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How To Restore Honour In A Streetcar Named Desire

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People struggle to restore honour and certainty in themselves when they defame their character by doing questionable acts and ruining their good reputation. When this occurs, some individuals try to restore their honour by avoiding and lying about their past in order to ensure that their reputation will be restored and that they will have a new and better future. In Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois leaves Laurel because of her infamous reputation amongst the people there and moves in with her sister and brother-in-law who reside in Elysian Fields in order to start a new life. Initially, when people cover up their past with lies to restore the honour they have lost, individuals can temporarily repair their broken
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