Dear Diary, Today was my first day of going to visit my sister Blanche with my son Armani, as he really wanted to meet his aunt. It was very sad and Armani didn’t really understand why she was in such a place. I tried to explain to him why she is in a mental hospital but he is still too young to understand. I'm feeling very tired and stressful. I didn’t expect that Blanche would act in such a way towards us. At first I though that she would be extremely mad at me because of everything that happened in my apartment with my husband Stanley. I know Stanley can be very rude especially with me nowadays. But it seemed like she was a totally new person, as if she didn’t remember anything about the past. She had a big smile on her face when she …show more content…
I am very in love with Stanley but I’m not sure that he is the right one. It’s not fair for Armani to grow up with divorced parents, but I need to be happy in life. Stanley doesn’t respect me like he should and it affects me. I don’t want my son to see us fighting or to see the bad mannerism of his dad. I feel desperately ill, both mentally and physically. My moods have been so unpredictable over the past days. Sometimes I feel like I don’t want to exist. I feel like this is never going to get better. I have so much in my mind, many things to achieve. My mind feels paralysed due to all the stress. I smile one moment and the next second I cry. I only trust you to explain my issues, as my husband never asks me if im okay. I wish that there was a way for me to describe and express the sadness I feel at this moment. I feel like a little child lost and scared. I struggle to survive the darkness of depression, and although I have suffered depression so many times, at this moment it feels like the first time. I want to run and hide from the shadows within my mind, but there is no escape, nowhere to hide. I cannot describe in words the sadness I feel... words are beyond me. I feel numb, dead, and lifeless. I feel like screaming, but I do not have the energy to express my emotions. I sleep but I am still
The dawn of the twentieth century beheld changes in almost every aspect of the day-to-day lives of women, from the domestic domain to the public. By the midpoint of the twentieth century, women 's activities and concerns had been recognized by the society in previously male-dominating world. The end of the nineteenth century saw tremendous growth in the suffrage movement in England and the United States, with women struggling to attain political equality. However, this was not to last however, and by the fifties men had reassumed their more dominant role in society. Tennessee Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire around the time this reversal was occurring in American society. In this play male dominance is clear. Women are represented as
In Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, main character Blanche Dubois to begin with seems to be a nearly perfect model of a classy woman whose social interaction, life and behavior are based upon her sophistication. The play revolves around her, therefore the main theme of drama concerns her directly. In Blanche is seen the misfortune of a person caught between two worlds-the world of the past and the world of the present-unwilling to let go of the past and unable, because of her character, to come to any sort of terms with the present.
While watching A Streetcar named Desire, the character of Blanche Dubois at first appeared to be a weak self-absorbed southern woman, when really what started coming from her character was a flawed personality. What is not known is whether this is something that runs in the family, or has only shown itself through Blanche. Since this was during a time when mental illness was not yet studied deeply, the way Blanche is treated while succumbing to her illness and how she was sent off to the mental hospital was rather archaic. Blanche is the central character and the movie shows her spiraling down into the abyss of mental illness apparently escalated by the loss of family, her home and the treatment by Stanley.
When discussing the notion that “Love can often lead to the creation of an ‘Outsider’." there are cases in our literary examples that would agree with the statement, and some that would not. Outsiders in Much Ado About Nothing, Pride and Prejudice and A Streetcar Named Desire are created by both love and other themes, whether it be class, power, disinterest or a scandal.
It was August 8th of 2013 when my dad got a call from my Aunt Theresa. She urged him to come over to her house because she had devastating news. The car ride to her house was quiet. The weather was gloomy, the sky was filled with dark cumulus clouds.When we pulled up to my Aunt’s house, the adults were organized into a small circle. My uncles were supporting my grandma, however, I thought nothing of it. My parents had told me to go inside because they had a matter to attend to. I went inside to hang out with my cousins. I saw them a couple days before, but the feeling of happiness never subsides when I see them.
Tennessee Williams wrote about Blanche DuBois: 'She was a demonic character; the The size of her feelings was too great for her to contain without the escape of the madness. Williams uses Blanche DuBois as a vehicle to explore several themes. that interested him, one of these being madness. His own sister, Rose,.
Stella and Blanche are two important female characters in Tennessee Williams' "poetic tragedy," A Streetcar Named Desire. Although they are sisters, their blood relationship suggests other similarities between the two women. They are both part of the final generation of a once aristocratic but now moribund family. Both exhibit a great deal of culture and sensitivity, and as a result, both seem out of place in Elysian Fields. As Miller (45) notes, "Beauty is shipwrecked on the rock of the world's vulgarity."
Scene One of A Streetcar Named Desire What is the dramatic significance of scene one of the play A Streetcar named Desire? Scene 1 of this play has great dramatic significance. In this essay, I will be looking at key points throughout the scene that reveal the key features of the plot, characters, theme and imagery plus how it is used to give the audience a taster for what is to come.
A Streetcar Named Desire is a play of multifaceted themes and diverse characters with the main antagonists of the play, Blanche and Stanley infused by their polarized attitudes towards reality and society ‘structured on the basis of the oppositions past/present and paradise lost/present chaos’(*1). The effect of these conflicting views is the mental deterioration of Blanche’s cerebral health that, it has been said; Stanley an insensitive brute destroyed Blanche with cruel relish and is the architect of her tragic end. However, due to various events in the play this statement is open to question, for instance, the word ‘insensitive’ is debatable, ‘insensitive’ can be defined as not thinking of other people’s feelings but Stanley is aware of what he’s doing understanding the mental impairment he causes Blanche.
Next, Emily lived in great big mansion all alone, except for a maid who she barely saw. No one besides those two entered the house and it soon became a mystery. One a the foreman of a construction company caught her eye. Emily and Homer soon fell in love, but they both had different ideas for the future. One day Homer entered the house and never made it back out. Emily wanted to hold onto Homer’s young soul forever, to never age and cherish the love they had. When Emily died Homer was found, ”The body had apparently once lain in the attitude of an embrace, but now the long sleep that outlasts love, that conquers even the grimace of love, had cuckolded him.” Their love was finally over, but when had it really ended? Hiding from the past, Blanche
The arts stir emotion in audiences. Whether it is hate or humor, compassion or confusion, passion or pity, an artist's goal is to construct a particular feeling in an individual. Tennessee Williams is no different. In A Streetcar Named Desire, the audience is confronted with a blend of many unique emotions, perhaps the strongest being sympathy. Blanch Dubois is presented as the sympathetic character in Tennessee William's A Streetcar Named Desire as she battles mental anguish, depression, failure and disaster.
The themes of A streetcar Named Desire are mainly built on conflict, the conflicts between men and women, the conflicts of race, class and attitude to life, and these are especially embodied in Stanley and Blanche. Even in Blanche’s own mind there are conflicts of truth and lies, reality and illusion, and by the end of the play, most of these conflicts have been resolved.
In 'A Streetcar Named Desire' we focus on three main characters. One of these characters is a lady called Blanche. As the play progresses, we gradually get to know more about Blanche and the type of person she really is in contrast to the type of person that she would like everybody else to think she is. Using four main mediums, symbolism and imagery, Blanche's action when by herself, Blanche's past and her dialogue with others such as Mitch, Stanley and the paperboy, we can draw a number of conclusions about Blanche until the end of Scene Five. Using the fore mentioned mediums we can deter that Blanche is deceptive, egotistical and seductive.
In Tennessee Williams play "A Streetcar Named Desire" two of the main characters Stanley and Blanche persistently oppose each other, their differences eventually spiral into Stanley's rape of Stella.
My stomach weakens with a thought that something is wrong, what would be the answer I could have never been ready for. I call my best friend late one night, for some reason she is the only person’s voice I wanted to hear, the only person who I wanted to tell me that everything will be okay. She answer’s the phone and tells me she loves me, as I hear the tears leak through, I ask her what is wrong. The flood gates open with only the horrid words “I can’t do this anymore”. My heart races as I tell her that I am on my way, what I was about to see will never leave my thoughts.