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    Both Arthur Miller’s All My Sons and Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar named Desire exhibit numerous indirect social purposes that can relate to the societal issues today. Miller is able to inform the audience about the classic corruption of the American Dream as well as his idea of social accountability in a similar approach to how Williams discusses the issues of mental health and spousal violence. Each are able to achieve their indirect social purposes to educate the audience about these problems

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    In the Veil, Marjane experiences her largest character change yet, when she breaks up with her boyfriend Markus. Marjane and Markus split, because Marjane caught Markus cheating on her with another woman. This breakup led her to become not trusting of anyone around her and made her depressed. The distrust led her to believe that all of her friends wouldn’t help her anymore and to think that everyone was out to get her. Examples of this are seen when Marjane leaves the place she is staying and when

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    A Streetcar Named Desire’s plot thickens throughout scenes three, four, and five. The third act begins with Stanley hosting a poker night in his very own tiny kitchen. All men were married except one. Stella had arranged an evening out with Blanche to let the gentlemen have their own space. When the two women returned in the late, dark hours of the night, the taking and dealing of poker was still going on. Blanche quickly found herself making conversation with Mitch, the unmarried man. The two were

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    The evidence of masculinity in scene three is shown through dialogue, stage direction and description of the surroundings. The introduction to the dramatic purpose of the poker party demonstrates Stanley's domination over his friends through the way in which he makes all the decisions about the game. He also shows domination over his wife by hitting her during an argument. <br> <br>Scene three opens with a description of surroundings during a poker night. The description of the poker night immediately

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    In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson have many similarities and many differences. Both women are unhappy with their lives, both are greedy, but both women live very different lives. Both Myrtle and Daisy are unhappy with their lives and try to escape from them. Daisy Buchanan and Myrtle Wilson are also very greedy people in similar, but also in different ways. These women do whatever they want at the risk of their own lives as well as other people’s lives.

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    southern belle, Blanche DuBois who is exposed to the cruel reality that exists in New Orleans. Blanche, the deceptive picture of purity, is giving an unexpected visit to her sister, Stella, and brother in law, Stanley, who immediately demonstrate some doubts about her staying with them. Throughout the tragic story, Tennessee Williams develops Blanche as having a mental illness, escalated by the loss of family and her home and Stanley’s cruel treatment. Through Blanche DuBois’ prosperous background

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    alcoholic; his mother was ill; and his sister, Rose, suffered from several mental illnesses. This resulted in Williams turning inward and start his writing. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire (Norton, 2012) Williams dramatizes the protagonist Blanche DuBois from Belle Reeve as a tragic figure who is not in touch with reality. In this essay I will show how Williams uses Blanche as a metaphor

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    In ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, the characters of Blanche and Stanley are presented as opposing characters in the book, and hence a lot of conflict and friction occurs between them. The character of Blanche is an older character, from a rather wealthy background and lives in a fantasy world in which she is still young and hasn’t faced the truth. The character of Stanley, however, is a more realistic and primitive character and can be viewed as Blanche’s opposite. Throughout the play, there is a constant

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    Tennessee Williams was an award-winning playwright who wrote many works, including A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. A Streetcar Named Desire is about a displaced southern aristocrat named Blanche DuBois, who seeks refuge in her sister Stella’s New Orleans home to escape her dark past. As the days go by, Blanche comes into conflict with Stella’s husband, a coarse and harsh man named Stanley Kowalski, who she discovers is abusive towards her sister. Blanche and Stanley disapprove

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    A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire introduced an ailing America of certain anxieties; William portrays what World War I did to families, how sex was on American’s mind, and how violent, brutal, and disruptive people were during this time. World War I drastically changed families while the husband went off and fought in war the wives had to do work in some sort to make a living. Husbands felt as if they had been to war they were the one making

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