Essay On Blanche In A Streetcar Named Desire

Blanche displays inappropriate behavior. She gets kicked out of the high school for mixed up with a seventeen year old boy. “They kicked her out of the high school before the spring term ended and I hate to tell you the reason that step was taken! A seventeen years old boy she had gotten mixed up with(122)”. By Blanche's inappropriate behavior she had lost her job and respect, moreover, it leads her to become broke. The mayor of Laurel forced Blanche to leave the town because she pretend that she was rich, and dated multiple men in town. After they found out the truth they quit but Blanche hadn't stop dating different men.” She's practically told by the mayor to get out of the town” (121). By her inappropriate behavior, she had been kicked

Blanche needs Mitch as a stabilizing force in her life; if her relationship with him fails, she knows she faces a world that offers few prospects for a financially challenged, unmarried woman approaching middle age. She tacitly admits to Mitch that she needs him when she accepts his embrace, but her fears of acknowledging her past and current situation overpower her and prevent her from telling the full truth. She hides her past not only from Mitch, but also from herself because to acknowledge it is to also admit the unhealthy choices she has made. When Stanley tells Mitch about Blanche’s blemished past Mitch recognizes that Blanche’s deceptions have relied on a symbolic and literal darkness which obscures reality. When Mitch asks Blanche to be honest about herself she says, “I don’t want realism. I want Magic! I don’t tell truth, I tell what ought to be the truth” (145). In these lines Blanche clearly expresses her desire not to deal with reality; this inability to face her circumstances signifies that Blanche is not recovering from her mental stress, but rather descending further into it. Blanche becomes desperate and delusional and her descent into mental

The reader may view Blanche as someone who tried to escape her sordid past in Laurel and wanted to start a new life with her sister, yet due to the continuous investigations from Stanley, was unable to do so. Stanley reveals Blanches’ lies and deceits, commenting on them as her ‘same old act, same old hooey!’ This tells the reader that his research of Blanches’ past is way of stopping her from finding a new life. Blanche attempts to redeem her life by finding love with Mitch, yet Stanley again reveals to Mitch that she was not ‘straight’, resulting in Mitch not wanting to be with her and also contributing to her fate. Stanley, after mercilessly divulging all her truths and bringing her to the edge of her mental capacity, rapes Blanche which brought about her final collapse. The reader may view Stella as someone at blame for her sisters’ fate, as though she shows some moral support of Blanches’ situation and listens to what she has to say, Stella continuously throughout the play neglects to notice Blanches slow mental deterioration and ignores Blanches’ outcries and incessant need for attention. Stella chooses Stanley over Blanche, despite her warnings about him being ‘volatile, violent and sub-human which represents not

She had invited Mitch to her birthday dinner, but Stanley had already told him all the bad things about her past. This is when she starts to slip. She tries to make conversation and tell jokes with Stanley, but obviously, he isn’t having it. The point where it is evident that she is really slipping is when Stanley says he has a gift for her. “Oh, have you [a gift for me], Stanley? I wasn’t expecting any, I—I wasn’t expecting any. I—I don’t know why Stella wants to observe my birthday! I’d much rather forget it—when you—reach twenty-seven! Well—age is a subject that you’d prefer to—ignore!” (Williams 135). Blanche is thirty years old. This goes back into the fantasy idea. She uses it as a coping mechanism. Finally, there is something going good in her life, and that is roughly

The arts stir emotion in audiences. Whether it is hate or humor, compassion or confusion, passion or pity, an artist's goal is to construct a particular feeling in an individual. Tennessee Williams is no different. In A Streetcar Named Desire, the audience is confronted with a blend of many unique emotions, perhaps the strongest being sympathy. Blanch Dubois is presented as the sympathetic character in Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire as she battles mental anguish, depression, failure and disaster.

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

From the moment Mitch and Blanche met it was a strong connection, it had the sense of love, but that feeling of love changed to a feeling of betrayal and disgust; Once Mitch was informed of Blanche's web of lies and her horrible past. It started off with a little “fib” as Blanches says, about her age. From there it got worse, she betrayed Mitch by breaking his trust because she never told him about her dirty past. Blanche tried to cover it up by putting a filter over her personality, and that filter was her long gone southern morals. She had tried to hide her bad past from just lying to Mitch and deceiving him, acting as if he wasn't smart enough to find out. But the time did come for Mitch to find out about this ultimate betrayal of his trust, and once mitch confirmed the information about Blanche's past ; that feeling of love transformed to rear its ugly head of deception to symbolize what his relationship with Miss Blanche Dubois really was; just a

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Throughout Tennessee William’s play “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Blanche Dubois exemplified several tragic flaws. She suffered from her haunting past; her inability to overcome; her desire to be someone else; and from the cruel, animalistic treatment she received from Stanley. Sadly, her sister Stella also played a role in her downfall. All of these factors ultimately led to Blanche’s tragic breakdown in the end.

Blanche, in the climax of the story, lies to her brother-in-law, Stanley, saying, “Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable. It is the one unforgivable thing in my opinion and it is the one thing of which I have never, never been guilty” (Williams 156-157). Blanche plainly contradicts herself when she admitted earlier to her boyfriend that a deliberate act of cruelty on her part led to the death of her first husband. She lies about this because it distances herself from the uncouth, unrefined behaviour she so

When Blanche meets Mitch, she realises that her is someone who can give her a sense of belonging and who is also captivated by her “girlish” charms. She deceives him into thinking her, as she would like to be –prim and proper – however, as she later tells Mitch: “Inside, I never lied”. Her essential nature and being have been changed by her promiscuity – She gave her body to any man, but it would appear, that to Mitch, she is ready to give her whole being. Mitch falls in love with Blanches world of

The end of Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is filled with turmoil, as Blanche is being taken away by a doctor while Stanley and his friends are playing poker. The main cause of this chaos is due to the fact that Stanley raped Blanche in the scene before, however Stella chooses not to believe her sister. Stella states, “I couldn’t believe her story and go on living with Stanley” (Williams 165), showing that Stella made her choice between her sister and her husband, a long anticipated moment since the beginning of the play. It was always known that Stella would choose Stanley, and always will choose him, because he is the man she loves and the one she chose to marry. However, despite the fact that this was seemingly the right choice to make, especially since Stella

This later foreshadows her relationship with Mitch. As the readers know Blanche is five years older than Stella, Mitch does not. She tries to cover it up by wearing white cloths which represents purity and innocence, which she is not. After a whole summer of dating, Mitch realizes he hasn’t had a good look at Blanche, “You never want to go out till after six and then it’s always some place that’s not lighted much (Williams 144).” Blanche has been avoiding Mitch throughout the day time by making excuses why she cannot see him, when in reality she looks younger in the dark.

The play A Streetcar Named Desire revolves around Blanche DuBois; therefore, the main theme of the drama concerns her directly. In Blanche is seen the tragedy of an individual caught between two worlds-the world of the past and the world of the present-unwilling to let go of the past and unable, because of her character, to come to any sort of terms with the present. The final result is her destruction. This process began long before her clash with Stanley Kowalski. It started with the death of her young husband, a weak and perverted boy who committed suicide when she taunted him with her disgust at the discovery of his perversion. In retrospect, she knows that he was the only man she had ever loved, and from this early catastrophe

Blanche's tragic flaw that cause her downfall or hamartia is her reliant on men, so much so that she makes choices and does things that are morally questionable. She manipulates and lies to potential suitors to make herself seem more attractive and younger-which in her mind is the only way a man will love her. She does this with Harold "Mitch" Mitchell and it seems to be working until Mitch is informed of all the lies he's been fed, at which point Mitch breaks up with Blanche and leaves her vulnerable for Stanley to