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A Streetcar Named Desire
Comparison Essay # 17667
A Streetcar Named Desire
Compares characters of Stella & Blanche DuBois. Discusses illusions, desires, sexuality and relationships.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages) |
1 source |
1988
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"The purpose of this research is to compare and contrast the characters of Stella and Blanche DuBois in Tennessee Williams? A Streetcar Named Desire.Tennessee Williams? A Streetcar Named Desire, set in the Elysian Fields district of New Orleans, opens to the sound of a tinny piano playing Negro blues tunes, music that according to the author ?expresses the spirit of the life that goes on here" (p. 13). This spirit is one of desire, suppressed passions, and illusions played off against a sordid reality. These themes are embodied in the characters of Stella Kowalski and Blanche DuBois, who are sisters. Stella is a gentle young woman from a background obviously quite different from that of her husband,
Stanley, whose first act in the play is to throw his wife a (...)"
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