FALL 2019 3-week term
Posted in A Streetcar Named Desire on Sep 5th, 2019
A Streetcar Named Desire was an interesting read on mental illness and the scary reality and culture our society has of women depending on men. Watching the movie after reading the play was quite shocking, as seeing the actions of Stanley and the steady decline of Blanche’s mind is alarming. Stanley raping Blanche was the […]
Posted in A Streetcar Named Desire on Aug 29th, 2019
In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, the characters Stella Dubois and Stanley Kowalski express the stereotypical gender roles of the period. Stella Dubois is a woman completely dependent on her husband, Stanley Kowalski, who is “the king’ of the household. Stanley believes that he is superior and can get away with whatever […]
Posted in A Streetcar Named Desire on Aug 29th, 2019
The movie we watched today based on the play “A Street Car Named Desire” was different in quite a few ways. The movie chose a different and perhaps a happier ending when the play did not. The play ended with Stella, Blanche’s sister, being held by her husband when she was upset over Blanche leaving for the asylum. […]
Posted in A Streetcar Named Desire on Aug 29th, 2019
Allan Grey is a ghost that haunts the storyline of A Streetcar Named Desire. He is a character with no speaking lines or appearances, yet he is spoken of frequently and is a key player in the decline of Blanche DuBois’ mental state. When Blanche was sixteen, she fell deeply in love with Allan. At […]
Posted in A Streetcar Named Desire on Aug 29th, 2019
From C-SPAN: Author and playwright Tennessee Williams is best known for his plays, The Glass Menagerie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, and A Streetcar Named Desire, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1948. Kenneth Holditch, co-founder of the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival, talked about Williams’ life in New Orleans and the influence it had […]
Posted in A Streetcar Named Desire on Aug 29th, 2019
Blanche’s overly sexual nature most likely came from discovering her first love and husband in bed with another man. Blanche saw his homosexuality as personal rejection and inadequacy and caused her to be licentious as well as obsessed with her age and looks. She tells Mitch,” …I’d failed him in some mysterious way…” as though […]