Stella Vine

Uta hagen was a fabulous stage actress and teacher. Uta was one of the major actresses in America during the 20th century. She was Born June 12,1919 in Gottingen, Germany as Uta Thyra Hagen. Her Family migrated to United States in 1924, when her father found a job opportunity as a professor at cornell University. She played in multiple school and summer productions. As a young child, Uta followed her parents to the theatre, it became obvious that acting was in her blood. In 1937 she graduated from

Throughout the story A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche, a beautiful lost soul, shows the audience a different way of living life. The actions Blanche provides, as well as the things she says gives readers a better understanding on who Blanche really is. The way Tennessee Williams made this character was based on a mixture of both his and Blanche’s past experiences. Due to the death of her last husband, and the loss of her father, Blanche was living a life filled with thoughts of death and paranoia

of changes with who has the power within this scene as Stella gains a little control, yet quickly loses it. Stanley has all of the control within the

character in this play I believe is Blanche, she is a women full of personality and plays a big role in this play. Her life was not going well for her back where she was living, so she thought the best solution was to live with her sister. Her sister Stella has a husband that turns out to dislike Blanche and vice versa. The husband Stanley is the reason Blanche is so uncomfortable living there especially because what he does to her near the end of the play. In the end Blanche is undergoing sum serious

1 TO 2 pages react to either to blanche or stanley() A series of negative events, coupled with an immense feeling of guilty and the loss of affection, can drive anyone insane. In “A street car named desire”, Tennessee Williams displays Blanche DuBois as a very fragile individual. DuBois comes from a very privilege back ground, however loses everything. She does not understand basic human interaction, living out her life in a fantasy. Throughout the play, DuBois is slowly faced with the harshest

Tennessee William’s 1947 play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ has, as its main protagonist, Blanche DuBois; a fading southern belle who moves to New Orleans to live her sister, Stella, and brother-in-law, Stanley, after losing everything. Williams skilfully uses many dramatic techniques, such as characterisation, stage directions and motifs, to highlight the crucial conflict between Stanley and Blanche and emphasise the impact this has on both characters and how this relates to several key thematic issues

The novel A Streetcar Named Desire has many distinct symbols that all come together revolving around the character named Blanche. Blanche tries to cover up her deep dark secrets about why she really left Mississippi. Symbols like bathing, paper lanterns, and alcohol all tie into Blanche masking who she really is and entering her fantasy life. The first symbol in this novel is bathing. Blanche periodically takes baths to “soothe her nerves”. Rather than Blanche being out facing the day; she decides

(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 with her husband of Polish descent, Stanley Kowalski. The polar opposition in the level of education between the delicate Blanche and brutal Stanley erupts into an intense hatred and emotional

audiences often feel conflicted with Blanche’s role, torn between sympathy for her losses and apathy of her strong sexual urges. One may argue that Blanche is the villain of the story, barging into Stella’s and Stanley’s lives and attempting to convince Stella to leave her husband. However, it is Blanche’s perspective whom Williams chooses to tell the story from. We ride along with Blanche as she makes the trip to visit her sister, resists change from the New South, and lets the tension build up around

to deal with her loneliness which leads her to a life of promiscuity and alcoholism; through this she alienates herself. “A Streetcar Named Desire” main characters are Blanche, Stella, Stanley, and Mitch. Blanche is the main character of the play, she is Stella’s older sister, and comes to stay with Stella while Stella is pregnant. Blanche