Stanley Motivation

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

Although Stanley’s power works mainly to downgrade Blanche, his violent and aggressive nature also disempowers Stella. She is abused during poker night, a moment of masculine bonding. Following the poker night she is made powerful when she retreats to Eunice’s Flat. However, she returns to disempowerment when she leaves Eunice’s flat and Stanley ‘bears her into the dark flat’. Stella’s decision to stay with Stanley is not based on choice, but rather on the fact that she must. This enforces the dominant belief that women are unable to support themselves, emotionally and financially.

It was not just her self that put her in the lime light of being a victim; it is also her new change of environment and people. Stanley is Stella's husband; he is described to be very masculine and aware of his sexual magnetism. “Strongly, compactly built”. He is mostly at ease with people however, if they lack loyalty and affection to him, he will bully them. Especially women, as he believes them just to be easy conflict. It is seen in scene 3 that Stanley has little respect for women. “I said to hush up!” This is addressed to his wife who is seen emotionless and impassive in this play. As for Blanche how is fussy and at edge, she would be very effected by the crude attitude that Stanley presents and so tries to hysterical take Stella away from her husband. Stanley does not forget of this act of interference and makes him all the more determined to be rid of Stella’s “charity case”. The real reason for Stanley’s bulling is that Blanche immediately received all Stella’s attention. “How about my supper huh? I’m not going to no Galatorires’ for supper” This made Stella dominant in power over Stanley and Blanche, something Stanley was not used to. “I put you a cold plate on ice”.

Stanley is a character in this play, whose perspective is clearly reality based. Since Blanche’s outlook on life is fantasy based, there is a lot of hostility between the two characters. Stanley is the one that always exposes the lies that Blanche is always hiding behind. He is constantly trying to get her to accept his perspective. When she finally begins to understand him, it’s too late. With such a huge change, she loses her mental state. Her personal beliefs get interchanged between fantasy and reality, to such an extent, that it seems as if she no longer realizes what is true or what is malign.

treats his wife is also an inconspicuous way of saying that’s how his father would treat not only

Stella, too, is a major character who lives in a world of hopes and fantasies. Stella’s tears over her sister as Blanche was taken away at the end of play reveals that Stella’s fantasies have been crushed by Stanley’s brutality. Stella calls her sister, “Blanche! Blanche! Blanche!”(142) , as if she does not want to let go of her sister. In spite of the fact that Stanley tried to justify and to relief her, Stella knows that something acquitted and abandoned had banished. She knows that her happy and humble world and her sister’s hopes had gone. Through her fantasy world, she thinks she could keep her sister for ever, but fantasy does not always work and makes life appear as it should be rather than what reality is. Also, Blanche imagines the doctor as a gentleman who is going to rescue her from a life that she imagines it as a life that does not want to accept her. Blanche finishes the play by saying, “Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers” (142). Blanche’s irony is demonstrated for two reasons. First of all, the doctor is not a gentleman; he came to take her to a mental health care. Second of all, strangers are not kind to her; they are kind only for trade of sex. Instead, they feel sympathy for her for creating a world where she is the victim. Blanche never perceives stranger’s kindness as something that people take advantage of. Instead, she thinks that Stanley is the one who does not treat her well, although he wanted

Stanley’s actions are intense and mostly uncalled for, Stanley is heavily motivated by the past and

A very apparent character trait of Stanley is his love for his wife, Stella. In scene two, Stella and Stanley notice all the very nice things that Blanche has in her trunk. For Blanche being a poor girl, Stanley knows that she shouldn't have so many nice things. Stanley expresses his concern to Stella as he says, "It looks like you have been swindled, baby...". This shows that Stanley only wants for Stella what she deserves, and if Blanche is not sharing what money is also Stella's, then it upsets him.

Although Stanley does many rude and harsh things to Blanche that make her self esteem and sense of self worth lessen, Stella brings a lot of her problems onto herself because of how difficult she is as a person. That complicates things for herself. Blanche’s hostility only enrages Stanley more and more as the play progresses which sets up many

Williams really portrays Stanley as a very animalistic yet strong headed character, even though him and his wife Stella are living in a lower class community Stanley still works hard to support his family. Williams really illustrates how men acted during those times through his characterization of Stanley. Stanley loved Stella and took care of her, but there were many times that he became abusive and brutal. The times when he would get very violent with her, would lead to her leaving for a few hours, but he was manipulative and call and scream for her to come back. Stella realized there was no other option than to go back to him, because he did take care of her and he did love her. This whole theme throughout the novel depicts how women were

However, without Stella’s ability to be the pacifier and balancer between the two, Williams wouldn’t of won the Pulitzer Prize. Stanley’s static character, alpha dog, controlling, mature mannerisms, is evident in the film. He maneuvers around with his tight wife beaters, straight up posture, shoulders bowed out, imposing attitude, seemingly looking for an argument. In the drama, there was this feel that he is more of a laid back, two faced, want to be “party dude”, part-time loving husband, and chases his problems away with alcohol. When Blanche refuses a shot from Stanley he replied, “Some people rarely touch it, but it touches them often.” (Williams 1.56). Stanley’s inability to control his alcohol consumption, causes him to bring out his other side. Stella throughout the whole story similar to Stanley has issues with self-identification, they both want to be portray that they are something they are not. In the movie we see Blanche dress in diamonds and pearls, give off this persona that she’s royal over others, and that the world owes her something because she comes from wealth, through visual aid. In the film adaptation and drama, Stanley has his insecurities and suspensions of Blanche, however in the drama he goes on a rampage through her belongings with Stella present, “[he hurls the furs on the daybed open. Then he jerks open small drawer in the trunk and pulls up a fist-full of

From the begin of the play, Stanley is extremely suspicious of Blanche and says, "Look at these feathers and furs she comes here to straighten herself in." Stanley and Blanche are really different characters as Stanley is from a Polish average workers foundation where 'what you see is the thing that you get' while Blanche is extremely "ladylike" and innocent. Stanley sees directly through her illusions, flirtations and deception. In spite of Blanche putting on the mask of innocence and purity, she is truly an extortion who can not face the light in fear that she will be uncovered for the individual she truly is. At the point when Blanche is all alone we find an awesome arrangement about her identity when we can see that Blanche constantly lies about her drinking keeping in mind the end goal to depict herself as a genuine 'woman'. At the point when no one is watching, Blanche expends a sensible measure of liquor and additionally getting a charge out of a shot with Stella. Stella then offers Blanche another shot and she denies this truism, "No, one's my limit." Later, when Stanley offers Blanche some alcohol she claims that she "rarely touches it", totally lying again all for the sake of misdirection which to her equivalents individual security. Therefore, we can verify that what Blanche resemble when all alone is in direct absolute opposite to the picture she might want to represent of

Blanche is a south aristocratic woman, she is a good example of noble, romantic and imaginary southerner. Her beauty and polite behavior, in Stanley’s eyes, is artificial and ridiculous. Stanley, of humble birth, who is a representative of rising north industrial civilization, is much more realistic and materialistic. But he is considered as a “cave man” by Blanche. Thus it can be seen that their values of south and north badly incompatible with each other. Just like the slavery plantation economy is replaced by the industrial production, Blanche becomes the one Stanley wants to bully and out down. The serious conflict of values from south and north is the main reason to their

Stanley is shown as the reality of the modern society in that time, where Blanche believes that she is still young and beautiful, and that all men adore her. Approaching the end of the play, in scene 10, the idea of Blanche’s fantasy is very clearly shown to the audience “[She is now placing the rhinestone tiara on her head before the mirror of the dressing table and murmuring excitedly as if to a group of spectral admirers]”. The word choice of ‘murmuring’ shows to the audience that she doesn’t know exactly what she is saying or thinking giving the effect that she is insane, not just messing around. This leads to further conflict in this scene as Stanley walks in and begins to pick apart Blanche’s lies and stories she has told him about the millionaire. After Stanley has done with eating away at Blanche’s tales, he proceeds to rape her. The stage direction “[…as he waits between BLANCHE and the outer door. The barley audible ‘blue piano’ begins to drum louder. The sounds of it turns into the roar of an approaching locomotive.]”. This quote shows the increase of power that Stanley has over Blanche. The blue piano symbolises Blanche and her fantasy world, but as the locomotive approaches it overcomes the sound of the blue piano. The locomotive shows the real, cruel world Stanley lives

The physical and mental torture meted out to Stanley leaves an indelible scar in his mind and gives birth to his great fear against all forces that coalesce to form a collective force (they) which is immensely powerful and at the same time devastating. This paranoia is dormant till the time Stanley is in a comfortable, secure place and surrounded by familiar, innocuous people like Pete, Meg and Lulu. But the arrival of the mysterious Goldberg and McCann, in the boarding house galvanizes the terror and panic in the subconscious mind and intensifies it to the extent, that Stanley vents out his frustration by madly beating the toy drum which he gets as a birthday present (though he denies it is his birthday) from Meg. The savagery of Stanley’s reaction on receiving the toy drum is also effected by Stanley’s despair at being treated like a child by Meg. A toy drum is usually gifted to a child. Meg gifts Stanley a toy drum as he is a musician and also because she feels the child in Stanley will like the gift. But what she fails to understand is that by being a mother-surrogate to Stanley, she has made Stanley dependent on her to an extent that is disliked by Stanley himself. Stanley’s disgust for the mother-er Meg and his attempt to free himself from her (abject’s) clutches is thus reflected in his uncontrolled and wild beating of the drum, gifted by