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    2016. Many works of literature contain a character who intentionally deceives others. The character’s dishonesty may be intended to help or to hurt. Such a character, for example, may choose to mislead others for personal safety, to spare someone’s feelings, or to carry out a crime. Choose a novel or play in which a character deceives others. Then, in a well-written essay, analyze the motives for that character’s deception and discuss how the deception contributes to the meaning of the work

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    obstacle she must face. In Tennessee Williams’ play, A Streetcar Named Desire, he discussed how an individual’s desire for self-preservation creates bias when she is to respond to competing demands as it is necessary for her to go on with her catastrophic life, no matter what demands she is faced with. -------------------------------- Tennessee Williams uses symbols, colours, and character foil to foreshadow what little choice his tragic character Stella has if her life is to on. The text creator reveals

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    “What you are talking about is brutal desire – just – Desire! – the name of that rattle-trap streetcar that bangs through the Quarter, up one old narrow street and down another…” (Williams 80). Within this quotation from Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, a streetcar is not what is being referred to literally. Instead, the quote signifies the adulterous search for sexual “desires” and the inevitable social deconstruction of the focal character, Blanche. The play takes place in New

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    Though Tennessee Williams uses his play, A Streetcar Named Desire, to open the eyes of the reader to the working-class lifestyle, his characters all struggle to see and accept the actuality of actions in the play. Desire, the reality for many characters, drives their agendas, but this theme does not encapsulate the entirety of the novels purpose. Williams uses his play to depict human negligence when faced with reality. Stella neglects to confront the violent underlying problems in her seemingly

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    Gilman starts the story by introducing the two main characters of the story John and the narrator. John is a physician and the narrator is housewife and a mom. The narrator is mentally unstable because of postpartum depression. She respects her husband but questions. John forces her to visit the doctor, who

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    A Streetcar Named Desire Essay The play A Streetcar Named Desire, was remade into a movie that was filmed in New Orleans. The film takes place in the 1950s with Blanche who moves in with her sister, Stella, and her brother in law, Stanley. The movie is about Blanche’s experience and eventually demise all in New Orleans. Blanche was a school teacher in Mississippi, but when she got fired for having intimate relationships with underaged boys, she moved in with her sister. Her sister, Stella is married

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    about loneliness, irritation, and hopelessness. One of his more famous works, A Streetcar Named Desire, is no exception; it uses many aspects of conflict involving multiple themes, including death and desire, a motif that constantly haunts one of the four major characters in the play: Blanche Dubois. This theme is developed through the repeated conflicts set in her past life and current life. The other three major characters are Blanche’s sister, Stella Kowalski; her brother-in-law, Stanley Kowalski;

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    A tragic protagonist is a character in literary work that faces internal and external conflicts which eventually lead to their downfall. A tragic protagonist from A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is Blanche. She struggles with multiple internal and external problems that lead to her falling apart. Blanche struggles with deception, lying, living in a fantasy, denial, guilt, promiscuity, and drinking. Outside of her reach she struggles with ex husband’s death and betrayal, and Stanley

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    A Streetcar Named Desire is a classic tragedy written by Tennessee Williams, which earned him the Pulitzer Prize as well as many other awards. This brilliant play explores many important themes and issues. The main recurring theme Williams explores to the readers is the conflict between fantasy and reality, honesty and lies. However, sexuality, violence, and social differences also shape the action of the plot, in which they contribute to the effect of the characters of the play. The three main characters

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    Josh Bleil Dr. Bowers English 21011 7 May 2018 Steroids in Baseball In A Streetcar Named Desire there is a character named Blanche who has lost her family fortune and estate, and her husband has committed suicide. Blanche decides to move into the Kowalski home with her sister and brother-in-law. Blanche is a very insecure women who pretends to be someone she is not around her sister. This is how a lot of professional baseball players act when they are using steroids. They do not want people to find

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