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

The Charater of Blanche in A Streetcar Named zest     In A Streetcar Named Desire we focus on three important characters. mavin of these characters is a lady called Blanche. As the play progresses, we gradually get to receive more about Blanche and the type of person she really is in short letter to the type of person that she would analogous everybody else to think she is. Using four main mediums, symbolism and imaging, Blanches action when by herself, Blanches past and her dialogue with others such as Mitch, Stanley and the paperboy, we can draw a number of conclusions about Blanche until the end of injection fiver. 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 convey the idea that Blanche is deceptive, egotistical and seductive. We can clearly ruin how deceptive Blanche is by the symbolism that Williams uses throughout t he play. One can phone line how Blanche continually wears white dresses or a red kimono when she is being oddly flirtatious, so that she makes people think that she is innocent and pure. In Scene Five Blanches white dress, a symbol of purity 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, fragile people... have got to be seductive... make a little - temporary head game. Blanche feels that she must trick and deceive in order to survive in a world where she is fading now and her looks ar leaving her. We are introduced to Blanche as a delicate beauty that must avoid well light. Williams, portrays Blanche as an uncertain character who hides behind the veneer of outermost 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 s trong imagery of her as a moth, as she is dressed in white clothes and is fluttering. This imagery of Blanche as a moth is further emphasised when Blanche herself later states, put on downlike colours, the colours of butterfly wings and glow.