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    Blanche Dubois Monologue

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    Indeed it is. Speaking of which we’re going to need a bit more information on what happened to Blanche to help her. We’d ask her sister, but you seemed quite insistent that your wife need not be a part of this. Can I direct these questions towards you?
That should be fine What was Stella’s personality normally like, before she became like this? Stella

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    Blanche Dubois Symbolism

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    protagonist Blanche Dubois, and through multivarious literary elements the theme is illustrated and better comprehended. First and foremost, the literary technique of motif can be used to depict the message of this theme. The concept of light and darkness is brought up continuously throughout the scenes as Blanche Dubois flees from the bright

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    situations, personalities, and physical appearance. Tennessee Williams intended for Blanche to be the most sympathetic character in “A Streetcar Named Desire” and manages to create compassionate attributes for the spectators to understand her in a realistic manner and relate herself to the

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    Confrontation between Blanche and Stanley in A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire portrays a dog-eat-dog world, in which the winner takes it all: a person not just watches out closely for his/her own interest but also preys on the weak. This portrayal is mostly embodied in the confrontation between Blanche DuBois and Stanley Kowalski, the two major characters in the play. The confrontation partly arises from difference in class, Blanche from high society while

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    Blanche DuBois manipulates lighting and shadows in a room to hide her true identity. She is constantly concealed by shadows, avoiding direct light which may reveal her mysterious secret past that is metaphorically hidden in her face. In the play, Blanche is regularly mentioning light, and the significance of it. Although this is a film with no colour, the use of light is very visually prominent. The use of light appears as a deceiving disguise that Blanche uses to shape her image. She aspires to

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    Street Car Named Desire” Blanche Dubois, the older sister of Stella arrives unexpectedly, carrying everything she ever own. Blanche and Stella was so joyful to reunion with one another, but unfortunately Blanche has some not so great news to reveal to her sister about the family mansion Belle Reve. The mansion has been foreclosed. Blanche was the care provider for their dying family while Stella left to pursue a life for herself, and it’s absolutely evident that Blanche is extremely agitated that

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    Desiree, the main character, Blanche Dubois, is a unique, multifaceted individual. She enters the play having experienced many tragedies in her life, which greatly affect the person she is over the course of the play. After analyzing all the details in the text referring to Blanche Dubois, from dialogue to stage directions, it is evident that she is a fascinating, complex character. During the performance, the audience is constantly learning new information about Blanche from scene to scene, which

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    intense play, A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams, the character of Blanche DuBois is in a constant downward spiral. She is displayed as a sexual symbol with a serious drinking problem. Her attempt to cover these things up with her kind and frail personality does not sit well with some of the characters. Characters such as Stanley Kowalski and Harold (Mitch) Mitchell learn to see right through Blanche. The downfall of her character is the epitome of the symbolization in the play. The

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    Throughout Tennessee William’s play “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Blanche Dubois exemplified several tragic flaws. She suffered from her haunting past; her inability to overcome; her desire to be someone else; and from the cruel, animalistic treatment she received from Stanley. Sadly, her sister Stella also played a role in her downfall. All of these factors ultimately led to Blanche’s tragic breakdown in the end. Blanche could not accept her past and overcome it. She was passionately in love with

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    the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Blanche is defined as a Tragic Hero. When the play begins, Blanche lost her family fortune and her young husband to suicide years earlier. Blanche lives in a state of panic because she believes that she is a fading beauty, therefore, she hides from the light. The Light is a symbol in this play for “Truth”. Blanche avoids the light because she wants to avoid the truth. In the play, Blanche pretends to be a woman who never known indignity. She

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