Act 1 : Scene Of The Inner City Area Of Detroit Essay

A short amount of time has passed after Blanche’s encounter with the stranger following the departure of her to the mental institute, Blanche is wearing her piece of silky white robe. In her bag is a small bottle half full of liquor that she has slipped past the doctor. Whilst Blanche drinks to escape the feeling of regret she sings “Paper Moon” just so the doctor in the front seat of the car cannot hear her. Constantly taking sips of the strong liquor, she hums the song to herself until there is no more liquid in the glass bottle. Blanche looks up into the ceiling and tips the bottle upside down in hopes of the small puddle at the bottom to come out. With no liquor left in the bottle, Blanche frustratingly throws the bottle out of the window

In American society, race and racial issues are viewed in a black and white manner. The media portrays matters of race in the simplest terms without taking intersectionality into account. Social class, economic factors, and historical factors impact how racial issues are regarded and handled in specific geographic locations. John Hartigan demonstrates this in his book, Racial Situations: Class Predicaments of Whiteness of Detroit, which describes the dynamics of three local communities: Briggs, Cork Town, and Warrendale. Hartigan examines how white identity varies in these three neighborhoods due to other social factors. Comparing how these local communities respond to race versus the media’s response shows how categorizing people into monolithic groups based only on race is a tactic that ignores the real issues and delays finding solutions.

“She married. O, most wicked speed, to post, It is not, nor it cannot come to good. But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue” (Shakespeare 1.2.62-63). The play “Hamlet” by Shakespeare and one of Tennessee Williams famous book called “A Streetcar Named Desire” are very similar. Both of these works go along perfectly with W.E.B. Du Bois’s short story “The Comet.” In “Hamlet” and “A Streetcar Named Desire” these plays contain a tragic genre, characterization in main characters, and relationships between the characters and these works relate a lot to “The Comet.”

In Scene 4 of A Streetcar Named Desire, examples of Blanche’s material and emotional hold over Stella are presented, yet leads to display how the roles will reverse at the end of the play as the audience view Blanche breakdown due to the combination of her past and her new morally-grey environment, which is shown through the racial and sexist abuse that both Blanche and the residents of Elysian Fields display. This extract is particularly significant in highlighting these traits due to its placement after a case of Stanley’s true temper showing through, coupled with the fact that Stella and Blanche believe themselves to be alone, which in turn allows Blanche to display what her true nature and worries over what is to come at the end of the

“You’re welcome,” Joe said. “I’ll follow you back to Johnny’s room. I’d like to check on him myself.”

It was taken place in the mid- 1960's. Lorraine Jenson and John Conlan go to Franklin High School. This background information effected the plot because now you can't skip school without getting a call from the school to your parents. This is why the setting information effeced the plot.

Tennessee Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire around 1947. Williams based the play off of the moral values of his time period. Growing up in the forties, Williams identified with the traditional relationship between a man and woman. However, the relationship between two main characters, Stella and Stanley, push traditional boundaries. Williams represents the post-structuralism theory in the characters’ relationships.

In "A Streetcar Named Desire", Tennessee Williams leaves a large amount of stage direction to the actor and the director. The choices in the performance made by the latter can neither be right nor wrong, as there are so many options open for artistic interpretation. The extract from Scene three is no exception and within the dialogue there are numerous suggestions for explanation of characters, music, setting and forewarning for the audience.

Tennessee Williams represents the characters through his own background. The fact that he was from a dysfunctional background and the difficulty of his family life really does symbolise how he came about creating the characters in A Streetcar Named Desire. In this essay, the aim will be to highlight the concepts and themes behind the characters in terms of loneliness, odd, faded and frightened using firm references from the play and how they are symbolic of Williams. The first character who is clearly in distress and feeling lonely is Blanche.

In chapter 19 Jamie climbed slowly into the car from on of the mysterious men .Jamie wants hum to promised to leave the girl and him alone .When they leav Jamie and Abby alone they will see the money .Jamie also put jim under pressure with an video wich not existet .The men agree and Jamie climbed out of the car .

When Montano asks Cassio that is Othello married or not.Cassio replied: “he hath achieved a maid.That paragons description and wild fame;One that excels the quirks of blazoning pens,And in the essential vesture of creation,Does tire the ingener”(2.1.66-72).

A Streetcar Named Desire continues to build suspense among every page and through every act. Scene six begins with Mitch and Blanche returning from a long night out. Blanche insists that since the man and lady of the house aren’t home yet, that he come in. She leaves the lights off while she explains to him that Stanley simply doesn’t like her. Also, she tells him the story of when she was younger and how the boy that she loved and married had cheated on her with a man. It is then the next scene and considered to be Blanche’s birthday. Stanley tells Stella many lies that he found that Blanche had dug herself into while Blanche was taking a warm bath to calm her nerves. Stella refused to believe them! Meanwhile, the three occupied chairs

To Kill a Mockingbird and A StreetCar Named Desire there is a common force that surrounds both stories of Blanche and Finches. That is that society has failed to support and have the same ideas as both main characters. When a person is not receiving any support and is going through a bitter moments, they can really fall of the deep end and or can choose to live in denial. Blanche is a perfect example of how events can really shatter a person into many pieces and can leave the real world into a land of imagination. The same goes for the Finch family, the kids believe that that their beliefs are the same throughout their small community, yet they are hit with the blunt truth. The books both share how their cases of unfair events become worse and worse throughout the story , all of this ties back to society being unfair.

Scene three, the poker night, an extract from Tennessee Williams’s renowned play Streetcar Named Desire the play was written in 1947 and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948.

Social upheaval in many senses was explicit through the beginning of the twentieth century. 2 world wars had shifted the balance of power between men and women. Women were increasingly employed to fill positions which had previously been considered masculine. This was not to last however, and by the fifties men had reassumed their more dominant role in society. People were finding new voices at this time by taking pre-existing forms and pushing the boundaries to re-voice established literary forms. Tennessee Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire around the time this reversal was occurring in American society. Williams was a homosexual from the deep south of America, and his play is about physical, emotional and sexual conflict. We also see a discourse about the qualities of an Old South and a New America. It is an astute depiction of the continual metamorphosis gender roles were encountering; and in the play Williams highlights this gender struggle to represent the continual fight for supremacy on the one hand and equality on the other in the home between men and women and in the country between the Old south and the New America. Williams depicts "otherness" describing how people are marginalized and objected from society, for example Mitch and Blanche, he is also interested in femininity. Williams take on femininity is interesting as his female characters are central figures that are focused on as primary desiring subjects.