Illusion, a deceptive appearance or impression, is an idealistic escape from reality, the state of things as they actually exist. Ultimately, finding the correct balance between the two is crucial to surviving this barbarous world. Connection in a disconnected world drives people to steadily move forward in their lives. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Blanche DuBois desperately yearns for this connection but fails to find it. Her isolation will become her ultimate defeat in the aggressive, merciless world she simply is not fit for. In Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois’s failed search for connection illustrates the crucial balance between illusion and reality necessary to survive in a
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A Streetcar Named Desire reveals the soul’s journey to connect with another soul. The soul wishes for good but is incapable of attaining it (Quirino 69). When Blanche transferred from a streetcar named desire to a streetcar called cemeteries, her moth-soul finds the broken Darwinian environment. Blanche looks to Stella, her sister, and Stanley Kowalski for ideal love, but finds that similarly, their relationship is not perfect. Knowing that her sister is desperately looking for approval, Stella tells Stanley, “Admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful. That’s important with Blanche. Her little weakness! (Williams 31). Everyone around Blanche starts to proliferate her self-delusion because they know she thrives on it. In an analysis, Quirino writes, “Ironically and tragically, her preference for soulful illusion and for magic over actuality paves the way for her voyage to the mad house” (Quirino 70). Her constant will to cover bare light bulbs is a symbol of her trapped soul. Blanche hides her fragility by rushing around like a moth, but is never truly able to stop the massive force of reality that will end up destroying …show more content…
Ultimately, Blanche DuBois is unable to find the proper balance between her idealistic, youthful perspective of the world and the cold, hard reality she is forced to accept. She faces isolation after reaching out to make failed connections. Blanche turns out to be not fit enough for the survival-of-the-fittest town dominated by Stanley Kowalski. As distinguished by biologists such as Charles Darwin himself, it is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to
A Streetcar Named Desire reveals the soul’s journey to connect with another soul. The soul wishes for good but is incapable of attaining it (Quirino 69). When Blanche transferred from a streetcar named desire to a streetcar called cemeteries, her moth-soul finds the broken Darwinian environment. Blanche looks to Stella, her sister, and Stanley Kowalski for ideal love, but finds that similarly, their relationship is not perfect. Knowing that her sister is desperately looking for approval, Stella tells Stanley, “Admire her dress and tell her she’s looking wonderful. That’s important with Blanche. Her little weakness! (Williams 31). Everyone around Blanche starts to proliferate her self-delusion because they know she thrives on it. In an analysis, Quirino writes, “Ironically and tragically, her preference for soulful illusion and for magic over actuality paves the way for her voyage to the mad house” (Quirino 70). Her constant will to cover bare light bulbs is a symbol of her trapped soul. Blanche hides her fragility by rushing around like a moth, but is never truly able to stop the massive force of reality that will end up destroying …show more content…
Ultimately, Blanche DuBois is unable to find the proper balance between her idealistic, youthful perspective of the world and the cold, hard reality she is forced to accept. She faces isolation after reaching out to make failed connections. Blanche turns out to be not fit enough for the survival-of-the-fittest town dominated by Stanley Kowalski. As distinguished by biologists such as Charles Darwin himself, it is not the strongest species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to