Desire Blinds
“A Street Car Named Desire” Written by Tennessee Williams, invokes many contrasting emotions within the main character Blanche Dubois, which leads to defense mechanisms that portray her character in a delusional way since she was influenced by society Blanche mixed her own motives and emotions creating a double personality between two worlds: one that has left her shame and deep scars from a past that chases after her constantly; and the one she wishes to create in order for her to be able reconstruct her life. These motivating factors and the lack of her stability are primarily the outcome of love and affection regarding her own lust for desire: which she eagerly longs for, but is too frightened accept and receive. This leads …show more content…
This new beginning that Blanche decides to start results in a complete disillusionment “she is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and earrings of pearl [….] looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party”(5). Blanche’s fall follow a recurrent pattern that control her actions and the way she is perceived by others. Stella fuels her desire when she decides to lie to Blanche and tells Stanley to “admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful” (31) weather Stella decided to lie to Blanche because she loved her sister or because she felt pity for her; this simple lie affected Blanche emotional state and led her to believe she is a desirable woman “A cultivated woman, a woman of intelligence and breeding can enrich a man’s life – immeasurably! I have those things to offer, and this doesn’t take them away. Physical beauty is passing a transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart – and I have all of those things. […] But I have been foolish - casting my pearls before swine!”
“A Street Car Named Desire” Written by Tennessee Williams, invokes many contrasting emotions within the main character Blanche Dubois, which leads to defense mechanisms that portray her character in a delusional way since she was influenced by society Blanche mixed her own motives and emotions creating a double personality between two worlds: one that has left her shame and deep scars from a past that chases after her constantly; and the one she wishes to create in order for her to be able reconstruct her life. These motivating factors and the lack of her stability are primarily the outcome of love and affection regarding her own lust for desire: which she eagerly longs for, but is too frightened accept and receive. This leads …show more content…
This new beginning that Blanche decides to start results in a complete disillusionment “she is daintily dressed in a white suit with a fluffy bodice, necklace and earrings of pearl [….] looking as if she were arriving at a summer tea or cocktail party”(5). Blanche’s fall follow a recurrent pattern that control her actions and the way she is perceived by others. Stella fuels her desire when she decides to lie to Blanche and tells Stanley to “admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful” (31) weather Stella decided to lie to Blanche because she loved her sister or because she felt pity for her; this simple lie affected Blanche emotional state and led her to believe she is a desirable woman “A cultivated woman, a woman of intelligence and breeding can enrich a man’s life – immeasurably! I have those things to offer, and this doesn’t take them away. Physical beauty is passing a transitory possession. But beauty of the mind and richness of the spirit and tenderness of the heart – and I have all of those things. […] But I have been foolish - casting my pearls before swine!”