Stanley Kowalski

purely by desire and such a confession brings to light her dependency on these sexual urges and Stanley in a very unhealthy way. This is portrayed through her amusement and dismissal of Stanley’s violent tendencies on her wedding night when he broke all the light bulbs with her shoe; the breaking of the light bulb mirrors the death of Stella’s perspective and her metaphorical darkness in regards to seeing Stanley for what he truly is and she is blinded…

uses the game of poker as the framework for his most well-known play, A Streetcar Named Desire (SNL). The whole play represents a metaphorical poker game, with Blanche and Stanley as the players, and Stella as the dealer. Stella, like all poker dealers, attempts to stay neutral; however, in this game, Stella is also the prize Stanley and Blanche are competing for. While the cards dealt at an actual poker game are playing cards, the cards that Stella deal are love, desire, and deceit. Throughout…

In ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and ‘The Bell Jar’ emotional distress is exemplified through tears and exclamations over liquid. Within both literary texts the authors utilises liquid in relation to emotional exclamations in regard to personal self-awareness. Blanche DuBois, throughout the play, is intensely worried about her appearance and self-perception. This often manifest itself as a fear of bright and harsh light. However, Blanche also relies on liquid during her moments of self-awareness:…

out. Taking the curse words out of the movie made the scenes a little bit watered down, meaning the excitement was taken out of it to make it more appropriate. For example in scene two when Stanley was accusing Blanche of a scandal, the argument played a part in affecting the theme of the book. Instead of Stanley being the bad guy he was made out to be in the book, he seemed nice and sometimes seemed like he wanted Blanche there in the movie.…

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 Stanley to open up his wife’s eyes about the truth concerning Blanche’s unforeseen presence. Right at the beginning of the play the motif of the bath appears. Following…

and her husband Stanley, in New Orleans. Coming from Laurel, Mississippi, Blanche was accustomed to a more proper lifestyle compared to her Polish brother-in-law’s, so when she first arrived in the Quarter she was shocked by the new lifestyle her sister has adopted. Blanche’s criticism did not really bother Stella, but it aggravated Stanley because he’s very proud of his lifestyle. This difference in values and beliefs grew to cause a strong opposition between Blanche and Stanley, which…

their home. Although Stella tries to be the neutral ground between Stanley and Blanche’s bickering, her past always finds a way to interfere most with her present, causing friction between her husband and herself. Ultimately, this results in her having to chose…

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 begins to snoop through her things and comes across a…

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…

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…