A Streetcar Named Desire

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A Streetcar Named Desire

        Tennessee Williams wrote a Streetcar Named Desire in the 1940's. Tennessee Williams is one of America's most famous and well-respected authors. The book itself is about a woman called Blanche DuBois who is getting no younger and has many problems. Blanche moves into her sisters house Stella DuBois who has got a husband called Stanley in which Blanche is very jealous of. Blanche tells her sister that the reason she was there was that their old family home in which only Blanche had lived named "Belle Reve" had been lost through tax. Stanley gets suspicious of Blanche and believes that she sold Belle Reve to profit herself. Stella has doubts whether her own sister would do such a thing and gets angry with Stanley. Stanley puts Blanche through lots of hassle and pressure and eventually rapes her, this eventually drives Blanche into madness.

        Tennessee Williams uses some very weird and interesting sound effects in the film of A Streetcar Named Desire to go with the story line. These sounds go very well with the story as it helps the story progress. The music and sound effects often describes the mood of the atmosphere in the story for example at the very start of the film when Blanche enters New Orleans the music is very jolly and happy where there is some music at the start called the "Blue Piano". Throughout the story when Blanche goes a bit mad the music becomes quite loud and thrilling, also the sound effects of Blanche screaming are good as they echo her every word. The music and sound effects are quite smooth when Blanche and Mitch are together, the music is quite romantic and very quite. The music when Stanley is around is quite loud and in many cases the sound effects are as though the characters are panicking. For every character the sound effects and music is different, this is also the case through other parts of the story as you progress the music gradually gets different (as Blanche is drawn to madness). At the end of the story after Stanley rapes Blanche, she decides to leave because of all the pressure, leaving Stanley feeling very guilty. Through the text and the music at the end of the story I can tell that this is meant to be the sad bit of the story as you hear every word Blanche saying is echoed and the atmosphere is very alive, by this time Blanche is completely mad and must be sent away.

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        In The Streetcar Named Desire there are a variety of different characters that have different roles in the story like Blanche and Stanley who are very important characters in the story and Steve, Pablo and Eunice. All the characters have there own distinctive attitude, for example Blanche has a sort of a quite nature as Stanley has a very angry and violent nature. Stanley is very intimidating and very depressing to Blanche who tries to do the up most to be nice to him and his wife Stella. Steve and Pablo are friends of Stanley, which is hardly surprising as ...

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