Stanley Kowalski

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…

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…

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…

significantly contrasts the extent to which Stella and Stanley view reality, all three share an underlying similarity of attempting to avoid it. Williams uses the recurring theme of illusion versus reality in order to further portray the imperfection of his play’s characters. Blanche’s world is an illusion when she repeatedly attempts to escape the harsh circumstances around her, her past, and the lack of true confidence in herself. When Blanche moves into Stanley and Stella’s apartment, she…

In the drama, "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, Williams uses the motif of lighting throughout the novel to develop the character of Blanche. The way Blanche reacts to light can be seen as her attempt to hide her true character, hide her vanishing youth and beauty, and attempt to avoid reality. Blanche hides in the darkness, and avoids the light, as a way to escape reality. This idea is represented when Mitch attempts to turn on the light, "I don't want realism. I want magic!…

The episode “Celebration” from Knot’s Landing perfectly executes on the concept of TV serials using blocking and weaving to tell their story. Blocking and weaving is all about how the writers block the characters and their story, and then weave the characters into the other characters storylines. The story of the episode is all centered around Ciji’s big performance at the restaurant Daniel, unfortunately she doesn’t show up and we later discover that she is dead on the beach. This is the end of…

Personal fulfillment can not be attributed to genes and is not stagnant, constantly evolving with the human race and the advancement of individuals in their desire to unearth the part of themselves that society has buried. Every individual is destined for something different, knit together for a unique purpose. All dealt our own deck of cards, it is up to every individual to decide whether they will fold or continue to play the game. Woven into a variety of stories, clues on how to to obtain…

characters around them; Stanley, Mitch, and Allan. Stanley is the most masculine of all of them and Mitch is more of a gentleman while Allan the most submissive of them all has been portrayed as weak and is also hinted as a homosexual. Throughout the play Stanley has been depicted as a macho man, someone that is on the top compared to the other male characters, but is also seen to have passive, and almost homoerotic tendencies. Both in the play and movie have made Stanley as this man of power.…

specifying to Stella staying with Stanley no matter how badly he treats her. Stella’s desire for Stanley pulls her away from Belle Reve and her past. Stella is drawn to Stanley’s brute, animal sexuality, and he is drawn to her traditional, domestic, feminine sexuality. Stella is pregnant: her sexuality is deeply tied to both womanliness and motherhood. Even though Stanley is violent to Stella, their sexual dynamic keeps them together. When Blanche is horrified that Stanley beats Stella, Stella…

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…