Belle Reve

Belle Reve The two sisters' family's plantation in their hometown Laurel is named Belle Reve. The name again has a French origin and its meaning is "beautiful dream", which once more puts accent on Blanche's tendency to stick to her imaginary life. The name suggests an illusion, which is not quite realistic, because the plantation did actually exist. But on the other hand, the term suggests that something beautiful that used to exist once, now has faded away. Therefore, the term justifies its symbolic

and Blanche grew up on a wealthy plantation, in small town of Belle Reve. Stella wanted to start a new life for herself; while Blanche decided to stay in the small town. In like manner, as a young woman Stella decides to move starting that new life in New Orleans; where in time she meets her now husband, Stanley. Stella had been gone from her hometown for ten long years, without return. Blanche expresses "...the summer you left Belle Rev... the summer dad died and you left us" leaving Blanche the

Tennessee Williams’s play “A Streetcar Named Desire” is based on a journey of the protagonist Blanche, however her sister, Stella Kowalski, takes a major role as well in further conveying the theme of the play, that is of course, complicated and baffling and dramatic based on the very vague presentation of it, there is a turning point at the end of the play where my interpretation of Stella changes as well. Her top priority in the play was to keep everything under control, she had “messed” up a few

residing in it. Even though physically she is present in New Orleans, mentally she is still living in Belle Reve. Belle Reve, which means “beautiful dream” in French, is in fact like a dream to Blanche – a dream that she wants to experience forever. Her letter to Shep Huntleigh reveals the kind of life she desires to live. The letter consists of only lies but it shows that had she still been in Belle Reve she would have been “spending the summer on the wing, making flying visits here and there”. It gives

condemnation of Elysian Fields, in which she says to her sister "what are you doing in a place like this?" and "why didn't you tell me that you had to live in these conditions?" reveals her superior attitude. It is evident that her upbringing in Belle Reve is the culprit for her presumptuous manner. However, Stella's polite civility in the face of her sister's overbearing supremacy shows that the principles of Dubois heritage have not manifested themselves in all its members. She is meek, almost resigned

A Streetcar Named Desire is a play of multifaceted themes and diverse characters with the main antagonists of the play, Blanche and Stanley infused by their polarized attitudes towards reality and society ‘structured on the basis of the oppositions past/present and paradise lost/present chaos’(*1). The effect of these conflicting views is the mental deterioration of Blanche’s cerebral health that, it has been said; Stanley an insensitive brute destroyed Blanche with cruel relish and is the architect

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

Blanche and Stella seemed to have grown up in a small, family-inherited plantation in Mississippi called Belle Reve. All of their family seems to have died and left nothing but the opulent property. For some unknown reason, Stella left to move to Elysian Fields, New Orleans, while Blache continued to live in Belle Reve. One day, Blanche shows up to her sister’s home, explaining that she has lost Belle Reve and eventually finds herself being suspiciously questioned by Stanley. Blanche had all kinds of expensive

In the play A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams portrays a former southern belle’s fight against the change in her surroundings. The protagonist, Blanche DeBois, no longer lives on her family’s plantation, Belle Reve, and moves to her sister’s home in New Orleans French Quarter. Although Blanche loves her sister, she begins to despise and look down on her husband because of his status and actions. When Blanche eventually conveys her thoughts to her sister, she seems to oblivious to her own

so deeply that she has nowhere to find herself again. Her soft-spoken language stands out from her persona as she meets her sister in New Orleans. For example, when Blanche tells her sister,Stella, about the loss of Belle Reve like as,”...I stayed at Belle Reve and tried to hold it together... the loss-the loss…’’ as to incorporate about how she lost