Was Blanche‘S Tragic Downfall a Result of Her Own Actions or Was It Solely Caused by the Other Characters?

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Was Blanche‘s tragic downfall a result of her own actions or was it solely vaused by the other characters? Many of the characters in ‘A streetcar named desire’ contributed to the Blanche’s downfall. It can be argued that Blanche’s downfall was caused by her own actions within the play. Although there is evidence of her sanity slipping right from the beginning of the play the other characters cause her to lose grip of her mental stability by the end of the play. The definition of tragic genre is; a drama or literary work in which the main character is brought to ruin or suffers extreme sorrow. Aristotle stated that the hero must have a tragic downfall caused partially by their own action. In Blanche Dubois’ case her actions caused her to arrive in New Orleans from that point the other characters contributed to her tragic downfall. Blanche’s past revealed her to be suffering before arriving in New Orleans. ‘I stayed for it, bled for it and almost died for it!’ Blanche is expressing her hard life before she came to New Orleans. The breaking up of this sentence and the punctuation helps to express her emotions at this point in the play as she is upset and in distress, the breaks allow the audience to see her struggling to talk and attempting to form a sentence. This implies that it’s an emotional topic. Also her lack of confidence to form this sentence could show her lack of stability. Blanche’s intimacies created her downfall as they weren’t permanent. After Blanches husband committed suicide Blanche was alone and felt the need to be intimate with many men so that she wouldn’t be alone, she thought that the men were helping to detach herself from the horrors of her life and stop herself from acknowledging her guilt from her husband’s suicide; Critic Kathleen Margaret Lant claims ‘Williams does consider Blanche guilty for not saving her husband from his

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