Act V Excerpt From The Play A Streetcar Named Desire

This Act V excerpt from the play is part of an argument between Doctor Relling and Gregers Werle, over whether or not preserving this blissful ignorance can sometimes be the best course of action if the knowledge of the truth is too difficult to face. Blanche, in A Streetcar Named Desire, is heavily relatable to the characters in The Wild Duck because of her fearful approach to the truth and decision to live in a state of blissful ignorance, which is why the excerpts are paired next to each other. Blanche tells to Mitch that she lies because she cannot accept many truths of her situation. Creating an illusion to herself and other people in her life allows her to turn her life into what it should be rather than what it is. Stanley, more of a realist, despises Blanche’s fabrications and does everything he can to unravel them. Blanche and Stanley’s somewhat antagonistic relationship is a struggle between blissful ignorance and the burden of knowledge. When Blanche gets to New Orleans, she decides that she must keep others unaware of her struggles and pretend she is on vacation so nobody would think less of her, and she would not have to face the consequences of the truth of her situation. She continuously has baths so no one would see her dirty or tired, and she believes she is too old and uses the darkness to shield herself. In this passage, the truth finally comes out. She reveals that she misleads people because she wants to give them magic, instead of difficult, or evenShow MoreRelatedProject Mgmt296381 Words   |  1186 Pageswith teaching awards from both the Oregon State University MBA program and the University of Oregon Executive MBA program. He has been a member of the Portland, Oregon, chapter of the Project Management Institute since 1984. In 1995 he worked as a Fulbright scholar with faculty at the Krakow Academy of Economics on modernizing Polish business education. In 2005 he was a visiting professor at Chulalongk orn University in Bangkok, Thailand. He received a B.A. in psychology from Claremont McKenna College