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    When Blanche transferred from a streetcar named desire to a streetcar called cemeteries, her moth-soul finds the broken Darwinian environment. Blanche looks to Stella, her sister, and Stanley Kowalski for ideal love, but finds that similarly, their relationship is not perfect. Knowing that her sister is desperately looking for approval, Stella tells Stanley, “Admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful. That’s important with Blanche. Her little weakness! (Williams 31). Everyone around…

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    including A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Tin Roof. A Streetcar Named Desire, written in 1947, is the play that gave Williams his first Pulitzer Prize (Biography.com). The main characters in that play are Blanche Dubois, her younger sister Stella, and Stella’s husband Stanley Kowalski. Blanche Dubois has unexpectedly come to live with her sister because she has lost her job. In Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois is characterized as a liar, mentally…

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    Blanche’s relationship with bright light reveals the most about the complexity that subsists beneath her vanity. Blanche associates bright light with both love and awakening: she describes falling in love as “suddenly turn[ing] a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow” (Williams 67). However, it also reveals the harshness of reality and she dims the lighting (with the paper lantern) to maintain an illusion of “magic” and present “what ought to be truth” (Williams 84).…

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    However, when an incident occurred with Stanley, that Blanche did not make up, Stella could not believe her. In scene 11, Blanche told Stanley that Mitch came by to basically apologize to her and beg for her forgiveness. This led to Stanley finally giving in and arguing with her about how she lies, uses imagination, and conceitedness…

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    In his 1940s tragedy, A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams explores the helpless psychological downfall of Blanche Dubois as she attempts to deal with the events in her past, and resolve her uncertain future. Dubois’ lamentable romantic history acts to push her on an unremitting path of mental deterioration, which manifests itself in a heavy reliance on alcohol, predation (on younger men), and romantic fantasies—this gradually escalates from the benign and simple act of visualizing a…

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    Discuss and analyse the emergence of actor training systems since 1905 In this essay, I have decided to talk about actor training that has emerged within the last one hundred years, and you truly can’t talk about popular modern actor training without talking about Constantin Stanislavski, famed Russian actor, director, and teacher, who deeply influenced the theatre of the 20th century. Born Constantin Sergeyvich Alekseyev on January 17th 1863, and died on August 7th 1938. He was born into one…

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    Blanche Dubois Reality

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    Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire centers on Blanche Dubois, a fading Southern belle from Laurel, Mississippi, who comes to stay with her younger sister Stella and husband Stanley Kowalski in New Orleans. Blanche is a fragile woman who constantly lives in her fantasy world to protect herself against outside threats and her own insecurities. She uses these fantasies to create an illusion to convince not only others, but herself that she is still young, admired and of social standing.…

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    photograph of the actor playing Stanley, whose face I could not see from my seat. At the Writers’ Theatre production, the actor playing Stanley, Matt Hawkins, was never out of sight and always right there in front of my face. When he was fighting with Stella, Blanche, and Mitch, I feared he would turn at any moment and start a fight with me. And why not, since I was essentially sitting in his…

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    and also Stella. Sexuality is represented through Stanley, who is symbolic of the male population, who is allowed to be openly sexual and dominant but Stanley uses this as a control “Stanley uses his sexuality and aggression to assert his dominance in his household” (Shmoop Editorial Team). Society accepts sexual violence caused by the male of the house. This is shown through the appearance of the ‘blue piano’, which is a symbol for sensuality and sexuality, Stanley’s beating of Stella and the…

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    Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire is provocative and goes in depth with the lives of his poor creatures. The looming theme throughout the story is the tragedy and cruelty that is experienced or caused by those in Williams’ Elysian Fields. Although I feel a general sympathy for many of the characters and their circumstances, Blanche’s hardships are clearly outlined and plentiful, leading to a deep sympathy for her. Tennessee Williams’ makes Blanche’s unwarranted, selfish and…

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