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    Brandon Knickerbocker Ms. Fisher English 4 May 2015 Streetcar, The Musical Upon reaching the aching conclusion of World War II, American society is faced with a stage of urban growth in its culture and racial integration of African Americans. During the late 1940s women stepped down from their jobs that they took on in order to make winning the war possible. In this change of roles the average American woman feels more empowered and entitled having gotten a taste of this sort of independence

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    is married to a man named Stanley with who she shares a sexual relationship. She goes under the full control of her husband rather than going to her sister’s side due to having a child in her womb that belongs to him. This is represented in “A Streetcar Named Desire” where Stella uses a quote” But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark – that sort of make everything else seem – unimportant”. This explains her love for Stanley, which is more like a physical passion, as

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    arguably the most structurally and thematically significant scene of A Streetcar Named Desire, presenting the final confrontation between Blanche and Stanley and concluding with Stanley, in his brutal rape of his wife’s sister, emerging as the undisputed victor. Williams uses language, sound, visual symbolism and violent stage directions in this passage to explore all the play’s key ideas, thus securing it as the dramatic climax of Streetcar. One of the primary concerns dealt with in this scene is that of

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    The play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams examines the theme of both death and desire. Williams presents the only options of life as being one of these two options. Either you choose to figuratively die or you succumb to your desires. You must make to choice and life and battle death and go towards desire. These themes are antitheses of one another and are often times intertwined together. Williams uses the characters actions and thoughts as well as contrasts between them to develop

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    My critical review will be over the 1951 drama film, A Streetcar Named Desire, which is an adaptation of Tennessee Williams’s 1947 play. The original play received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1948. The dramatic film was directed by Elia Kazan. My review will comment on the movie as a whole, as well as touch on the quality of acting element of realism that was utilized. First off, in the movie, Blanche DuBois comes to New Orleans and is shocked by how different everything is from where she is

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    Desire Leads To Despair In Streetcar Named Desire and “The Story Of An Hour” “Marry me Mitch” to “get out before I scream” after mitch denies blanche’s proposal - I guess that is meant by being in love (Williams 25). A Streetcar Named Desire is a story about Blanche Dubois’ desire for love, as a teacher from Laurel Mississippi, that had to deal with a lot of death in her family and being depended on. Blance had a strong desire for love and affection in her life, and takes on the role of a prostitute

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    Blanche Dubois’ final line in A Streetcar Named Desire is the most important part of the play regarding Blanche as it serves as one her final words before solitary confinement in a looney house, and two as a confession of Blanche really is. Her words say it all and are: “I've always depended on the kindness of strangers.” Here, we see her final and only completely words one could take as completely true as, if there is anytime where she speaks the truth it would be when she is extremely fearful,

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    Tennessee Williams’s famous play “A Streetcar Named Desire” centers around a Southern Belle named Blanche Dubois living in an urban home with her younger sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley where she has packed up all of her belongings in one trunk. She is not accustomed to the modern, urban way of life, so she sticks out like a sore thumb, and Stanley gives her a hard time in the process. He is skeptical of her and disrespects her in many ways throughout the play including rummaging through

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    Tennessee Williams's, A Streetcar Named Desire, is a fateful work of literature containing to the theme of fantasy’s inability to overcome reality. One of the main characters, Stella is the ultimate victim of this theme. Stella struggles with her marriage life. Stella’s husband, Stanley is a practical man firmly grounded in the physical world. Stanley does not value the relationship of a wife. He flirts, drinks and smokes with other people besides his wife. Although Stella gets offended by Stanley’s

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    A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams demonstrates the way society diminishes a woman's “powers” in the 1940s and 1950s. Near the end of the play when Blanche is sexually assaulted and taken to the psychiatric ward, it shows how society looks at women of having little power. However, the suppression of women in the 1951 Elia Kazan Film is downgraded from that of the original play. Blanche’s actions at the end of the play demonstrate that women are still belittled by society; however, Stella

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