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Elia Kazan's 'A Streetcar Named Desire'

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A 4 page analysis of Kazan's movie (based on Tennessee Williams' play) which discusses the probability, plausibility, and consistency of their actions in regards to the individual characteristics assigned to them. The paper also provides references to how the actors hired helped establish the characters' roles. No additional sources cited.

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4 pages (~225 words per page)

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then transfer to one called Cemeteries and get off at Elysian Fields." As all of these represent a progressive movement from desire/life to cemeteries/death and Elysian Fields/afterlife, the probability is established that Blanche is going to die in the final scenes of the movie. The plausibility of this happening continues to be addressed throughout the first part of the movie. She is nervous and fragile, she is an alcoholic, and she is keeping something secret. However, the more she interacts with Stanley, the harder we find it to believe that she is going to die of old age. Instead, we begin to believe that there is something else like liver failure or cancer, or something more sinister, like a push from an upper balcony, to bring about the probable demise of Blanche. Instead of her flirtatiousness leading us to believe that Blanche is healthy and will live, we consider the probability that a last-minute liaison with a man, even her sisters husband, is the probability promised in the word "desire." Even when Blanche talks to Stella about the necessity of a woman her age having to look beautiful to trap a man, namely Mitch, there is still a little to doubt that the cover up of her impending death is just not another part of her overall facade. Yet, because of the continuing inconsistencies between what she says and her actions, the doubt sets in. What is Blanche really hiding? What we find ourselves doing is looking more at the consistency in Brandos role as Stanley Kowalski. He is exactly what Blanche calls him, a "brute" and "swine," and proud of it. Because of ...

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