Blanche DuBois

named Blanche Dubois. Blanche was a fragile and neurotic woman, desperate for a place to call her own. She had been exiled from her hometown Laurel, Mississippi after seducing a seventeen year old boy. After this incident, she decided to move to New Orleans with her sister Stella. She claimed she had to move, in result of a series of financial calamities which have recently claimed the family plantation, Belle Reve. Her sisters husband, Stanley Kowalski is very suspicious seeing that Blanche seems

Williams’s play, A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois’s personality is built around false pretenses in order to protect herself from facing the reality and the consequences of her actions. However, her downfall is brought about as a result of her inability to cope with reality after the truth about her is revealed, which contributes to the play’s pessimistic take on the worth of dreams, as well as its criticism on the inherent flaws of deception. Blanche, in the climax of the story, lies to her

reality undone; maintaining one’s self belief also requires withstanding the doubts of self. Confusion about our identity and self doubt can arise when those to whom we look to validate our perception of who we are refuse to confirm this perception. Blanche du Bois believes herself

In A Streetcar Named Desire, the audience is confronted with a blend of many unique emotions, perhaps the strongest being sympathy. Blanch Dubois is presented as the sympathetic character in Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire as she battles mental anguish, depression, failure and disaster. During scene one, the audience is introduced to Blanche as Stella's sister, who is going to stay with her for a while. Blanch tries her best to act normal and hide her emotion from her sister, but

Orleans, Louisiana. A Streetcar Named Desire is a tragedy about a Mississippi school teacher, Blanche DuBois, who travels to New Orleans to visit her sister and brother-in-law, Stella and Stanley Kowalski. Throughout this play, Williams displays the destruction of Blanche DuBois’ life by alcoholism, her lust for young boys, and Stanley Kowalski. In this play there are distinct differences between Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski’s lifestyles, backgrounds, and personalities. In A Streetcar Named Desire

“A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams represents a cruel and tragic irony of an aging Southern belle, Blanche Dubois, which fate culminates in total dependence upon men for happiness (Whoever you are—I have always depended on the kindness of strangers). The story unfolds the sordid truth about the English schoolteacher from Mississippi whose pursuit of sexual desires leads to social death and forces her to move to her sister, Stella, that lives in a poor two-bedroom apartment in New Orleans

tend to have and Blanche Dubois significantly portray and represents the theme of sexual intimacy in A Street Car Named Desire as Tennessee Williams uses allegory, allusion, symbolism, and foreshadow in order to demonstrate how do Blanche’s “trip” through several street cars correspond to the theme of sexual intensions. Each of the “street-car” or form of transportation Blanche rode in have a distinguishing name for each which provides a metaphorical ideology for the trains. Blanche riding in the

destructive force by the author Tennessee Williams, which leads to a series of tragic events in the life of Blanche Dubois, the protagonist. She is the character of focus in this play and has an interesting personality as she uses sex as a means to get away from her haunting past and keep her sane in terms of suppressing her guilt about her late husband. In addition to the tragic events that occur in Blanche 's life as a result of her sexual relations, Stanley and Stella Kowalski is a married couple that share

Named Desire is a play about Blanche trying to escape her past. Through which she runs into many dilemmas and conflicts. This play uses music. To emphasize and explain Blanche DuBois actions as a character throughout the play. Williams does this with music as the stage directions. Blanche is deeply characterized with this music. In that, she is characterized through the play as first being depressed to being unrealistic to becoming fully insane. This progression of Blanche is emphasized by music. Williams

really aren’t. For Blanche DuBois in the play A Streetcar Named Desire this isn’t the case. A Streetcar Named Desire is a play that is about how Blanche comes from her home down south to live with her sister Stella and her husband, Stanley. Throughout the whole play, one can see how Blanche can be thought of as a victim. Ways she can be seen as one are bad things happened to her where she lived, she is treated horribly by Stanley, and she is often not believed. One way Blanche can be thought of as