Reality can be a tricky thing. We can get lost in our fake worlds that we began to believe they are real like Blanche in “A Streetcar Named Desire”. But literature can have a big influence on this. I think that literature can contribute to us being able to see things different by the way the show us real life situations. “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennesses Williams Blanche DuBois lives in a world of created fantasy in her mind. The theme of the play goes off of how she can never really distinguish her fantasy life from the reality of her life. She lives in a made-up world so that she does not have to deal with her fears. Blanche’s obsessive habits such as alcoholism, delusions, and her twisted views of her world in the form of illusions, create such a fake world to protect her from reality and get her way.
First things first I think that it is important for us to look and remember the time when this was written. So that we can stay in context. This was a time when women still did not have really any rights. And they could not handle certain situations like we could today, and they still did …show more content…
We see through the play how she does certain things to hide and change how people see her so that she can avoid them finding the truth out about her. In the play she always tries to wear a white dress to seem innocent to other and she tries her best not to go into the light. Once again in scene six with mitch instead of turning on a light she chooses to light a candle. And when she is called on it she tries her best to keep them in the dark. We see that in scene nine when Mitch breaks her illusion by saying “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you in the light [Blanche laughs breathlessly] That’s a fact!” Blanche then tries to play it off on him by saying “Who’s fault is that?” And we know that she is doing that on purpose to keep her image up and keep people in the
First things first I think that it is important for us to look and remember the time when this was written. So that we can stay in context. This was a time when women still did not have really any rights. And they could not handle certain situations like we could today, and they still did …show more content…
We see through the play how she does certain things to hide and change how people see her so that she can avoid them finding the truth out about her. In the play she always tries to wear a white dress to seem innocent to other and she tries her best not to go into the light. Once again in scene six with mitch instead of turning on a light she chooses to light a candle. And when she is called on it she tries her best to keep them in the dark. We see that in scene nine when Mitch breaks her illusion by saying “I don’t think I’ve ever seen you in the light [Blanche laughs breathlessly] That’s a fact!” Blanche then tries to play it off on him by saying “Who’s fault is that?” And we know that she is doing that on purpose to keep her image up and keep people in the