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A Streetcar Named Desire
As your assignment sheet suggests that you will need to write an outline as your first step, this response will address how you might structure your outline and essay. Introduction: You might argue...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Stella and Blanche deal with a great many conflicts throughout the story. I'll break the conflicts up by character, and then I'll further break them down into internal and external conflicts....
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Julian in Hellman's play Toys in the Attic and Mitch in Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire are similar in that they are both devoted to female members of their families. Julian's two sisters, Anna...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
One function of sisterhood in Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is to provide doubles who illustrate the stark contrast between magic and realism, a very powerful theme in this play....
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Each of the characters in the play has different desires. Many of these desires are destructive. Let's start with Stella. Stella wants a peaceful existence, a family life, and her husband...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
The sharp contrasts between the Kowalski and DuBois worlds comprise the central conflict in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. While Blanche DuBois has cultivated a careful facade...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
One of the many themes in A Streetcar Named Desire has to do with sentimentality versus realism. Blanche represents the romantic and idealistic values of the Old South, whereas Stanley represents...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams's play could be read in the context of Postmodernism, for it explores the ways in which certain remnants of America's history clash with what the nation became after World War...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Toward the end of the play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche meets her tragic end. She is sexually violated by her sister's husband, Stanley. This was the culmination of a cycle of bullying,...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche and Stella are sisters, but their personalities are very different. Blanche is a romantic, and speaks in lyrical language that often uses figurative language or references poets or writers....
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Stanley first starts to express suspicion over Blanche's character when he learns that Belle Rive has been "sold" but that Blanche has not shown Stella any papers to prove this--not even the deed...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
The most important example of nostalgia in the play is Belle Reve, the Mississippi plantation on which Blanche and Stella grew up. Blanche later reveals to her sister that the property has been...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche is one of two main characters in Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire, which debuted in 1949. In the play, Blanche is an English teacher, though she leaves her position when...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Many characters experience loneliness in this play, but the one who could be said to be the most lonely- and who acts upon that loneliness- is Blanche DuBois. Blanche spends all of her time in the...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
The background to Stella and Stanley's marriage is not explained directly in the play, but Stella's reasons for marrying Stanley are implied. It is implied in the play that Stella met Stanley in...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
The arrival of Stanley Kowalski’s wife’s troubled sister, Blanche, presages dramatic revelations and conflict between the characters in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Stanley...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In scene 8 of A Streetcar Named Desire, all of Stanley's annoyances about Blanche and her attitude towards him, as well as, all of the insecurities this seems to bring up, comes to a head. He's...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche arrives at her sister Stella's home via just such a streetcar, both literally and metaphorically. "Desire" refers to Blanche's previous...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Though the first question you asks takes a more critical look at Blanche and the latter a more compassionate perspective, both "unstable" and "misunderstood" are accurate words to describe her...
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Waiting for Godot
I don't know exactly what the nature of your assignment is, but generally in literary criticism the more specific the better. I would not focus on all of these topics. I would pick one and do an...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
This is a very good question. Stella's pregnancy may have several functions, such as being a very conspicuous symbol of the exceptionally powerful sexual relationship between her and Stanley and...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche loses her mind after losing the family home. It is clear that whatever mental stability Blanche had cracked when she lost the family homestead, Belle Reve. It is the last in a long line of...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley's resentment of Blanche is a significant part of his character. Blanche views Stanley in a negative light. She says to Stella that he is "not the type to go...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche DuBois has many disadvantages. She has lost Belle Reve, her ancestral home. She has just lost her job as a high-school English teacher because of her predilection for seducing young boys....
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A Streetcar Named Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the most important plays in American history. Today, the play has significance in many ways. The first of these is that it defined an important genre in American...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
You are perfectly correct in thinking that violence and softness, or violence versus softness, are important to Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire. The primary conflict is between Blanche...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Stella and Stanley are married. Eunice and Steve are married. This makes Blanche seem all the more the solitary and needy outsider. Eunice and Steve are friends and neighbors of Stella and Stanley....
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A Streetcar Named Desire
When Mitch confronts Blanche in Scene Nine he recalls that she never wanted to go out with him in the daytime but always made some excuse not to go out until after six and then to some place that...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
I don't know a whole lot about French, but isn't it possible that the feminine form of the adjective is used because the name is not referring to a dream but to a house or a plantation? Both maison...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Scholars have often considered Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire to be a historical play about the transition of the American South into the modern era. In this reading, Blanche DuBois...
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Othello
In The Oxford Shakespeare: Othello, The Moor of Venice (2006), editor Michael Neill lays out various scholars' arguments that some of the off-stage action found in Shakespeare's Othello concerns...
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Othello
The reason this is such a complicated essay to write is that it seems to lack focus and rationale. There seems no inherent logic to the selection of books, two plays and a novel from very different...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Stella is caught in the middle between two very powerful personalities. When she was living at Belle Rive, Blanche was her big sister, a person she looked up to, and she naturally falls back into...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Your question refers to Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire. The first long stage direction appears at the beginning of Scene One. The direction includes the following pertaining to "sight":...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
New Orleans is, perhaps, the closest one can get to the experience of a European city without actually visiting Europe. For, the French Quarter has been fairly well preserved as it originally was...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
An anachronism is defined as "something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time, especially a thing or person that belongs to an earlier time." Belle Reve, the...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Arguably the question is asking you to analyze the contrast between how individuals act behind closed doors, and how they appear in the presence of society. It is all part of the assumed...
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Pygmalion
These three plays span the entire twentieth century with Pygmalion first presented in 1913 (published in 1917), A Streetcar Named Desire in 1947, and Master Harold... And the Boys in 1982. Despite...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
This quote is from Scene 9 of A Streetcar Named Desire when Mitch and Blanche break up after Stanley uncovers to Mitch the reality about Blanche's sexual past. Mitch is disgusted and upset; he no...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
New Orleans is a port city. It is located on the Gulf of Mexico. There is also a huge lake, Lake Pontchatrain, and, of course, the Mississippi River which empties into the Gulf. With all this...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
While Beckett's existential play Waiting for Godot is certainly no drama with the emotional intensity of Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire, the two plays do share some existential motifs which...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche is attracted to young boys. She lost her job as a high school teacher because she got improperly involved with an adolescent boy. She is a romanticist. She believes in love but is afraid of...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
One concurrent strand that runs between both Williams and Fitzgerald is the hollow and sometimes fraudulent nature of the American Dream. Both works show how the American Dream works for some and...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
I think that it is very difficult to divorce the autobiographical elements from Williams's work. This becomes especially valid in A Streetcar Named Desire. There are two specific quotes from...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In his play A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams utilizes three streets as metaphors for the development of the main character, Blanche DuBois. Foreshadowing this characterization of Blanche...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Blanche wishes to sustain the illusion that she is very ladylike and guilless, pure, young, and, although a sexually desirable person, she is respectable. Significantly, Blanche du Bois's name...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Desire and Death BLANCHE:They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and ride six blocks and get off at --Elysian Fields! These words in the opening...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
Tennessee Williams once described his life as a "loneliness that follows me like a shadow." Such a condition reflects how there is not a valiant and triumphant condition of what it means to be...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
It is interesting to note in the beginning of Scene One when Blanche DuBois first steps off the streetcar, the stage directions describe her as "daintily dressed" and having "a delicate beauty"...
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A Streetcar Named Desire
In this scene, men and women are presented as occupying different and distinct spheres, but there are crossovers between the two which are significant in terms of illustrating the balance of power...