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Clash between Blanche and Stanley A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is a powerful and thoughtful drama. It was shown for the first time in 1947 in New Orleans. It is focuses on the transition between the old traditions of the American South and the newly industrialised South. It also chronicles the defeat of an aristocratic southern belle by a new working class society. Until the 1940s, the American South had been an agricultural economy which allowed for a distinct white upper class

Blanche de la Force, a very fearful and hesitant nun in revolting France, is one of the main characters in Gertrud Von Le Fort’s The Song at the Scaffold. Another main character is Sister Marie, the most noble and faithful sister of the Carmelite Convent in Compeigne. Sister Marie despises Blanche’s fearful nature because it does not allow the convent to consecrate to martyrdom, and offers advice to the prioress to reject her to the convent. Mother Teresa, the prioress of the convent wanted to

The character of Blanche Dubois in the play A Streetcar Named Desire is depicted as a victim of her traditional southern upbringing, she struggles to find her place in society where the values of a Southern Belle are no longer relevant nor exist. Blanche Dubois is portrayed as the weaker sex, who is then over powered by Stanley Kowalski, her sister’s working class husband. Blanche Dubois shows a great psychological instability when she is unable to live up to the expectations of a classic and proper

A Night at Nuit Blanche On Saturday October 4th Nuit Blanche Toronto’s annual celebration of art, drew crowds of spectators to the streets of downtown to experience the awaited installations. Many pieces referenced strong messages on topics ranging from cultural differences, environmental concerns, and social issues. The night was divided into four main zones: Before Day Break, The Night Circus, The Possibility of Everything, and Performance Anxiety, each zone was located in a region of downtown

In A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Blanche Dubois’ destruction and eccentric behavior can be justified through a psychoanalytic lens, arguing that her unhealthy interactions with others and her eventual departure from reality can be attributed to societal factors that affects her upbringing and molds her personality. Psychoanalytically, it is her lack of self-realization as well as failure to balance her psyche to achieve her desires that causes mental chaos. Altogether, Blanche’s

In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois desires to be viewed as a pure and innocent girl despite her sex and scandal filled past. In Scene 5, Blanche attempts to explain the way someone needs to look if they want to come off as innocent and appealing: “When people are soft---soft people have got to shimmer and glow---they’ve got to put on soft colors, the colors of butterfly wings, and put a---paper lantern over the light. . . . It isn’t enough to be soft. You’ve got to be

This man physically and emotionally abuses people. From the beginning, he treats Blanche, his sister-in-law, as the enemy. Stanley, appears to be a lover one minute and a scoundrel the next. Stanley is a man that likes control. He works while his wife stays home and cooks. He has poker parties at his house and barks orders at his wife. When he has his parties, he does not consider anyone else feelings. When Blanche and Stella tried to listen to music on the radio, he demanded they turn it off, when

and Stella, a couple living in Elysian Fields that are visited by Blanche, Stella’s sister. Blanche is a surprise guest, that is helpless and seeks help from her sister because she has no other options. The introduction of her character creates a great deal of tension and some disruption. Despite Blanche’s seemingly helpless and gently character, she has a great deal of power which is expressed throughout the play. When Blanche is first introduced, she is shown as very judgemental about Stella’s

the ways things were realistically happening. Blanche seemed to be in the center of all of these trying situations. This led some to sympathize for her, while others left her with none. Williams’ original intent was for Blanche to be the most sympathized character of the play. Because she was by herself to deal with many problems, Blanche may have seemed self centered and ignorant to an outside eye, but in actuality Williams succeeded in making Blanche the most sympathized character of the play.

There are streetcars available in the film. The cinematic beginning has Blanche asking for directions to an unfamiliar environment of the massive crowds and busy traffic. Contrary to theatre, where it could not display streetcar quantitatively or qualitatively, Blanche only discusses it. Obviously, what one has the freedom to do in cinema that theatres cannot is change locations. There are bowling alleys and train stations in the film. What I appreciated about these changes were the scopes of what