Explore the ways that Tennessee Williams constructs the character of Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire and Willy Russell constructs the character of Rita in Educating Rita in light of the opinion that they have the desire to escape reality and fulfil their fantasies. Despite being set in different periods of history, both plays ‘Educating Rita’ and ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ share similar themes of the fine line between fantasy and reality, and losing yourself in the former. In 1945 Tennessee Williams began work on the play ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’, and with the war ending in the same year, the play to reflects the cultural tensions of World War 2. Many felt uncomfortable being an environment with so many nationalities they were only a few years ago at war with. Cultural tensions are present in Blanche’s remark that Stanley is a ‘Polack’; during World War 2, the Polish were seen as the enemy; Blanche using this insult is not because she is against Polacks, but is her taking advantage of the frequently used insult at the time.
The writer of this article talks about how the basement isn’t just a hiding place for a Jew or a refuge to learn but it is a place to rebel against authority when Max transforms it into a setting for creative/political activity by painting over Hitler’s Mein Kampf erasing Hitler’s authority and becoming his own authority. Maslin, Janet. “Stealing to Settle a Score with Life.” New York Times, Published by Janet Maslin, Monday 27 March 2006. Wednesday 30 April 2014. This article is a review on the book itself; however the article also talks about important points involving the main character Liesel Meminger “the book thief” and how they dealt with life during the war.
After the end of World War 1, a new fear gripped the world-Communism. The world viewed communism as a threat to democracy and there was an unspoken agreement that the world not allow its spread. This fear only worsened after World War 2 with the signing of the Alien Registration Act of 1940. This act required everyone who was not a legal American resident to fill a form stating their political beliefs. The
Their scholarship seemed to reveal the war as it sordid scramble among imperialist powers. -the new disillusion was clinched in 1934 and 1935 by the work of the Senate committee set up under the chairmanship of Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota to investigate the munitions industry. - The Nye committee purported to show that the United States had been shoved into the war when international bankers saw no other way to guarantee be payment of the vast credits they had granted to the Western Allies. - Nye also charged Wilson with duplicity in pretending to be ignorant of the secret treaties. - The Nye Committee consolidated the isolationists' argument.
He walks down and he and I, we fight for hours.” (Zusak 255) Hatred and a longing to fight the Fuhrer is understandable for Max who is a Jew; however, he rightfully teaches Liesel, a German, to despise the dictator too. Later, when her town is bombed, and her family and friends are killed, Liesel demonstrates a vast hatred towards the ruler of Nazi Germany. More than
Communism in the Cold War "The seeds of totalitarian regimes are nurtured by misery and want, they spread and grow in the evil soil of the poverty and strife. They reach their full growth when the hope of a people for a better life has died. We must keep that hope alive." as said by Harry S. Truman on march 12, 1947 in The Truman Doctrine. While Truman, Eisenhower, and Kennedy all had the same same Cold War intention of ending communism, their ways of achieving their goal were different.The Cold War was an angry dispute between the United States and the Soviet Union about whether we should spread or contain communism (Ayres 817).
The Cold War was also known as the Red Scare. The war was between Italy, Germany, Japan, and the United States. “The Cold War policy was to contain them with the hope, the internal division, failure that era evolution might end their treat”(Columbia Encyclopedia).“Describing the shifting struggle for power and prestige between the western powers and the communist bloc from the end of World War 2 until 1989”(Columbia Encyclopedia).The televised army-McCarthy hearing from April until July lead to McCarthy’s downfall. It’s bullying and rude personality waved the spotlight as he and committable council Ray Cohn, attacked the army the response of an army counsel, Joseph Welch, to McCarthy’s attack or a Welch’s film helped to end the McCarthy’s era. The anit-communist of the era was carried out in many ways but McCarthyism was about calling people , accusing them of being communist and withholding information.
When Germany then invaded Poland. A group of countries called all the clans united to defeat Germany and its friends, who were their enemy. Germany joined Italy,Japan and Russia ( but Russia changed sides part-way through the war, they betrayed Germany). In the most cases it is accepted that the main cause of World War 2 was Germany’s political, social and economic instability. 2.
This chapter illuminates Napoleon’s corrupt and power-hungry motivations. He openly and unabashedly seizes power for himself, banishes Snowball with no justification, and shows a bald-faced willingness to rewrite history in order to further his own ends. Similarly, Stalin forced Trotsky from Russia and seized control of the country after Lenin’s death. Orwell’s experience in a persecuted Trotskyist political group in the late 1930s during the Spanish Civil War may have contributed to his comparatively positive portrayal of Snowball. Trotsky was eventually murdered in Mexico, but Stalin continued to evoke him as a phantom threat, the symbol of all enemy forces, when he began his bloody purges of the 1930s.
During the war he became a prominent writer of “Exileliteratur”, showing his opposition to the National Socialist and Fascist movements through his famous plays : “Leben des Galilei”, “Der gute Mensch von Sezuan”, “Der aufhatsame Aufstieg des Arturo Ui”, “Der Kaukasische Kreidekreis”, “ Furcht und Elend des Dritten Reiches” and last but not least “Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder” written in 1939 considered to be one of the greatest anti-war play of all time having as a protagonist a woman, Anna Fierling also known as “Mutter Courage”. Bertolt Brecht is known best for not following “Eine Aristotelische Dramatik” (Suhrkamp Verlag – “Schriften zum Theater”), but creating a new concept of the 20th century theatre by the creation of a fourth wall which separates the stage and the actors performing the play from the audience. The spectators are now able to experience a new type of directing a play never attempted before. It is as if they would actually simulate a time machine which can allow them to share the same feelings and emotions as