Blanche DuBois

however, is Blanche DuBois. Blanche looms as the sole character to look past the simplicity of life and long for something beyond her daily mundanity, and all other characters in Streetcar are contrasted against her to help illuminate some quirk of their humanity. In addition to these contrasts, Blanche also provides an interesting character study due to her inability to accept reality and her semi-anachronistic nature. Although Blanche is provided as a contrast for most of the characters

In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” the character of Blanche DuBois is very complex and has many different aspects of it. Blanche DuBois a serious alcoholic has had a very simple life as she has never had to work or have any struggles of life thrown at her till she grows up and loses her family estate and also has her husband kill himself. In the story, she starts off with snarky comments to her sister and her feeling like she is all that. Throughout the story her life turns sideways as she meets

of Blanche Dubois The movie “A Streetcar Named Desire” contains many elements of insanity. The character that displays the most tragic insanity is Blanche Dubois. Blanche is from Laurel, Mississippi were she loses her home Belle Reve, after the death of her relatives. She then travels to her sister’s home where her actions lead her to insanity. She goes to her sister home as a fallen woman of society. She has a difficult time distinguishing between what is real and what is fantasy. Blanche Dubois

can be hectic and can ruin people’s lives. Blanche Dubois has shown two different personalities like, Dubois says she is a very proper woman, but Stanley finds out about her going through Laurel, Blanche lying about a man she is visiting in texas, and how Blanche tries to cover up her drinking problem show how she lives two different lives. Stanley, Blanche’s brother in law, finds out that Blanche was staying in Laurel at a hotel called the Flamingo. Blanche acts like she is a proper woman who would

lower voice to resemble Blanche's, and also moved my arms around to show my character's deep distress. Analysis of Excerpt Blanche explains her difficulties in life through an idea which pairs softness with attractiveness. She portrays herself as a victim of the demands that the weak be attractive. But the truth is that the abuse and complexities of life have forced Blanche to toughen up. Her use of the phrase "turn the trick" is a significant line in the excerpt, being an old idiom implying promiscuous

character, Blanche DuBois. Blanche is both a theatricalizing and self-theatricalizing woman. The second major character is Stanley. Stanley Kowalski is a fascinating character. He's a man of habit and structure, and his desires in life are quite simple. He is the man who likes to lay his cards on the table. He is described as an animalistic being due to his absurd actions later on the play. Although Blanche Dubois is a lost, confused, conflicted, and living in her own fantasies, Blanche is an insecure

protagonist Blanche Dubois, and through multivarious literary elements the theme is illustrated and better comprehended. First and foremost, the literary technique of motif can be used to depict the message of this theme. The concept of light and darkness is brought up continuously throughout the scenes as Blanche Dubois flees from the bright

published in 1947, during post World War Two. During this time the issue of mental health was finally becoming acknowledged by the public and more people were being sent to institutions which knew how to deal with these issues. The play’s protagonist Blanche experiences this period as she was sent to a mental institution at the end of the play due to her tendencies of living a life of delusion to escape her disappointing reality. In 1946 President Truman signed the National Mental Health Act which, for

Death, Desire, and DuBois Set in 1947 in the French Quarter of New Orleans, A Streetcar Named Desire, written by playwright Tennessee Williams, transpires from the motifs of death and desire. The drama follows the disillusioned, tragically flawed life of Blanche DuBois who seeks refuge with her sister Stella and brutish brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski after the loss of her family’s estate. As the play progresses, Williams reveals the many layers of Blanche’s unfortunate past and the interpretation

Blanche Dubois - Former high school English teacher; Running from reality; Lost everything; Moves to New Orleans to live with Stella and Stanley The play begins with Blanche moving to New Orleans, later revealing that she had lost everything to do with her previous life. Blanche´s complexity stems from the difference in the life she leads and the one she wishes to have. She lives a romanticised life in a world Williams dedicated to realism. She does her best to hide her age and insecurities through