same confidence as Stanley. Consequently‚ he is bullied by Stanley misses out on potential happiness. While Mitch works in a manly job ‘on the precision bench in the spare parts department. At the plant Stanley travels for’(Sc. 3‚ P. 35) and plays poker with ‘the boys’‚ he has a sensitive‚ respectful side as he apprehensively asks Blanche ‘Can- I- uh- kiss you- good night’(Sc. 6‚ P. 68). Because of this sensitivity‚ the more powerful Stanley is able to manipulate Mitch so Stanley can feel superior
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extent‚ I partially sympathies with Blanche DuBois. This disintegrated character goes through many painful experiences‚ some being the suicide of her young husband Alan Grey‚ her loneliness throughout the play‚ and when her only family member betrays her for desire. On the other hand‚ Blanche loses my sympathy at some events due to the numerous lies she has told throughout the play to many of the characters and the failed attempts of trying to break up Stanley and Stella. It could be argued that
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Williams’ characterization of Blanche as a character of many layers and different emotions is particularly evident in this scene as he presents her in different lights through different mediums. In this scene‚ Blanche is presented as afraid. This effect is achieved through Blanche’s actions‚ which are revealed to us by stage directions. “She looks fearfully after him” this explicitly unveils to the audience Blanche’s reaction to Mitch’s arrival as well as his attitude. The adverb “fearfully” adequately
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English 12H Blanche DuBois When the play begins‚ Blanche is a fallen woman in society’s eyes. Her family fortune and estate are gone she lost her young husband to suicide years earlier‚ and she is a social outcast due to her sexual behavior. She also has a bad drinking problem‚ which she doesn’t hide very well. Behind her facade of being high class‚ Blanche is an insecure individual who has been disowned by society. She is an aging Southern belle who lives in a state of panic about her fading
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Tennessee Williams did a fine job of centering his play bill A Streetcar Named Desire‚ on the protagonist‚ Blanche DuBois. With that stated‚ and to answer the loaded question of who portrayed the most intriguing character from scenes 1-3‚ most assuredly‚ Blanche DuBois would have to be the only logical choice. Her introduction to the story sets the persona of her character. Through the vivid details of her wardrobe‚ in contrast to the setting of the story line and the over-dramatic‚ self-righteous
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audience into whether she is to be sympathized or not. At the beginning of the play‚ the author Tennessee Williams shows us the arrogant and demanding side of Blanche‚ provoking the audience to dislike her‚ but as the play goes on‚ Williams gradually reveals more about Blanche’s troublesome past‚ making the audience sympathize her more. Blanche arrives at the Kowalski household— Elysian Fields‚ dressed fancily. “She is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice‚ necklace and ear-rings of
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Compare Blanche and Amanda In today’s socioeconomic world‚ there is no room for slacking off or failure. People are seen as individuals who earn their social status and there is much pressure to succeed. In the plays‚ “The Glass Menagerie” and “A Streetcar Named Desire” both written by Tennessee Williams‚ there are two main characters who are not capable of living in the present and have a difficult time facing reality. Amanda Wingfield‚ the mother from “The Glass Menagerie” and Blanche Dubois
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Matron in the final scene‚ a sorrowful conclusion to the previously doomed fate of Blanche DuBois. Imagine living a lie‚ an illusion; afraid of coming out of the dark past and into the warm‚ bright light of present reality and the not-so-distant luminous future. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams‚ the eccentric protagonist Blanche manages to do just that. The play begins in New Orleans‚ where Blanche DuBois‚ a schoolteacher from Laurel‚ Mississippi‚ arrives at the apartment of
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84). The character of Blanche Dubois embodies the 1940s distressed female as she struggles with her environment. She is battling guilt‚ loneliness and financial insecurity when she arrives in Elysian Fields. Critics and audiences alike have mixed reactions to Blanche and her role as the tragic protagonist. In “The Space of Madness and Desire” Anne Fleche suggests Blanche is mad from the outset of the play. Others such as Leonard Berkman in “The Tragic Downfall of Blanche Dubois” argue that she
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Blanche‚ Stella’s older sister‚ until recently a high school English teacher in Laurel‚ Mississippi. She arrives in New Orleans a loquacious‚ witty‚ arrogant‚ fragile‚ and ultimately crumbling figure. Blanche once was married to and passionately in love with a tortured young man. He killed himself after she discovered his homosexuality‚ and she has suffered from guilt and regret ever since. Blanche watched parents and relatives‚ all the old guard‚ die off‚ and then had to endure foreclosure on the
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