Blanche’s downfall as a demonstration of William’s sympathy for her circumstances and a condemnation of the society that destroys her” (Blanche Dubois An Antihero). Blanche herself…

Reaction Paper: Drawn to Injustice Case Overview On the morning of February 11, 1987, Timothy Masters, a 15-year-old boy, came across a body in a field while walking to school from his father 's trailer in Fort Collins, Colorado. Masters initially thought that the body was nothing more than a mannequin and that the local school boys who commonly teased him had pulled another prank because his mother’s 4-year death anniversary had recently passed. Masters continued his walk to the bus stop and…

pretty ordinary, fairly normal, and maybe even a little common. Stanley Kowalski, from Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire, certainly considers himself common, a fact he is both proud and ashamed of. He lives in a rougher city, where love is not always well understood. When his wife’s sister, Blanche, lives in his house for a while, Stanley is outraged and wants her gone, as she is everything he is not. Throughout the play, Stanley seems to dominate the scene with his loud presence.…

it as Stanely prepares to leave without another word. “Stanley! Where are you going,” she calls after him (1.6). His is answer is that he is going bowling; he did not even think to discuss these plans with her first. At first glance, this opening scene seems innocence and possibly even a little fun as the audience views some light-hearted interaction between a husband and wife. However, this scene actually shows some insight into how Stanley has little regard for his wife. First, he yells for…

Most have heard of the famous thought experiment conceived by British philosopher, Phillipa Foot; in which the question is posed whether a person would pull a lever to divert a train and kill only a single railroad worker or act in passivity and let the train run its course, killing four workers. Most people who answer this question claim that they would pull the lever, thus diverting the train. In the second part of the thought experiment, a new scenario is proposed in which the lever that…

Dilemmas of obedience is a widespread topic that has been studied by Solomon Asch and Stanly Milgram. Asch studied the probability of a person to conform to a group and Milgram investigated one’s ability to resist authority. Although there’s variations in the way each experiment was conducted, there’s many similarities that relate to the treatment of each subject. Results of these studies support the reasoning behind the different ways that people act. Events in the past can also correlate with…

Blanche Dubois enters the lives of Stanley and Stella Kowalski when she arrives at their apartment at Elysian Fields. The beautiful and cultured Blanche clashes with the primitive Stanley. However, unlike the cultured Blanche first seen, the real Blanche is penniless and has a history with many men. When Stanley reveals Blanche’s impure past to everybody, Blanche struggles to continue and ends up in a mental facility. The deterioration of Blanche’s character is a result of her attempts to…

The Milgram experiment on obedience to power figures was an arrangement of social brain research experiments directed by Yale University analyst Stanley Milgram. They measured the ability of study members to comply with a power figure who trained them to perform acts clashing with their individual heart. Milgram initially portrayed his examination in 1963 in an article distributed in the Journal of Abnormal and Social Psychology and later talked about his discoveries in more noteworthy…

In Act 2 Scene 3 of William Shakespeare’s play Othello, we hear a soliloquy of Iago. Soliloquies are essential in a play as it is the only time the actor is able to explain their thought process to the audience. In typical soliloquies, the character is not acting for someone else. The character, in essence, is able to portray his/her true self. Through Iago’s soliloquy, the audience is able to hear his malicious intentions. The audience is introduced to his evil mind though his appalling tone,…

The philosophical question of if we, as individuals, have free will is one that does not produce a concrete answer. But in 1971, Stanley Kubrick brought that question to life in a film called A Clockwork Orange. This film portrays a young man named Alex, who is a criminal gang leader, and participates in the Ultra-Violence. Does Alex have the free will to choose his fate as a dangerous, drug-induced criminal in society or is has his fate been predetermined since birth? Could the environment in…