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    truth is sometimes a very frightening thing. In the stories "A Streetcar Named Desire" and “The Lady with the Dog” both seem to demonstrate dominant men trying to manipulate the women in their lives. However, only one changed his toxic ways. The author demonstrates through symbolism and narrating that. While Stanley from “A Streetcar Named Desire” and Dmitri Gurov from “The Birthmark" are comparable in their blatant disrespect for women, they are distinctive concerning love and willingness to develop

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    Quote Analysis Literary Features “They told me to take a street-car named Desire, and transfer to one called Cemeteries, and ride six blocks and get off at - Elysian Fields!” (Scene 1, Page 6) Sexual desires are a common interest several people tend to have and Blanche Dubois significantly portray and represents the theme of sexual intimacy in A Street Car Named Desire as Tennessee Williams uses allegory, allusion, symbolism, and foreshadow in order to demonstrate how do Blanche’s “trip” through

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    “Insecure man attempt to affirm their manliness physically, often through violence, verbally and symbolically, over women.” This quote represents how violence through different forms can affect women. In literature violence is a recurrent theme that represents social difficulties in the real world. For example in A Streetcar Named Desire Stanley is a violent man who uses his power to abuse his victims like Blanche and Stella. And in The Bluest Eye Cholly can be compared to Stanley as he is also using

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    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 to a car named cemeteries

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    Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire does not employ a variety of dramatic techniques to challenge the audience to explore the idea that the security offered by relationships can decline into a struggle for dominance. Rather, Williams’ uses said techniques to challenge the audience to understand how personal deterioration can lead to the decline in relationships, not through struggles for dominance, but through struggles for the basic conservation of said relationships. This is because the

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    A streetcar named desire is known as a timeless play, due to its highly controversial nature, it has potential to be interpreted in a countless number of ways. A streetcar named desire allows members of its audience to bond with specific characters, due to its extremely relatable characters, depending on what your beliefs are. It was also a highly controversial play as many critics blamed the acting of Marlin Brando, as a cause for people sympmathizing with him. The play explores the two characters

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    wars had shifted the balance of power between men and women. Women were increasingly employed to fill positions which had previously been considered masculine. This was not to last however, and by the fifties men had reassumed their more dominant role in society. People were finding new voices at this time by taking pre-existing forms and pushing the boundaries to re-voice established literary forms. Tennessee Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire around the time this reversal was occurring in American

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    about and how much they relate to their life to the character. For example, the reader can compare A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams and “A New England Nun” by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman to see the difference in comparison of female characters by writers of the opposite sex. The formal writing of males and females contradict each other by way of contrasting views. A Streetcar Named Desire is written by a male by the name of Tennessee Williams. His character Blanche DuBois struggles with

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    homosexuality, leading countless men and women to live closeted lives to avoid persecution and being ostracized. Yet, Tennessee Williams managed to write numerous successful plays that featured either gay characters or undertones. These plays, including his magnum opus A Streetcar Named Desire, remain widely performed and celebrated today. Tennessee Williams’ treatment of the issue of homosexuality and its implications for American society in A Streetcar Named

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    Blanche Dubois Intrigue

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    egotistical and seductive. For example, wearing a white dress in this scene deceives people of being innocent and pure. As Blanche feels she must be devious in order to withstand the challenges in a world that she is "fading now". Women in Blanche's

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