Stella

However, she finds out that where Stella lives, named after the Greek version of the afterlife, is not the ideal version of heaven that she had hoped for. Desire, which she had been trying to escape, is rampant there and is more carnal than she could have ever imagined. With it looming over…

Gender Roles in a Streetcar Named Desire Tennesssee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire tells the story of Blanche Dubois as she arrives in New Orleans to visit her sister. Throughout the play, we see her sanity diminish until her departure. In this play, the theme of gender roles is explored through the representation of the male and female characters and through the symbol of the poker night. Williams shows the theme of gender roles through the characters and how they react to the different…

Stella Young “I'm Not Your Inspiration, Thank You Very Much” In her narrative “I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much” Stella Young spoke about how the term being disable was used as a form of inspiration instead of a normal everyday person. Stella speaks about her personal experience with the people believe that she is an inspiration when she has not done anything that can be considered an inspiration. She goes to the extent of talking about how the word disability is used.…

In A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley is extremely violent and vulgar to not only, his wife, Stella, but her sister Blanche. He will yell and physically abuse Stella when she talks back to him. When Blanche and Stanley have verbal tension Stanley rapes Blanche. Stanley feels the need to have dominance over the women in his life because he feels he is superior to them and that they…

want to eat! Ante up,” this shows his macho man side doesn’t like to lose at and would prefer that everyone complies to him and his needs making him the alpha (Tennessee 45). Later in the scene Stanley gets angry at Blanche and throws the radio which Stella starts to call him a “drunk animal” (Tennessee 57). He then quickly strikes her and gets pinned by the other men. Mitch orders the men to throw him in the shower, and as how Darwick says we see some of the homoerotic tendencies where Williams…

The American Dream is based on the principles of endless opportunity and second chances for all in a new world. The hope of possible success and progress along with the possible freedom from their past mistakes lures the disheartened to a place where no one might know their name. However, in actuality, second chances and rags-to-riches stories are a rare find. Reputations are difficult to escape, and temptations can cause old mistakes to reemerge. After Ms. Blanche DuBois journeys her…

for disaster. Well-known American playwright, Tennessee Williams, in 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…

Archer followed Justin’s lead and he too leaned up, facing his friend. “Justin, I think, I think I am falling for you.” “Archer are you sure. I don’t want to do anything to hurt you.” “Justin, since I have been with you, the voice in my head, that of my preacher, and that of my parents, and that of everyone who tells me that the way I feel is a one way ticket to hell, is finally quiet. You put my mind at peace.” Justin grabbed Archers face and brought it closer to his own. They then…

Blanche Dubois is the protagonist of the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” written by Tennessee Williams. Her character is portrayed as a middle aged woman who is supposed to be a going crazy because she drowns in her own thoughts. Blanche is able to keep her thoughts together, but “ critic Anca Vlasopolos interprets Blanche’s downfall as a demonstration of William’s sympathy for her circumstances and a condemnation of the society that destroys her” (Blanche Dubois An Antihero). Blanche herself…

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…