A Streetcar Named Desire Monologue

A Streetcar Named Desire is focused almost completely on its three protagonists: Blanche, Stella, and Stanley. It could be suggested that this play was influenced by Williams’ own upbringing: his sister Rose was mentally ill, and Williams’ was a doting older brother. Potentially, Blanche was inspired by Rose and that this play uses his unique perspective to comment on the treatment of the mentally ill. Williams may be using Stella’s conflict to highlight this.

Mama grabbed Sarah in her arms and ran out of the room. The look on her face scared me. I pulled the covers up over my

The play A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, is a play about a woman named Blanche Dubois who goes to live with her sister after she loses her home in Mississippi. Between the hardships of her previous life and the way she is treated now, she is not in a good way by the time the play ends. She basically has a mental breakdown. There are three stages of Blanche’s mental state. She lives in a fantasy, Mitch rejecting her, and Stanley raping her, Blanche is mentally unstable by the end of this ply.

and self - pitying ways from the death of her husband and the lies of

“I think it’s time I got you back to bed, I shall have a maid fetch you whatever books you want.”

In the opening two scenes of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams, the audience has its first and generally most important impressions formulated on characters, the plot and the mood and tone of the play overall.

Two cavemen stumble upon a burning log, neither familiar with fire, the first trusts his instincts proceeding to run away cowardly, he survives only to later die a lonely cold death succumbing to hypothermia; while the second takes the log to his cave and proceeds to thrive, living a long, prosperous life, despite being haunted by the fact his greatest accomplishment was picking up a exaggerated stick. See the first man trusted his instincts, a strategy that kept him alive until then, while the other took a risk and it payed off but we have those instincts because risks do not always pay off. These primal instincts allow humans to quickly fall back to the tried and trusted safe path but can also lead a person to do something to meet the needs

In many modern day relationships between a man and a woman, there is usually a controlling figure that is dominant over the other. It may be women over man, man over women, or in what the true definition of a marriage is an equal partnership. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Stanley is clearly the more dominant figure over Stella. Throughout the play there are numerous examples of the power he possesses of her. Williams portrays Stella as a little girl who lives around in Stanley’s world. She does what he wants, takes his abuse yet still loves him. Situations likes these may have occurred in the 1950’s and lasted, but in today’s time this would only end up in a

I agree that characters in the book A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, use lying and deception to fuel their social status. These lies develop trust and relationship issues and threaten the wellbeing of everyone involved. Blanche, was a high school english teacher in mississippi who was forced to leave her life behind there. With nowhere to go Blanche moves in with her sister Stella and husband Stanley, who has a suspicion about Blanche's past life which lead to some unwanted events.

That must be Blanche? I remember Stella talking about her sister once or twice, though Stella didn’t say anything about her coming into town. How rude that she’d just barge into my house like this, this is not hotel.This is getting me all worked up, I think I need a drink. What’s this? Looks like she’s already helped herself to a couple of drinks.

[Stella quietly closes a bedroom door off stage. Footsteps can be heard moving around. Off stage Stella opens another door.] [Off stage] Blance: [Smiling menacingly] Hello dear sister.

A tragic hero in literature is a type of character who has fallen from grace, where the downfall suggests feelings of misfortune and distress among the audience. The tragic flaw of the hero leads to their demise or downfall that in turn brings a tragic end. Aristotle defines a tragic hero as “a person who must evoke a sense of pity and fear in the audience. He is considered a man of misfortune that comes to him through error of judgment.” The characteristics of a tragic hero described by Aristotle are hamartia, hubris, peripeteia, anagnorisis, nemesis and catharsis which allows the audience to have a catharsis of arousing feelings.

Blanche,Colson is head of all attendance,let’s say you’ve been missing 4th period(right after lunch)if she notices and it keeps happening she’s gonna call you in and want to have a conversation to see what’s going on and she’s going to call home. If it continues to happen it’s going to turn into a detention and/or refferel .If you know you’re going to be absent make sure to let your teachers know and have your guardian call the head of attendance at 541-790-4459

In the beginning, it isn’t obvious that Blanche is mental instable especially since she later reveals her struggles of trying to keep Belle Reve. Even though in the beginning she breaks down when Stanley tries to read the letter from Allan Grey, this seems like a rather normal reaction since his suicide is still s0mething fresh in her mind. Later in the story when Blanche is telling Mitch of Allan Grey, it becomes apparent that there is something odd about her since she mentions how she hears the Varsouviana Polka, which then ends with a gunshot. Finally, it is revealed that Blanche lives in her own reality when Stanley confronts her (by telling her that he knows the bad reputation she has in Laurel and the action she

My aunt stuck her head into the bedroom and whispered to me, “Are you ready?” In the mirror I glanced at my dress a final time and fixed my hair again. “Ready” I said quietly, not believing it fully myself.