Stanley Kowalski Essays

and her ruthless husband Stanley after losing the family home. In this essay, I will focus on Stanley Kowalski as Tennessee Williams conveys numerous behaviour traits through him. Williams uses numerous dramas and literary techniques to develop Stanley Kowalski behaviour traits. Stanley is a character who posses an intensely animalistic physical dynamism evident in his love of work, fighting and sex with his main amusements being gambling, bowling, sex and drinking. Stanley is primitive. Our first

the play. Stanley, the man of the house, hates Blanche from the start, and at the end of the play and he rapes Blanche while his wife is having a baby. In a Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley Kowalski

one that stands out quite more than the others is Stanley Kowalski. In the play and film, Stanley Kowalski is the working-class husband of Stella Kowalski (nèe Dubois). Stanley is characterized as hard-working, passionate, and loyal but also short-tempered and brutal. From the beginning, Stanley takes no liking to Stella's sister, Blanche Dubois, and this enmity between the two grows worse and worse over the course of the story. In the end, Stanley, after all his plans against Blanche, gets away with

moves in with her sister Stella and brother-in-law Stanley Kowalski in New Orleans. Upon her arrival, Blanche and her grandiose air offend Stanley. His identity centers around his masculinity, and Blanche and her presence challenge and physically obstruct his identity. As a result, Stanley’s personal insecurity burgeons, but he ultimately reaffirms his masculine identity by raping Blanche. After Blanche engenders his self-awareness and self-doubt, Stanley rapes Blanche as an attestation to himself of

Stella share a lot of similarities. Mitch is incredibly forgiving, despite Blanche betraying him and having affairs. Stanley portrays Stella's stereotypically domineering husband. He intentionally establishes his power throughout the entire play and movie. The short story A Rose For Emily similarly portrays gender roles, with "the men

However, Dubois shoehorns herself into the Kowalski residence and serves no purpose other than to live off her sister under the pretense of temporary support. Her long baths and pretentious display of refined tastes as characterized by her request of “lemon coke with plenty of chipped ice” (Williams 40) and ostentatious clothing are indicative of her attempt at leading a lavish lifestyle as she does so at her own convenience, and with utter disregard for others. It is soon that Blanche realizes that

dependence in men will lead to her downfall. Her fate is in the hands of others, including Stanley Kowalski. Nina Hefner (Ouachita Baptist University) identifies the beginning of the influence Stanley’s masculinity has on the demise of Blanche. “When she calls him a Polack it infuriates Stanley because Blanche suggests that he is less than they are merely because he was not born in America… Finally, comparing Stanley to an animal deprives him not only of his masculinity, but also of his humanity”.3 Stanley’s

is a book from 1947 written by Tennessee Williams. Blanche DuBois is an English teacher from Mississippi who comes to New Orleans to stay with her sister Stella Kowalski. Blanche cannot believe how Stella could be married to Stanley Kowalski who is a Polish, violent and cruel man. She had shown signs of mental instability, but when Stanley reveals information about Blanche’s past to her lover Mitch it all goes downhill for her. Blue Jasmine is a film from 2014 directed by Woody Allen. Jasmine Francis

Brando’s acting in this scene conveys that Stanley is aware that he has a muscular upper body that initially impresses Blanche. He is proud of his physical appearance; even though that is the very thing he ridicules Blanche about on numerous occasions. Additionally, his loyalties to Mitch are shown in the film, instead of just being mentioned which occurs in the play. Kazan makes the decision to show the chaos that erupts at the plant where the two work after Stanley exposes the truth about Blanche’s past

Stanley has a pure dislike for Blanche as he can see right through her ‘high class’ act. Blanche often says rude comments about the young man, in one instance she refers to him as a “polak”. A ‘polak’ is a derogatory word used for Polish people. Stanley doesn't trust Blanche at all, at first he believes she is cheating Stella and himself out of family inheritance. This causing

other, they will do anything within their power to stay with them, even if it means hurting themselves. This can be seen in Tennessee Williams’s play A Streetcar Named Desire through Stanley and Stella’s relationship. Stanley constantly abuses Stella even while carrying his child but Stella refuses to leave Stanley because of how much she loves him. Williams's presentation of marital domestic violence and Stockholm syndrome conveys the message that although women were treated poorly during this time

Change and loss are inevitable Compare and contrast the ways in which change and loss are presented in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ and Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry collection ‘Mean Time’ Both Williams- in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’- and Duffy – in ‘Mean Time’- present change and loss as central, complex ideas. The consternation of change is an intrinsic human fear, as demonstrated by characters in both works of literature. Setting, characterization and allegory are just some of the ways they present

In stories such as A Raisin in the Sun, Maggie,The Great Gatsby, and Mice of Men, attaining materialistic possessions and significant relationships is the understanding of the American Dream and was valued due to its ability to increase one’s stature within society. The American dream consist of desirable items and relationships that demonstrate wealth and happiness. In specific cases the American dream was assumed to be achieved through property ownership,love and advancement of social class. The

I Dreamed a Dream is a soliloquy piece, sung by Fantine during act one of Les Misérables (1980). Fantine has just been fired from her factory job after it is discovered that she has an illegitimate child and takes to selling herself on the streets to pay for medicine for her daughter. It is here that ‘I Dreamed a Dream,’ is sung as a way of progressing the story and providing a realisation by the character of her unfortunate situation in life with the song being composed as a way of expressing the

Desire, displays the theme of cruelty and violence through the relationship of Blanche and Stanley. The relationship is seen in the way he treats her throughout the play, in the final scenes when he

Desirability: Perpetuating Racism and Marginalization with A Streetcar Named Desire You’ve rode a streetcar named Desire, just descended from another called Cemeteries after riding six blocks to an avenue with the unlikely name of Elysian Fields, and alighted to the two room apartment of the Kowalski’s. You are in New Orleans with its streetcars, the blistering heat, everything all moving in slow motion underneath the mouths of shady summer trees. The cacophony of jazz and footsteps fill

Blanche’s desires are what have determined the course of her life, from falling in love with Allan to losing him and losing her job because of her relationship with the school boy and with her flirtation with Stanley and her ‘profound’ outpourings in the presence of Mitch. The Lady of Shallot’s passion and desire for Sir Lancelot Persuaded her to leave her island but in both cases there is something which mostly seems to be inseparable from desire;

ar Named Desire, the recurring symbol of light— exhibited in various forms throughout the play— tangibly reveals various characters’ narratives of Blanche and uncovers the state of their relationship with her. From stage directions regarding lighting to references to light and darkness in Blanche’s monologues, the light becomes a figurative spotlight that Blanche blindly performs in. Tennessee Williams casts Blanche into a one-woman show, where she personalizes her appearance and aura according to

wishes to be in control of her present life. Taking long showers signify an escape mechanism for many people who are struggling, and as we know it Blanche is struggling mentally and so she wishes to get rid of all the judgments she receives from Stanley and other men. Unfortunately, Blanche is unable to erase her past completely no matter how many baths she takes, she

In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche possess a common theme of wanting to hold onto her youth. Blanche’s stance on her age is best expressed with her relationship with Mitch. After a couple nights out with Blanche, Mitch nevers learns her age because he was too in love with Blanche. On the other hand, Blanche worried about the dreadful question “How old are you.” With the feeling of being too old for Mitch, Blanche wasn’t confident in telling him her age. In scene 6 Mitch says, “I talked to my mother