Comparison Of Troy From Fences And Blanche From A Streetcar Named Desire

The text from A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie, both written by the renowned author Tennessee Williams, deal with the topics of life's pressures, and the desire to succeed in everything we do. Oftentimes, people place unrealistic expectations upon us and set the bar higher than we can achieve, or even want to reach. People end up developing mechanisms to deal with these stresses and tensions that have been created (Billington 2016). We find other unhealthy habits and vices to supplant the reality we are trying to escape, that hopefully will take away this pain and suffering we are experiencing. In both of these plays, the characters are not able to live in their present realities. Two of the main characters are closely listate.

This poem connects to themes from King Lear, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Great Gatsby, Things Fall Apart, and The Heart of Darkness. The theme it connects to in King Lear is the what for power. In the poem, the character has a choice to choose power and therefore better himself and his circumstances. The theme it connects to in A Streetcar Named Desire is vanity. In the poem, the character doesn't want to give up his vanity much like Blanche in the play. The theme it connect to in The Great Gatsby is the hollowness of the upper social class. In the poem, the character has to choose between being in the upper social class or being happy. In other words, being apart of the upper class brings no happiness to the character. The theme it connects

due to her past blanche’s actions are unusual and to many they are considered inappropriate. Blanche lives through some very dark and intense incidents before the play takes place, she witnesses the death of her entire family, she loses her family home, and to add to the misery she believes she is the reason her husband killed himself. In an act to move on she retreats into illusion acting as if these incidents never happened. Blanche decides to lie to everyone, from her sister to the man she potentially wanted to marry, she does not give them the truth. She wants to marry mitch but does not tell him about her past, mitch had all right to know, yet she led him on, actions like these in an environment of connection is inappropriate beyond a doubt. Because of her lies and illusions Blanche ends up losing everything, she loses her only chance at a future with Mitch and her freedom when she is sent to the mental institution. Blanches motivation by the past caused her life around her dissolve.

Before one can understand Blanche's character, one must understand the reason why she moved to New Orleans and joined her sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley. By analyzing the symbolism in the first scene, one

In Streetcar, Blanche’s past prevents her from flourishing because she is unable to move past it. When Blanche was extremely young she got married to a young boy named Allan and she admits that she “made the discovery- love. All at once and much, much too completely” (Williams 114). Her dream of having the perfect life with Allan is ruined when she finds out he is gay.

Naz Ismael The poison of lies The two protagonists of “ A Streetcar Named Desire” and “ Death Of A Salesman” try to escape the realities of their lives by creating an ulterior reality for themselves. Blanche and Willy flee the reality of their physical existence and decide to mentally live in an ulterior world in an attempt to escape the cruelty of their lives especially the insanity and the deaths that surround them. The pain in their lives scratches and wounds them deeply, and this pain spreads like an infection and takes over their beings more and more with every lie.

Blanche Dubois is a southern debutante who has lost everything most valuable to her. She lost the family’s mansion due to the deaths of family members. It broke the inheritance that she had with Stella. She’s a fallen woman in the eyes of society.

Blanche is a broken woman in the eyes of everyone around her. You can see how her break with reality affect her beauty, mind, and relationship. All through the play,

A point for Blanche is that she is fear of aging and get lost of beauty. She is scared on  appear on bright light which will reveal her look to Mitch. In scene one, the author Williams make Blanche life of sexual going down like when her husband’s suicide result from her disapproval of his homosexuality which lead to a unwanted end. In scene nine, where the Mexican woman appears selling “flowers for the dead” which made Blanche reacts with panic feeling inside of her like she don’t know what to do. The author uses Blanche experience of sex and death are link up together.

As someone who is fragile and very insecure Blanche doesn’t know how too coop after she found her husband in bed with another man. She moves in with her sister in New Orleans and tries too filling her emptiness with sex instead of dealing with her true emotions. “After the death of Allan-intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with." (Page 146) Blanche is a character that prefers too live in her own imagination, with no sense of what really is reality. As she continues too act upon her insecurities trying too shove down the feelings of loosing her husband, Blanche’s instability grows along with her misfortunes. Into the story Blanche forms a relationship with Mitch, who is easily influenced and does not seem

First off, in the movie, Blanche DuBois comes to New Orleans and is shocked by how different everything is from where she is originally from. She explains to her sister, Stella that she needs a break from teaching and doesn’t want to be alone. Stella’s husband, Stanley, meets Blanche and starts questioning her past, Blanche gets upset and starts feeling sick.The next night

Blanche is a complex character, with her past concealed through her lies and the fantasies that she has created. Stella, her sister, understands that she tends to avoid the truth, denying reality.

Blanche Dubois, from A Streetcar Named Desire, carries the heavy burden of her past. Blanche was in love with a young man. She discovered her husband in bed with an older man, someone whom she had believed was just his friend. When confronted about the incident, he took his own life by shooting himself in the head. Compounding the sorrow of her husband’s violent suicide, Blanche becomes increasingly fragile with the loss of the DuBois family home, Belle Reve. After the death of her parents, she goes through many financial and personal struggles. Blanche has always been burdened by her tormenting past, the loss of

While drinking heavily after Mitch’s refusal to marry her, her delusional madness worsens. With very little self esteem left Blanche begins to pretend that there are people

Most stories have the plot if the protagonist being victorious. This contrast with A Streetcar Named Desire-a play by Tennessee Williams. Blanche, one of the protagonist in this story is the main source of several injustices. In fact, she has the horrible treatment of her brother in law, Stanley; who sexually abuses her. William focuses the character Blanche in streetcar named Desire in order to develop themes and generate sympathy from the audience.