Hysteria In A Streetcar Named Desire

At times when individuals become wrecked by reality, they tend to cast astray from realism and begin to survive within the depths of delusions and illusions. And so because of their choices to elude from the harsh reality, they lose themselves among waves of self-oppression and in the course of time suffer from differentiating what is reality and deception. An individual who fled from her cruel past and the reality that substantially made her the epitome of psychological hysteria is Blanche Dubois; the protagonist of the Southern Gothic novel, A Streetcar Named Desire, composed by Tennessee Williams. It focuses on her recurring psychotic meltdowns as she suffers from the graveyard of her former self. She is an ocean and the sea who becomes …show more content…
By asking him to sleep with her in French proves that she vitally feels the need to show her belief of still being a part of a higher class and that she enjoys believing she has her sanity under control. But, Blanche Dubois declines to accept that she is incompetent and to see the inutile and detrimental patterns of blindness and desire. She fails to make peace with her past, yet continues to search for a light brighter than the kitchen candle, and so, resorts to her Achilles’ heel: “I had many intimacies with strangers. After the death of Allan-intimacies with strangers was all I seemed able to fill my empty heart with” (146). Thus, her motivations to be a Southern Belle fails and then, her sexual desire camouflages that she cannot make sense of the loss of Allan, Belle Reve, and of her ideal; hence, forevermore pulling her back into a pattern of doom. Hysterically in quest of a safe haven, she looks to fantasies.Taking a retreat in amenities and the illusion that she is quite sane, she seeks relief and the distorted belief of happiness in a wonderland of her