ENCW 205 Fall 2021
Posted in A Streetcar Named Desire on Oct 7th, 2021
Stanley is a drunk, stubborn, violent misogynist and a symbol of brute power because he can shape the world around him. Tennessee Williams describes how “animal joy in his being is implicit in all his movements and attitudes” (24). He is often boisterous, and his word is the final word. His personality is vividly colored, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2021
Next week — on Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in the 1948 Theater in the FAC — we’ll have the opportunity to watch the new documentary film City of A Million Dreams. After the film, the director Jason Berry and co-producer Simonette Berry, will discuss the film and answer our questions. Take a look at the […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2021
Olivia’s post led me to this fascinating discussion of Jacques Guillaume Lucien Amans’ painting Creole in A Red Headdress (c.1840). Amans travelled from his native France to New Orleans to find work as a portraiturist, and he was quite successful. As a part of an art history seminar, students at Tulane University included Creole in A […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 7th, 2021
Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas makes it a point very early on to highlight the unique ways in which the city and its residents are at once separated by distinct cultural and geographical markers and pushed together due to lack of land and the very human tendency to commune and exchange culture. In the 1700s, […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 5th, 2021
Throughout the story temptation and destruction were the main themes that were seen. The two main characters Blanche and Stanley best showed these themes. Though they are very different there seems to be a fine line between them or at least its easy to slip to either side of the spectrum. Blanche was a self-proclaimed […]
Posted in A Streetcar Named Desire on Oct 3rd, 2021
Up until the literal ending itself, both versions of A Streetcar Named Desire, the script and the movie adaptation, generally stay pretty similar. In the script, there’s a few additive mentions such as the specific notes about how Mitch was supposed to sit with him looking dazed and “dissolved into space,” and how “There is […]
Posted in A Streetcar Named Desire on Oct 3rd, 2021
In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche’s view of the world is complex and hard to completely unwrap. This is due to how she presents herself differently than how she really wants to think and act. Like in The Awakening, Blanche understands that the society she lives in has certain rules for her behavior. Her reputation […]
Posted in A Streetcar Named Desire on Oct 1st, 2021
[posted on behalf of a student] In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois deals with mental illness. The reader is not told exactly what mental illness(es) she has, but the reader can guess at a few that she may have. The only one the reader is told about is anxiety. As Blanche tells Stanley, “I […]