Street Car Named Desire - scene ten review

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English course work – Street Car Named Desire – Scene 10

In this essay I am going to be explaining why and what makes this scene the most powerful scene in the play, I will also be giving an overlook on the characters, actions and the stage directions. My essay will include quotes from the play and how an audience would react and feel to the actions given by each of the characters.

After reading the book I found scene 10 the most dramatic scene in the play because this is the scene where Blanche gets raped by her sisters husband Stanley, he comes on to her and frightens the life out of her by using threatening lines such as ‘Tiger – tiger! Drop the bottle-top! Drop it! We’ve had this date from the beginning!’ and that is when he finally rapes her, that is what finally leads to Stanley and Stella finally putting her in an institution.

Leading up to this scene Blanche has been through a lot starting from the beginning blanche got married to a young man who she liked to call the boy, she found him in bed with another man, the boy felt so ashamed he couldn’t live with the guilt and he killed himself after she became a sort of slut hanging around a hotel waiting for men to pick her up, she stayed with these men for a while and they gave her a lot of expensive gifts and when she got bored she left them and moved on to the next. She also got fired from her school teaching job as an English teacher because of a fling with a student. After all this she moved in temporarily with Stella and Stanley, Stanley always accused blanche of trying to fraud him for all of his money and then she met Mitch a fairly nice man, Blanche and Mitch got together and in the end it ended with Mitch raping blanche, I would think the audience would disgusted with these actions of Mitch but in all fairness Blanche had it coming to her.

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This scene is back at the flat with Stella at the hospital having her baby and Blanche Stanley all alone in the flat. No one else is present in the scene to give one hundred percent focus on blanche and Stanley in this dramatic climax of his scene.

Just before this scene Blanche has had a confrontation with her boyfriend Mitch that ended with controversy. The stage directions explain that Blanche has began packing her clothes and is ready to leave and move on, She is also drinking very heavily and is talking to her self. She also took ...

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