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Name Tutor Course Date Blanche De Bois versus Willy Loman Blanche Du Boise is a character in Tennesse‘s fictional plain by the title a street car named desire while Willy Loman is a fictional character in Arthurs miller play; death of a sales man. Blanche in the play street car named desire is an extremely complicated character who appears to have internal conflicts throughout the play. She appears to be from the upper class society as her name suggests and upon meeting her she appears cultured and sophisticated. Her dressing suggests purity and innocence but it doesn’t take long to realize she is pretending. Her attempt to cover up her drinking problem and promiscuous behavior all foreshadow her eventual destruction of her character.†¦show more content†¦As seen above the protagonists in the two plays the streetcar named desire and that of the salesman both meet tragic ends. Blanche is forcefully sent to a mental hospital after being raped by Stanley. Willy on the other hand accepted death as his last escape and resis tance from the truth and the society. The two plays combine reality with illusion that the characters create fir themselves .blanche uses lies to lie to everyone around her even fooling herself of her tragic past. Willy on the other hand seems as if he’s not even aware of the fact that he is trapped in his illusion of the American dream which promises fulfilling his dream of wealthy life he had worked for all his life. Therefore the two characters are similar in away (Smith 10). Works Cited Kundtz, John Skelly. A streetcar named Desire: A study of determinism in modern drama. (1959). Miller, Arthur, and Enoch Brater. Death of a Salesman. London: Methuen Drama, 2010. Print. Schechner, Richard. Race free, gender free, body-type free, age free casting. TDR (1988-) 33.1 (1989): 4-12. Smith, Loretta Wagner, Philip Sapienza, and Katherine Sweeney. What is happening to broadway?. Communication Quarterly 7.1 (1959): 20-29. Smith, Loretta Wagner, Philip Sapienza, and Katherine Sweeney. What is happening to broadway?. Communication Quarterly 7.1 (1959): 20-29. Smith, Loretta Wagner, Philip Sapienza, and Katherine Sweeney. What is happening to broadway?. CommunicationShow MoreRelatedComparison of Character and Voice1678 Words   |  7 PagesDiscuss the ways in which the poets present character and voice in; ‘Medusa’ and ‘Les Grands Seigneurs’ The two poems; ‘Medusa’ and ‘Les Grands Seigneurs’ (LGS) have their similarities and differences. The most obvious being both speakers are women and how they subdue men. However, the most apparent difference is the way both poets present character, with ‘Medusa’ and her jealousy and mistrust towards her partner; ‘†¦a doubt, a jealously’. 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