A Streetcar Named Desire, which has been widely accepted as the world-renowned work of Tennessee Williams, is a play with both of complexity and charm. After its publication, this play has attracted a lot of scholars ...A Streetcar Named Desire, which has been widely accepted as the world-renowned work of Tennessee Williams, is a play with both of complexity and charm. After its publication, this play has attracted a lot of scholars and critics to interpret and study on it from the different aspects of views. The present paper attempts to certificate that the main character Blanche, in this play, who is live in a social background with the highlights of the conflict between the American southern plantation culture and the northern industrial civilization, suffers from the consistent change of her living space, her original world continually encounters destruction and invasion. Therefore, she has to step into another world; and she has to survive among different world. In addition, through digging into and interpreting the character Blanche, it investigates that people are of suffering and pain when they were in the process of adjusting and adapting themselves from their original world to their present- living world, and all Blanche's roads lead to a tragic.展开更多
A Streetcar Named Desire is regarded as one of the most successful masterpieces of Tennessee Williams. An outstanding feature of the play is the wide use of symbolism. Symbols can be seen everywhere and even all the s...A Streetcar Named Desire is regarded as one of the most successful masterpieces of Tennessee Williams. An outstanding feature of the play is the wide use of symbolism. Symbols can be seen everywhere and even all the symbols in the play are con nected with the protagonist Blanche DuBois. Williams applies symbolism throughout the play to make Blanche's tragic fate more vivid to the readers. Her tragic fate lies in her clinging to illusion, thus she is bound to be abandoned by the harsh reality. There fore, the thesis attempts to give a comprehensive analysis of some specific symbols: symbols of illusion represented by the Chinese paper lantern and a paper moon, and symbol of reality represented by the light to further illustrate Blanche's tragically symbolic fate.展开更多
This article explores the fundamental elements which lead to the tragedy of Blanche, the heroine in Streetcar written by Tennessee Williams. In this drama, Williams tells us that we must accept the realistic view towa...This article explores the fundamental elements which lead to the tragedy of Blanche, the heroine in Streetcar written by Tennessee Williams. In this drama, Williams tells us that we must accept the realistic view towards life, no matter how much we may dislike it, life only provides space for woman who is practical and conscientious, and not for those who are dissolute and live in illusions.展开更多
Introduction:Livedoid vasculopathy is a chronic noninflammatory skin disease secondary to hypercoagulable states.No therapeutic guideline has yet been established for livedoid vasculopathy.We herein report a case of l...Introduction:Livedoid vasculopathy is a chronic noninflammatory skin disease secondary to hypercoagulable states.No therapeutic guideline has yet been established for livedoid vasculopathy.We herein report a case of livedoid vasculopathy secondary to protein C deficiency that was successfully treated with rivaroxaban.Case presentation:A 31-year-old Thai woman who had been diagnosed with livedoid vasculopathy 10 years previously presented with a 2-month history of worsening leg ulcers and failure to respond to aspirin,colchicine,and pentoxifylline.Further investigations confirmed protein C deficiency.Rivaroxaban was initiated,and clinical improvement was achieved in 8 weeks.Discussion:When livedoid vasculopathy is confirmed by skin biopsy,additional investigations for hypercoagulable states should be performed to exclude secondary causes.Identification of the causes of livedoid vasculopathy can direct physicians to therapeutic options based on previously reported cases of successful treatment.Our patient,whose livedoid vasculopathy was caused by protein C deficiency,responded well to rivaroxaban.Conclusion:Protein C deficiency results in a hypercoagulable state,and affected patients can present with livedoid vasculopathy.The anticoagulant rivaroxaban has been beneficial in the treatment of livedoid vasculopathy.展开更多
文摘A Streetcar Named Desire, which has been widely accepted as the world-renowned work of Tennessee Williams, is a play with both of complexity and charm. After its publication, this play has attracted a lot of scholars and critics to interpret and study on it from the different aspects of views. The present paper attempts to certificate that the main character Blanche, in this play, who is live in a social background with the highlights of the conflict between the American southern plantation culture and the northern industrial civilization, suffers from the consistent change of her living space, her original world continually encounters destruction and invasion. Therefore, she has to step into another world; and she has to survive among different world. In addition, through digging into and interpreting the character Blanche, it investigates that people are of suffering and pain when they were in the process of adjusting and adapting themselves from their original world to their present- living world, and all Blanche's roads lead to a tragic.
文摘A Streetcar Named Desire is regarded as one of the most successful masterpieces of Tennessee Williams. An outstanding feature of the play is the wide use of symbolism. Symbols can be seen everywhere and even all the symbols in the play are con nected with the protagonist Blanche DuBois. Williams applies symbolism throughout the play to make Blanche's tragic fate more vivid to the readers. Her tragic fate lies in her clinging to illusion, thus she is bound to be abandoned by the harsh reality. There fore, the thesis attempts to give a comprehensive analysis of some specific symbols: symbols of illusion represented by the Chinese paper lantern and a paper moon, and symbol of reality represented by the light to further illustrate Blanche's tragically symbolic fate.
文摘This article explores the fundamental elements which lead to the tragedy of Blanche, the heroine in Streetcar written by Tennessee Williams. In this drama, Williams tells us that we must accept the realistic view towards life, no matter how much we may dislike it, life only provides space for woman who is practical and conscientious, and not for those who are dissolute and live in illusions.
文摘Introduction:Livedoid vasculopathy is a chronic noninflammatory skin disease secondary to hypercoagulable states.No therapeutic guideline has yet been established for livedoid vasculopathy.We herein report a case of livedoid vasculopathy secondary to protein C deficiency that was successfully treated with rivaroxaban.Case presentation:A 31-year-old Thai woman who had been diagnosed with livedoid vasculopathy 10 years previously presented with a 2-month history of worsening leg ulcers and failure to respond to aspirin,colchicine,and pentoxifylline.Further investigations confirmed protein C deficiency.Rivaroxaban was initiated,and clinical improvement was achieved in 8 weeks.Discussion:When livedoid vasculopathy is confirmed by skin biopsy,additional investigations for hypercoagulable states should be performed to exclude secondary causes.Identification of the causes of livedoid vasculopathy can direct physicians to therapeutic options based on previously reported cases of successful treatment.Our patient,whose livedoid vasculopathy was caused by protein C deficiency,responded well to rivaroxaban.Conclusion:Protein C deficiency results in a hypercoagulable state,and affected patients can present with livedoid vasculopathy.The anticoagulant rivaroxaban has been beneficial in the treatment of livedoid vasculopathy.
