Stella Kowalski

Stanislavski did not want his students to forget the audience, he just wanted them to have the appropriate awareness while on stage. He wanted the audience to still be aware of them as the audience plays a huge part in theatre. I think his idea of concentrating on something on stage, to keep the focus off the audience, is a good idea. He thought if his actors observed the object intensively enough, a desire would arise in them, to do something with it. Although, the actors lost basic faculties…

Blanche arrives in New Orleans after having lost her family's tobacco plantation, with nothing but a trunk of clothes and her sexual desire to call her own. When first arriving in New Orleans, her sister's husband Stanley attempts to treat Blanche as any gentleman would, however Blanche refuses to ablige by his rules, and as the plot of the play continues Stanley starts to take any power that Blanche has left, until she is empty of any and has become completely marginalized. Stanley contributes…

As the story progresses into scene 2, the need for more information about Blanche becomes necessary for both the reader and for Stanley to form an opinion about her. The two characters have already begun their power play, each with the goal of gaining the dominance and control over the narrative of Blanche’s past. It is in these scenes as more of Blanche’s past is discovered that the shift of the protagonist begins to happen. Stanley learns of Blanche’s association with the Flamingo Hotel in…

Les Belles Soeurs, by Michel Tremblay is a play written in 1965 that addresses the issue of women socio economic constraints due to their language, greed and jealousy towards each other. The play is based on women working class struggles and the need to get wealth at any cost possible. Did you ever think of winning big? Well Germaine Lauzon a middle aged housewife in her forties certainly has and have boasted proudly about her winnings. She is a working class woman that is accustomed to a life…

been the character that was associated with illusions of reality; because of this insanity it pushed her further into her fantasies throughout the play. But now it is Stella who has been trapped in a fantasy, because she denies the excessive violence that comes with living with Stanley. Blanche told Stella of what Stanley did, but Stella does not want to believe that Stanley had raped her sister in the previous scene when Stanley said to Blache “Oh! So you want some rough-house! Alright, let’s…

Tennessee Williams in his play A Streetcar Named Desire explores the natural state of man and his primitive desires and actions. Through his characters, Stanley and Blanche, he shows how the two sides of man’s natural state. William’s goal is shown in the 1951 production of the play starring Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh. In this production the play is acted out in a way that allows all audiences to grasp the underlying theme while remaining entertaining and engaging to the audience. The…

in one fatal way. A). In Scene 4 Blanche uses the image of “that rattle-trap street-car” to explain her sexual desire to her sister, Stella. Williams uses Blanche to explain that if one is driven by desire, it is inevitable that self-destruction occurs soon hereafter. Williams stresses Blanche’s ordained fate with the use of the streetcar image. Debatably Stella is also driven by the same force of desire because she dropped everything to be with Stanley. Her final ending is not clear, however.…

After she grew up Stella met Stanly and left Bella Rev, but Blanch never left and has never had the opportunity to adapt to the different living styles as people in New Orleans have. At the beginning, it is very clear that Blanch does not like Stanly; she referred to him…

She realizes that she isn’t as beautiful and pure as she once was. She knows her youth is lost. When Blanche was staying with Stella and Stanley a Mexican woman, trying to sell flowers, walks by saying, “Flores? Flores para los muertos,” (148). It translates to, “flowers? Flowers for the dead.” It represents how her youth withered away from her, and all this time was wasted on…

been butting heads. They clearly do not get along as well as Stella had hoped. Yet, there is a strange feeling in the air every time they are around each other. What is it? Well according to Cardullo the feeling that arises everytime they are together must be physical attraction and desire. He states in his comprehension of Streetcar that, “because he has been physically attracted to her from the start and has…