To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future-Daisaku Ikeda. The influence of history greatly affect literature and how we view it compared to other times. By using the historical/topical theory we bring to light how the major issues, circumstances that produced it, and main aspect of the book were influenced by the time period it was wrote in.
The major issue in “a streetcar named desire” is the idea of sexuality. Sexuality is defined as being a person’s sexual orientation or preference. In this book we see two different types of sexuality number one is between Stella and Stanley and number two between Blanche and Allan. Stella and Stanley have a very complex and mixed up life. The story is set in the 1940’s. This was …show more content…
One of these was the fact that Williams was a homosexual. I see this book as a way of Tennessee expressing himself and that fact that he was homosexual. In the time period he lived gays were frowned upon and not warmly welcome. I see this book as his way to explore his own sexuality because he couldn 't actually do it in real life so he did it in his head. The fact that williams was living in the historical period of the 40’s influenced his reason for writing this book. If he was born in later then he would of been able to go out and physically explore his sexuality whereas he could not in the …show more content…
Because this book was wrote in the 1940’s William was able to fully explore sexuality without having to worry about running into the bounds that modern sociey has like abuse, homosexuality, pedifila and femisim. Without writing in the time period Williams did “ A Streetcar Named Desire” would never of been the book it
The major issue in “a streetcar named desire” is the idea of sexuality. Sexuality is defined as being a person’s sexual orientation or preference. In this book we see two different types of sexuality number one is between Stella and Stanley and number two between Blanche and Allan. Stella and Stanley have a very complex and mixed up life. The story is set in the 1940’s. This was …show more content…
One of these was the fact that Williams was a homosexual. I see this book as a way of Tennessee expressing himself and that fact that he was homosexual. In the time period he lived gays were frowned upon and not warmly welcome. I see this book as his way to explore his own sexuality because he couldn 't actually do it in real life so he did it in his head. The fact that williams was living in the historical period of the 40’s influenced his reason for writing this book. If he was born in later then he would of been able to go out and physically explore his sexuality whereas he could not in the …show more content…
Because this book was wrote in the 1940’s William was able to fully explore sexuality without having to worry about running into the bounds that modern sociey has like abuse, homosexuality, pedifila and femisim. Without writing in the time period Williams did “ A Streetcar Named Desire” would never of been the book it