Re: Sorry! I am late!

Poster： Janet Chi at 10:28:0 6/18/98 from c550-12.svdcc.fju.edu.tw
RE Christine Lin at 10:25:17 6/18/98 posted 「Sorry! I am late!」Subject

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>> Blanche in the play
>> Author, Tennessee Williams tried to present the conflict between reality and illusion. He has always wondered which is real- the outside world of houses and streets, or the inner world of memories hopes and fears, it seems that he tried to claim that the true romantic can find the meaning of life only through his faith in idealism, dreams and illusion. The result is the destruction of the romantic by the unromantic, the sensitive by the insensitive. Blanche in the play has maintained her believe in a Southern way of life, which are beautiful clothes, find manners and aristocratic and aristocratic, She is a representative of a dead tradition in Southern which used to make a woman " feel important with her secure positions and functions, her special worth. The inner world in which she would prefer to live contrasts sharply with the world in which she has to live. So she is doomed to retreat into the world of fantasy, a world based on her memories of being a Southern belle. From other aspect, we can say that Blanche's idealism is not absolutely superior to Stanley's vulgarity, while Stanley's brutality is not totally without any human nature. So the more we explore what Blanche insists upon, the more we can find the affectations under the mask she wear, also to Stanley, there are some tender qualities behind the macho villain.
>> But Blanche's stubborn sticking to it only makes her isolated among those who know nothing about the tradition. Even her sister, Stella, who gives up practically the tradition as if it were merely as a dream. However, being the last fighter for the tradition, she has to try her superior by talking differently, dressing herself differently, laughing at their rudeness and even telling lies to them. Sometimes I will think that why she does so is because losing the old tradition that she used to have and she lost her confidence, too.
>> Besides, I am interested in the most in the play is color and costume, for they usually regarded as the conveyance for the emotional strength of characters in the play. For example, Stanley appears on the stage in primary colors, which represent his sensual taste (blue denim work clothes) Blanche's favorite color is white, which represents her purity and idealism. When she first appears in the play, " her expression is one of shocked disbelief. Her appearance is incongruous to this setting. Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light, And later on the dress she wears are all ladylike which show that the old traditions still in her mind.
>> As the scene 1 has showed, Blanche answered Eunice, " They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and… get off at Elysian Fields!" yes, these three expressions-- "Desire", " Cemeteries", and "Elysian Field" had mentioned the whole future for Blanche. With the roaring desire indise her, she is to be torn apart. And thus, the " Elysian Fields" will be waiting for her beyond the " Cemeteries" she has to pass.
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>> >>                        Blanche in the play

>> >>      Author, Tennessee Williams tried to present the conflict between reality and illusion. He has always wondered which is real- the outside world of houses and streets, or the inner world of memories hopes and fears, it seems that he tried to claim that the true romantic can find the meaning of life only through his faith in idealism, dreams and illusion. The result is the destruction of the romantic by the unromantic, the sensitive by the insensitive. Blanche in the play has maintained her believe in a Southern way of life, which are beautiful clothes, find manners and aristocratic and aristocratic, She is a representative of a dead tradition in Southern which used to make a woman " feel important with her secure positions and functions, her special worth. The inner world in which she would prefer to live contrasts sharply with the world in which she has to live. So she is doomed to retreat into the world of fantasy, a world based on her memories of being a Southern belle. From other aspect, we can say that Blanche's idealism is not absolutely superior to Stanley's vulgarity, while Stanley's brutality is not totally without any human nature. So the more we explore what Blanche insists upon, the more we can find the affectations under the mask she wear, also to Stanley, there are some tender qualities behind the macho villain.

>> >>      But Blanche's stubborn sticking to it only makes her isolated among those who know nothing about the tradition. Even her sister, Stella, who gives up practically the tradition as if it were merely as a dream. However, being the last fighter for the tradition, she has to try her superior by talking differently, dressing herself differently, laughing at their rudeness and even telling lies to them. Sometimes I will think that why she does so is because losing the old tradition that she used to have and she lost her confidence, too.

>> >>      Besides, I am interested in the most in the play is color and costume, for they usually regarded as the conveyance for the emotional strength of characters in the play. For example, Stanley appears on the stage in primary colors, which represent his sensual taste (blue denim work clothes) Blanche's favorite color is white, which represents her purity and idealism.  When she first appears in the play, " her expression is one of shocked disbelief. Her appearance is incongruous to this setting. Her delicate beauty must avoid a strong light, And later on the dress she wears are all ladylike which show that the old traditions still in her mind.

>> >>      As the scene 1 has showed, Blanche answered Eunice, " They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, and then transfer to one called Cemeteries and… get off at Elysian Fields!" yes, these three expressions-- "Desire", " Cemeteries", and  "Elysian Field" had mentioned the whole future for Blanche. With the roaring desire indise her, she is to be torn apart. And thus, the " Elysian Fields" will be waiting for her beyond the  " Cemeteries" she has to pass.

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