Stella Kowalski

Dr. Armin Tehrany has once again shown his love and support for the movie industry. The second movie Dr. Tehrany is proudly part of called “Thirst Street” is set to have the world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival next month in the US Narrative Competition. For this highly, Dr. Tehrany gladly joins the movie team as one of the executive producers. The “Thirst Street” is an intriguing retro-style psychodrama directed by Nathan Silver, and written by Silver and C. Mason Wells. This…

In Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf and in A Streetcar Named Desire, Edward Albee and Tennessee Williams use fear and anxiety to present social criticism. Through symbolism, subtext and stage direction, high emotional tension becomes a focal point which allows audiences to question the morality of both the characters’ choices and their own. Symbolism in both plays demonstrate fear of reality. In A Streetcar Named Desire, “delicate beauty” (1. 5) Blanche DuBois uses darkness as a method of…

Moreover, Blanche Ingram is portrayed as being a villain. Among the entirety of the novel, Blanche’s morals were far off from what’s considered to be just. She pretends to love Edward Rochester and embarks on a journey of total deceit. When it was falsely speculated that Rochester lost all his money and was no longer wealthy, Blanche’s interest towards him fell faster than anyone could “I told you so.” Thus, proving that Blanche was only captivated by the wealth and status of Rochester. Without…

her sister’s husband trust, and him violently forcing himself onto her. Blanche is looking for love and wanting someone to love her since losing her husband. Blanche seeks out her sister Stella who lives in New Orleans Louisiana. Blanche sister is married to a man name Stanley who has control over what her Stella does in life. Blanche being in an emotional state looks to Stanley friend Mitch…

The short story “A Mere interlude” written by Thomas Hardy makes effective use of narrative voice to reveal the intentions of Hardy in crafting such a story. The irony of the title, as what was supposed to be “A Mere Interlude”, Baptista’s short and tragic marriage to her ex-lover Charles Stow, eventually takes form as a major turning point in her life. It subjects her to much emotional turmoil and eventually leads her back to the one thing she hoped to escape from through her marriage to…

way in which she’s forced to become an outsider in the community with flirtation with student Blanche, having grown up in Belle Reve, is used to a totally different culture than to that of New Orleans. This can be shown when Blanche questions Stella and asks if the types of people in New Orleans are “heterogeneous-types?” By heterogeneous types, Blanche is referring to the diversity of class and race. Back in her hometown, people are typically…

overwhelming sense of power supporting it. Throughout Tennessee Williams’ hit play, A Streetcar Named Desire, the marginalization of women, homosexuals, and the mentally unstable is a strong motif within the text. Individually, the characters of Stella Kowalski, Allan Grey, and Blanche DuBois represent these three marginalized social groups, respectively. Growing up as a symbol in itself of marginalization, Williams utilizes these three characters to emphasize the struggles of silenced social…

transition as is depicted through Blanche's fading southern values being compromised by the emerging New America that is represented by Stanley Kowalski. A dominant masculinity is presented via Stanley through brutal dialogue and shocking plot developments. A Streetcar named Desire is a dramatic text that revolves around Blanche DuBois and her visit to her sister, Stella…

importance of the characterization of Stanley and Stella Kowalski, stressing why their actions fit the definition of a batterer and the battered. Suggesting a call for awareness, Koprince categorizes the play as being cruelly tragic and ghastly. Domestic violence was not publicized during the 1940s and it wasn’t until the later part of the twentieth century that people started to realize how horrible…

Playwright Tennessee Williams was been on March 26, 1911, in Columbus, Mississippi. After college, he moved to New Orleans, a city that would inspire much of his writings. Williams was predominantly raised by his mother and had a complicated relationship with his father a demanding salesman who preferred work instead of parenting. Williams’s childhood home was very tense which in turn gave him inspiration for his works. “I was not aware of how much vital energy had gone into struggle until the…