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    II. A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) by Tennessee Williams 1) Origins: a) There are many autobiographical elements in Williams’ play. b) When the play came out, the country had just emerged from the war after struggling through the Great Depression of 1930's, and suddenly the national spotlight concentrated on the lower and middle classes as the true supporters of the heroic American spirit. 2) Title: a) The title of the play is significant as it links both the concrete with the abstract; the streetcar

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    The streetcar Named Desire is a very complex and engaging book with 3 different themes, desire and fate,death and madness. I chose to be Blanche DuBois in scene 8 and scene 10 as it sets the theme,madness.Like the other major themes of the play - desire and fate, and death - madness too was Tennessee ‘Williams’s obsession. His sister Rose’s strange behaviour which had long been a source of anxiety to her parents, later took the form of violent sexual fantasies and accusations against her father.Not

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    Written by John Webster, The Duchess of Malfi is an exquisite play filled with plot-twists, tragic moments, and stupendous actors who have studied under some of the greats. One actress in particular, playing the Duchess of Malfi is Ms. Julie Granata-Hunicutt , studied the works of Ms. Uta Hagen. She successfully demonstrated some of these magnificent techniques in the show tonight; I very much urge others to go and see the well-executed work for themselves. For the purpose of this analysis essay

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    A Streetcar Named Desire In the summer of post World War II in New Orleans, Louisiana lives hard working, hardheaded Stanley and twenty-five year old pregnant, timid Stella Kowalski in a charming two-bedroom apartment on Elysian Fields. Stella’s older sister Blanche Dubois appears in the first scene unexpectedly from Laurel, Mississippi carrying everything she owns. In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, despite Blanche’s desire to start fresh in New Orleans, her snobbish nature, inability

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    shielding of reality. Blanche’s horrid past and spiraling present transform her into a misunderstood, broken character. Blanche DuBois is a schoolteacher in Laurel, Mississippi, but is given a leave of absence due to her nerves. She visits her sister, Stella Kowalski, in New Orleans, Louisiana. When she arrives to New Orleans, she is told to take a streetcar named Desire, transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at Elysian Fields; Elysian Fields is where her sister lives. Blanche

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    as it is, the beauty depicts an appearance resembling a moth. Blanche comes from a background that is aristocratic. Her job, as an English teacher, as well as her home are all lost and in turn, she comes to stay in her sister’s house for a while, Stella, who stays with her husband Stanley, a coarse polish. Her lover passed away and since then she has changed her life completely. Blanche is seen to be a misfit in the

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    political messages, like those of Phillip Sidney. Phillip Sidney’s love sonnets, as evident in sonnet 47 from Astrophil and Stella, symbolize and comment on the balance of power in court politics and the uneasiness of Elizabethan society about the rule of a female. Sonnet 47 illustrates the torment and inner struggle that a man experience when the woman he loves, Stella, does not return his love. This plot of betrayal of love is common in sonnet writing. The speaker is frustrated and contemplates

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    A Streetcar Named Defiance After the social upheaval of the roaring 20s with women and minorities trying to come into their own. By the time the 50s arrived the white male had returned to their seat of power with an iron fist. It was in this setting Tennessee Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire. A dark, seedy, drama that represented the brutal power struggle between men and women within the more impoverished side of American society as well as society’s idea of masculinity and femininity during

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    The damaged character of Blanche Dubois in A Streetcar Named Desire is led to her own psychological death due to her tendencies towards idealism. The streetcar that held the name desire promised a future for Blanche, it held empty promises of fulfillment that caused an immense amount of pain in miss Dubois's life. The car took her away from her own life and brought her to her own psychological graveyard hidden behind the promise of a perfect and respectful future. The first stop of desire was a transfer

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    place. However, with no where else to go, the former aristocrat arrives at the home of Stella and her husband Stanley in downtown New Orleans. Once there, Blanche seeks refuge from reality through the acceptance of men. However, Stanley, sees through Blanche’s compulsive lies and investigates her suspicions past. After being confronted and sexually abused Blache’s increasingly disillusioned mental state compels Stella to put her sister in a mental hospital. Willy Loman, the protagonist of Arthur Miller’s

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