Blanche DuBois

today. There was a number of women that died or went insane because of the standards that they had to meet in order to be considered good women. In this research paper I will talk about the experience of the narrator of The Yellow Wallpaper and Blanche DuBois from the story A Streetcar Named Desire. It will be shown within these pages how the moral and societal standards for women were far different than they were for men, and how the standards changed over the years. Furthermore it will be shown how

9. Topic: Character Motivations- Blanche I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby soxers and drug-store Romeos with reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe! (62). Blanche was an English teacher in the town of Laurel and is motivated by the books she read from the authors she briefly mentions. Her knowledge and experience of reading inspired her to write, act, and live her life in fantasies and illusions; hence, it is what led her to believe

arguing sprouted from both sides evenly, no matter who started the conversation. The younger servants didn’t really say much, and when they brought up their sweet dreams or darkest nightmares, Blanche didn’t hesitate to share her happily ending dream. “Well I had a lovely dream last night!” Proclaimed Blanche, a young girl from Sonny’s side of the kingdom. “There were princesses, a ball, and a midnight kiss from Prince Charming!” “My dream was indescribable,” Jasper muttered. “S-spiders, my worst

suffered from an economic crisis. Furthermore, the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” is about Blanche DuBois, a former schoolteacher, leaves Mississippi in order to live with her sister Stella and her sister’s blue collar husband in New Orleans since she lost her ancestral home, Belle Reve. As she arrives to her sister’s apartment several events occur that expresses Blanche as lustful woman. In addition, Blanche tries so hard to convince Stella that she is living in a blue collar lifestyle;

Blanche portrays herself as a refined and sophisticated woman, but when you get further into the story you realize that she’s neither of those things. Blanche pretends to be innocent and good while she has a very arresting past. Implying unhappy sexual relationships, alcohol abuse, and death, which she wants to hide from others. Blanche likes to seek approval from everyone she meets because it makes her feel wanted and loved. But, she feels complete loneliness even when she’s surrounded by others

Jay Gatsby, the mysterious millionaire from The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Blanche DuBois, the heroine in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, seem to represent two different kinds of protagonists. While they both deal in illusions, Gatsby and Blanche are significantly different people, and their illusions stem from different motives. Gatsby creates illusions that present an idealized personal lifestyle, hiding the impracticality of his dreams. He already has wealth, enough

Introductory Wall Text   The Album of La Revue Blanche, a collection of prints commissioned by the late 19th century Parisian anarchist journal La Revue Blanche, provides not only an insight into popular fin-de-siècle French print culture, but also a beautiful case-study in the techniques developed by leading artists in the realm of fine art lithography. As a graphic art that makes use of the immiscibility of grease and water, this planographic printing process provides a wide array of stylistic

“A Streetcar Named Desire” is a playwright about a woman named Blanche DuBois who goes and visits her sister Stella and her sister’s husband Stanley. She tells them she is just there on vacation, but in reality has lost the family mansion, her job, and a place in the town she lived in. Ms. DuBois lost her job and was kicked out of her town due to the fact that she was caught sleeping with a seventeen-year-old that she was teaching. She lies to her sister and convinces her that she is just visiting

Brontë presents Blanche Ingram as discriminative towards class, this is portrayed through the use of a metaphor. Blanche describes governesses as a “whole tribe”, who “are a nuisance”. Firstly, the use of a metaphor to compare governesses to a “tribe” could connote how some governesses may have rebelled against their masters, most likely for a higher salary. However, this use of “tribe” creates a negative effect on governesses, presenting them as ill-mannered, due to the rowdiness of tribes

1.1 Protagonist Blanche DuBois is the younger sister of Stella Kowalski. She comes to visit Stella and her husband, Stanley at their small home in New Orleans. Blanche is described as a Southern Belle that presents a tragic flaw stemmed from her lack of self- esteem. There are many words that can be used to describe Blanche; however her most dominant traits are unstable, flirtatious, and deceitful. Blanche has a devastating and scarring past in which her tragic flaw originates from. The