"Blue Jasmine," a modernized version of Tennessee Williams' theatrical masterpiece, "A Streetcar Named Desire," depicts Jasmine French as a character based on Blanche Dubois. Woody Allen, the director of "Blue Jasmine," creates more sympathy for the Blanche character than Tennessee Williams does. Allen is able to do this by including Blanche's whole back-story and showing that her first husband made her the way she was. In the movie, you feel sympathetic for Jasmine because you realize that her deceased husband, Hal, continued to cheat on her and was a complete fraud as a businessman. In the play, you don't feel sympathetic for Blanche because she basically caused her husbands death, lied to most people she met, and destroyed some people's lives along the way. .
Woody Allen shows Jasmine's past one piece at a time through a series of flashbacks. This helps the audience to sympathize with her because they can see how her husband's personal and business affairs destroy her stability. During the first flashback, Jasmine seems to have the perfect life and the perfect husband. As each new flashback appears, the audience learns about another problem their relationship. Her husband happens to be some kind of businessman; what kind, the audience doesn't really get to know. The audience does learn, however, that he makes much of his money from fraudulent business dealings. The audience also learns that Hal has many affairs and lies to Jasmines face about them. .
Conversely to the way Jasmine's past is presented, Williams reveals Blanche's past all at once. He also presents it in such a way that makes it look like she is the only one who can be blamed for her problems. Stanley explains to Stella what really happened to Blanche and how he has three people to back him. He says "She's not going back to teach school She'd gotten mixed up with!" (Williams 122). The lies Blanche has told are being revealed.
Tennesee Williams' Use Of Stage Effects And How They Change A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire is mastery of the use of lighting, setting, and sound to add to emotion and meaning to a play. ... It seems that the minor details of music, sound effects, lighting, and setting were actually some of the most important points of A Streetcar Named Desire. ...
Tennessee Williams' play A Streetcar Named Desire shows the tensions between reality and fantasy, common sense and imagination, and between male and female. ... As if she is being treated as a slave, she sings, "From the land of the sky blue water, they brought a captive maid!... She says," They told me to take a streetcar named Desire, then transfer to one called Cemeteries[]get off at Elysian Fields!... Blanche got on Desire, the streetcar and rode it to get to where she wanted to go. ... After the analysis of major characters, it has been determined that A Streetcar Named Des...
Stella will mingle her blood with a man of blue-collar stock, and Blanche will enter the world of madness. ... The setting of New Orleans is important to the play: The city is one of powerful contrasts: old French architecture and the new rhythms of jazz; a kind of Old World refinement mixed with the stones of poverty and modern life; decay and corruption alongside the regenerative powers of desire and procreation. The city is eternally in a state of convulsion, a mix of the modern world and New Orleans' confused history; in the American imagination, New Orleans is also associated with de...
"Will I get to meet this beautiful Jasmine?" ... Then Jasmine disappeared into the woods. ... "Tell me what Jasmine," interrupted Ezio. ... "Yes that's us and the name is Rythian with an N not an X that and Jasmine is pregnant we couldn't move to quickly we were attacked by bandits two nights ago and since then we have been slow and cautious I don't want my child and wife hurt." replied Rythian "and how long has the girl been pregnant for my friend," asked the owner. "The girl has been pregnant for one month and my name Jasmine thank you very much." said Jasmine angrily. ...
Tennessee Williams' play, "A Streetcar Named Desire," first opened in the late 1940's, cut line which had defined traditional gender roles began to blur. ... "A Streetcar Named Desire" debuted in the December of 1947 but was written in the year prior to its release. ... He is a "blue-collared"" man who worked his way into a lifestyle as opposed to one of the hated spoon fed aristocrats. ...
Tennessee Williams uses symbols to help communicate his ideas in A Streetcar Named Desire. ... Clothing is a recurring symbol in A Streetcar Named Desire. ... This is represented by the music of the Blue Piano, which is constantly being played. ... Death, as told by Blanche, is the opposite of Desire, and Blanche wishes to be desired. ... The streetcar named Desire leads to a streetcar named Cemeteries, and both of the most important characters suffer death in one way of another. ...
Viewing of A Streetcar Named Desire Although the basic story line is the same in both the book and the live play of A streetcar Named Desire, some things were different. ... She then goes out the door and has a short conversation with the woman sitting on the steps before leaving to go to the bowling alley. ... For the most part, reading A Streetcar Named Desire was very similar to the live performance. ...
