Blanche Burns: Whose To Die?

Also, they challenged it under Section 7 under The Charter of Rights and Freedoms. Which states the rights for life, liberty and personal security. The Crown argued that it wasn’t trafficking a narcotic substance and that it was actually manslaughter. Since, the appellant negligently gave the victim the narcotics, which ultimately killed her.

She tries to hold on to him but is unable to keep him attracted. Blanche is lost, confused, conflicted, lashing out in sexual ways, and living in her out own fantasies. She has no concern for anyone’s well being, including her own. Thus, this is her utter most harmful demise. She has no realistic outlook for the future.

Blanche’s guilt, the principal force driving her downfall, stems from her involvement in the circumstances surrounding her husband Allan’s suicide. After finding her husband with

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The audience always had the feeling that Blanche was a little nuts, but we see her condition worsening as the play goes on. During the final scene we see Blanche go with a doctor and nurse to, presumably, a mental hospitable. Eunice

Blanche's panorama towards gay people had interchanged with her beliefs and this lead to her biased opinion towards her husband. Most likely, things were probably said that weren't meant to be hurtful, but her husband still committed suicide. This misunderstanding of her own feelings as well as her husbands’ potentially lead to a guilt savaged life for Blanche.

due to her past blanche’s actions are unusual and to many they are considered inappropriate. Blanche lives through some very dark and intense incidents before the play takes place, she witnesses the death of her entire family, she loses her family home, and to add to the misery she believes she is the reason her husband killed himself. In an act to move on she retreats into illusion acting as if these incidents never happened. Blanche decides to lie to everyone, from her sister to the man she potentially wanted to marry, she does not give them the truth. She wants to marry mitch but does not tell him about her past, mitch had all right to know, yet she led him on, actions like these in an environment of connection is inappropriate beyond a doubt. Because of her lies and illusions Blanche ends up losing everything, she loses her only chance at a future with Mitch and her freedom when she is sent to the mental institution. Blanches motivation by the past caused her life around her dissolve.

After being stripped of her life-affirming and life-sustaining illusions, Blanche cannot do anything but stare ”blankly and silently into the face of her executioner and sees in his visage the immanent prospect of her own destruction.” (Crandell)

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The fear of death is arguably the most unwarranted of all fears. Most individuals can find a way to temporarily put death to the side or behind them, however in the long run, death is inescapable. Time is what makes death indestructible because in reality time only moves in one direction. Some may say that it only moves forward, but there is only one reason for which time comes to a stop and that is death. In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire (1947), Blanche DuBois’ sexual desire produces the idea that desire results in death.

In A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, madness plays a large role in the main character of Blanche. However, William allows Blanche’s character to fall into the stereotypical role of the insane character. Where as madness is highly feminized in a character such as Blanche who is personified as being a delusional alcoholic; male characters are given positive ad artistic qualities such as Darl Bundren from As I Lay Dying by, William Faulkner. There is an inequality of the sexes that arises in relations to madness in literature.

Her prim and proper ways were no match for the tactics of the brazen Stanley Kowalski. Stanley, had no formal education to speak of and was utterly sophomoric in his attempts at sophisticated dialog, however he displayed a prodigious ability to apply “street smarts” and common sense within his deductions. These deductions inevitably exposed Blanche’s half-truths and out right delusions. He forced her to acknowledge her troubles, past and present, then in a most heinous act forced himself upon her, driving her to her ultimate breaking point. In the end, Blanche was committed to a mental facility leaving only one resounding moral to the story… Don’t live in

Tennessee Williams’, A Streetcar Named Desire, follows Blanche DuBois as she leaves her life in Laurel, Mississippi to try to create a new start for herself in Elysian Fields, New Orleans. Blanche lives in a world of illusion which contrasts that of her sister Stella and brother-in-law, Stanley. Her reliance on the self-made fantasy, and even delusion, is revealed throughout each scene. Blanche’s illusions are placed into different symbols of A Streetcar Named Desire and when rigorously investigated are proven to showcase the true depth of her insecurities and lies. She is too caught up in maintaining an image of perfection and fragility that the illusions, that she has created in her mind, can be held responsible for each tragic event that

In this play, the central character is Blanche Dubois, a refined, delicate, and sensitive woman. She is cultured and intelligent. Blanche seems to be such a delicate flower, but her past tells a different story that no one is aware of. She loses the family home, Belle Reve, during some financial strain. She arrives to live with her sister, Stella in New Orleans, but she does not give the real reason why she is out of her teaching job back in Mississippi. One curious thing about Blanche is, she tells "what ought to be truth”, but cannot call bring herself to call it lies. Blanche’s sister, Stella, who is married and lives in the French Quarter of New Orleans. Although they had the same upbringing, she has laid aside her cultured upbringing in order to enjoy love with her “common” husband as her sister Blanche likes to call

Feeling dejected, Blanche turns to alcohol to numb the unforgiving feelings of loneliness and despair. She used alcoholism to “...blot out the ugliness of her life” (Marotous). Whiskey seems to be the only thing that is constant in her life and she uses it as a crutch to avoid the circumstances of her reality.