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    There is only one big thing -- desire” (Cather). Desire is something that has driven humans since their existence began. Even the Neolithic man was driven by his desire for food, a mate, or sex. Just like the Neolithic man, humans today have desires for our own basic needs. Tennessee William’s play A Streetcar Named Desire explores the needs and desires of the three main characters, Blanche, Stella, and Stanley and the destruction that, more often than not, comes from desire. Stella Kowalski is a character

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    Blanche, the main character in William’s play "A Streetcar Named Desire" invokes many contrasting emotions. To analyze one’s emotions concerning Blanche is no easy task, to do so effectively one must break the play into different parts and analyze them separately. The problem with Blanche is that she presents a character so mixed up in her own motives and opinions that one never knows if it is really her or an act she’s putting on. The audience will find itself constantly readjusting its position

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    Street car named desire The street car name desire, is a play set in New Orleans after the second world war that is mainly based in a conflict between two strong people with certain different characters and culture who have different points of view about things. The first one is a masculine person with a well constructed body and impolite as well which is visible since the beginning of the play when he heaves the same of meat at Stella and has also a low and weak usage grammar which is noticeable

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    variety of forms, Desire is presented as a destructive force in A Streetcar Named Desire and Disgrace. In A Streetcar Named Desire this destruction takes a variety of forms such as death (shown through Alan 's suicide) and the demise of Blanche’s previously expected reputation as a ‘Southern Belle’. Blanche tries to trade sex for commitment, connection and safety. This is the pattern of her life and one that she fails to see as dysfunctional and destructive. Disgrace also presents desire to be a force

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    insight for the play. There are six characters with established names that live in the building where the story is set. The number six sounds similar to the word sex. And sexual desire plays a major role in everything having to do with the play. Desire was what led Blanche to her demise, “They told me to take a street-car named Desire…” (Williams 2301). Blanch was led to all of them like a moth devoured by fire. Blanche’s sister Stella’s name is Italian for “star” (OED). Stars burn very hot but they ultimately

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    The relationship between gender and power in A Street Car Named Desire In the play A Streetcar Named Desire, author Tennessee Williams creates a strong relationship between gender and power, and asserts that when both are unchecked and combined a force is created which leads people to have no remorse while pursuing their desires. When the four main characters of the play interact we see how this force is detrimental to the weaker characters. Being both immensely masculine and powerful causes Stanley

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    Kowalski and Dubois' Differing Values in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire is a play founded on the premise of conflicting cultures. Blanche and Stanley, the main antagonists of the play, have been brought up to harbour and preserve extremely disparate notions, to such an extent that their incompatibility becomes a recurring theme within the story. Indeed, their differing values and principles becomes the ultimate cause of antagonism, as it is their conflicting

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    chapter 2 "Zion". The plot that is used in this novel is forward and backward plot and Tish as the narrator. The story is told based on Tish point of view. Here is a summary of the novel If Beale Street Could Talk. In this novel told that a black girl named Clementine River but she was known as Tish. She was 19-year-old. She was in love with Alonzo Hunt a black guy and she was pregnant their child. He is a good guy and people called him Fonny.

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    A Street Car Named Desire is a play about Blanche trying to escape her past. Through which she runs into many dilemmas and conflicts. This play uses music. To emphasize and explain Blanche DuBois actions as a character throughout the play. Williams does this with music as the stage directions. Blanche is deeply characterized with this music. In that, she is characterized through the play as first being depressed to being unrealistic to becoming fully insane. This progression of Blanche is emphasized

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    symbolism is embedded in every day literature the symbolism helps convey ideas to the reader. In the book A Street Car Named Desire the most prevalent colors are Blue (Stanley) and White(Blanch), the colors are direct symbolism of the characters traits and personality. Blue is the color that is most often seen with Stanley and can be used to describe him. The color reflects Stanley's state of mind because the color blue means authority and Stanley is very controlling and likes to be in control

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