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Blanche DuBois - Coggle Diagram
Blanche DuBois
Key Quotations
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"I want to be near you, got to be with somebody, I can't be alone! Because - as you must have noticed - I'm - not very well..."
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Relationship with Others
Stella
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Both Stella and Blanche had opposing personalities. Blanche is quite talkative yet fragile whereas Stella is quite quiet but by changing her lifestyle to Stanley's, she is coping in life.
Blanche still represents the old south within Belle Reve but Stella represents the new south in Elysian Fields.
Stanley
Stanley dominates Blanche by using her weaknesses to manipulate her and to make her frightened of him.
It is implied that Blanche is raped by Stanley at the end of the play, taking away the rest of her dignity, eventually forcing her to be sectioned at a psychiatric ward.
Blanche fantasises a lot whereas Stanley focuses on the reality rather than the appearance of things in life.
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Mitch
Both Mitch and Blanche are an example of a co-dependant relationship that is founded on mutual loneliness and the desire to be with anyone in order to forget past, emotional trauma's.
"You need somebody. And I need somebody, too. Could it be - you and me, Blanche?"
Their relationship does not work out due to the fact that Mitch finds out about Blanche's history with young men.
Appearance
"She is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and ear-rings of pearl, white gloves and hat..." - white signifying innocence and purity with the ability to be stained.
"There is something about her uncertain manner, as well as her white clothes, that suggests a moth." - suggesting how she is pure and innocent but also delicate and fragile.
Themes
Vulnerability/Loneliness
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Blanche uses bathing and alcohol to disappear into fantasy which further supports her lonely lifestyle.
Fantasy/Illusion
Bathing and Alcohol allow blanche to disappear into a land of fantasy, forgetting the reality and emotional trauma's that she has experienced throughout life.
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