Shadow is the part that people want to hide and deny. It is also the dark side that we cannot accept and face. It is often hidden in the subconscious so that sometimes they forgot the shadow or unable it detects its existence. However, it brings a significant impact by surrounding in people thought every day and dominated one's life. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams depicts Blanche DuBois as someone who relies on a phony world of dreaming and imagination in order to find a good distraction from the cruel reality of life, revealing that it is human nature to avoid negativity and conflict in life. Everyone has a shadow, whether people aware it or not, it remains inside the conscious. Robert
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The idea of shadow performed in the life of Blanche when she left to support the decline of the family business alone and resulting in long-term psychological pressure. She was obliged to seek refuge from her sister, but when they finally met, Blanche exposed her struggle and frustration to her sister,” you left! I stayed and struggled…all the burden descended on my shoulders. I took the blows in my face and my body! All of those deaths! The long parade to the graveyard” (Tennessee 21). The death of family member, losing her family property, and rotten musty everywhere under the eaves. These ghastly memories and desperate situation become the shadows continuing to intrude her; thus she desperately wished to fling herself back into the glorious old days by put on the gorgeous costumes and makeup to conceal the lost and shadow. She lusted for glitz and glamour that was driving her apart from the world so she drunk to avoid the reality. Its patrician dignity was a picturesque sham as if she puffed in an old cage like a canary only live for the sake of remaining alive. When her sister …show more content…
This was the main core idea of A Streetcar Named Desire, which seemed to tell that the ultimate fate of a person would gradually fade out to a tragic ending from the glorious and resplendent day because of trapping in the own shadow. Moreover, a shadow was not so easy to yield because when the mask is too strong to suppress the shadow, it would become the darkest side of oneself, and eventually turn the person into a point of collapse. Any strong emotions can become a trigger of the appearance of shadow, such as anger, depression, love. Alcohol, drugs and other substances that reduce self-control, but promote the self-emerge of shadow. According to Mattoon Mary Ann, the author of the book Jung and the Human Psyche: An Understandable Introduction, “the shadow is not always ominous but it is omnipresent. It consists of psychic contents that a person prefers not to show or even to acknowledge. They are the parts of oneself that one considers unpresentable because
The idea of shadow performed in the life of Blanche when she left to support the decline of the family business alone and resulting in long-term psychological pressure. She was obliged to seek refuge from her sister, but when they finally met, Blanche exposed her struggle and frustration to her sister,” you left! I stayed and struggled…all the burden descended on my shoulders. I took the blows in my face and my body! All of those deaths! The long parade to the graveyard” (Tennessee 21). The death of family member, losing her family property, and rotten musty everywhere under the eaves. These ghastly memories and desperate situation become the shadows continuing to intrude her; thus she desperately wished to fling herself back into the glorious old days by put on the gorgeous costumes and makeup to conceal the lost and shadow. She lusted for glitz and glamour that was driving her apart from the world so she drunk to avoid the reality. Its patrician dignity was a picturesque sham as if she puffed in an old cage like a canary only live for the sake of remaining alive. When her sister …show more content…
This was the main core idea of A Streetcar Named Desire, which seemed to tell that the ultimate fate of a person would gradually fade out to a tragic ending from the glorious and resplendent day because of trapping in the own shadow. Moreover, a shadow was not so easy to yield because when the mask is too strong to suppress the shadow, it would become the darkest side of oneself, and eventually turn the person into a point of collapse. Any strong emotions can become a trigger of the appearance of shadow, such as anger, depression, love. Alcohol, drugs and other substances that reduce self-control, but promote the self-emerge of shadow. According to Mattoon Mary Ann, the author of the book Jung and the Human Psyche: An Understandable Introduction, “the shadow is not always ominous but it is omnipresent. It consists of psychic contents that a person prefers not to show or even to acknowledge. They are the parts of oneself that one considers unpresentable because