The Charater of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire :: Streetcar Named Desire

The Charater of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire     In A Streetcar Named Desire we focus on three chief(prenominal) characters. One of these characters is a lady called Blanche. As the play progresses, we gradually get to know more about Blanche and the type of person she really is in personal credit line to the type of person that she would like everybody else to think she is. Using four main mediums, symbolism and imagery, Blanches action when by herself, Blanches past and her dialogue with others such as Mitch, Stanley and the paperboy, we squirt draw a number of conclusions about Blanche until the end of Scene Five. Using the fore mentioned mediums we can deter that Blanche is deceptive, egotistical and seductive.     The writer, Tennesse Williams uses symbolism and imagery to help let the idea that Blanche is deceptive, egotistical and seductive. We can clearly discover how deceptive Blanche is by the symbolism that Williams uses throughout the play. One can note how Blanche continually wears white dresses or a red kimono when she is being especially flirtatious, so that she makes heap think that she is innocent and pure. In Scene Five Blanches white dress, a symbol of goodness is stained which is symbolic of the fact that Blanche if far from being pure. Blanches world hinges on illusion and deception as can be seen when Blanche pours her heart out to Stella in scene five, soft people... have got to be seductive... make a little - temporary magic. Blanche feels that she must trick and deceive in order to dwell in a world where she is fading now and her looks are leaving her. We are introduced to Blanche as a delicate beauty that must avoid knockout light. Williams, portrays Blanche as an uncertain character who hides behind the veneer of outer beauty and who when is placed under the spotlight, fails to live up to the person she would like people to think that she is. Williams also provides strong imager y of her as a moth, as she is dressed in white clothes and is fluttering. This imagery of Blanche as a moth is unless emphasised when Blanche herself later states, put on soft colours, the colours of butterfly wings and glow.