Blanche Dubois In A Streetcar Named Desire

Summary: In the play “A streetcar Named Desire” it centers on a women named Blanche Dubois. She travels from the railroad in New Orleans to a street formally known as Elysian Fields, where she meets her pregnant sister Stella and her husband Stanly Kowalski. Having lost her homestead, husband and fortification, Blanche turns to her only close relative for support. Reaching middle age, Blanche emotionally is unhinged and is in financial crises with the loss of her southern bell life. After explaining

The character of Blanche Dubois in the play A Streetcar Named Desire is depicted as a victim of her traditional southern upbringing, she struggles to find her place in society where the values of a Southern Belle are no longer relevant nor exist. Blanche Dubois is portrayed as the weaker sex, who is then over powered by Stanley Kowalski, her sister’s working class husband. Blanche Dubois shows a great psychological instability when she is unable to live up to the expectations of a classic and proper

In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois desires to be viewed as a pure and innocent girl despite her sex and scandal filled past. In Scene 5, Blanche attempts to explain the way someone needs to look if they want to come off as innocent and appealing: “When people are soft---soft people have got to shimmer and glow---they’ve got to put on soft colors, the colors of butterfly wings, and put a---paper lantern over the light. . . . It isn’t enough to be soft. You’ve got to be

20 What Blanche means when she says “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers” that due to her past issues and conflicts that Blanche experienced she desires that attention and compliments from strangers and eventually counted on the kindness to make her feel more confident and fulfill her emptiness along with all the insecurities she had. Blanche usually wants someone to be with her to say they love her in order for her to feel happy. The reason for that is because Blanche doesn't all

One of the main themes in A Streetcar Named Desire is madness. Blanche is used to depict madness throughout the play. Her madness stems from one specific event: the suicide of her late husband, Allan. She feels as though she was the one who pushed him to kill himself. While telling the story of Allan to Mitch, she says, “It was because of－on the dance-floor－unable to stop myself－I’d suddenly said－‘I saw! I know! You disgust me…’”(96). The tremendous guilt that she feels contributes to her downfall

or more tragic heroes within them; A Streetcar Named Desire is no exception. According to Dr. Hebert, a tragic hero must meet the following criteria: they “must be Noble, have a tragic flaw such as hubris, they go through a sequence of fall, suffering, learning, and punishment, and there must be an emotional

The Tragic Character of Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire *No Works Cited To state the obvious, a tragic agent is one that is the subject of a tragic event or happening. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois is this agent. She experiences numerous things, and has certain dynamics that solidify her tragic elements. Many essayists describe these elements and they give clear conceptions of her tragic nature. Aristotle has written of many qualities one must have in order to fit in

encompassing their own destruction.” (Gassner 463). Fitting Gassner’s definition of a tragic character, Blanche DuBois in Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire caustically leads herself to her own downfall. In the beginning of the play, Blanche DuBois, a “belle of the old South” (Krutch 40), finds herself at the footsteps of her sister and brother-in-law’s shabby apartment in New Orleans. Although DuBois portrays herself as a refined and sophisticated woman, the reader soon comes to realize that, hiding

damaged character of Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire is led to her own psychological death due to her tendencies towards idealism. The streetcar that held the name desire promised a future for Blanche, it held empty promises of fulfillment that caused an immense amount of pain in miss Dubois's life. The car took her away from her own life and brought her to her own psychological graveyard hidden behind the promise of a perfect and respectful future. The first stop of desire was a transfer to

Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois fully epitomizes a damsel in distress struggling with the baggage of her past. Having faced rough circumstances, her loneliness leads her into a world of fantasy where she can play the role of a Southern belle, pure and fragile. Unfortunately, masking the true circumstances of her present only works for so long; in the end, she finds herself as the tragic heroine of Williams’ tale, bound to fall from grace. Therefore, in A Streetcar Named Desire the character