A Streetcar Named Desire Essay

No matter one’s age or state, all people have dreams, or illusions. A balance between fantasy and reality can lead to a healthy lifestyle, but too much of one can be chaotic. This is demonstrated in A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams by several characters. Blanche Dubois has lost the family home in Laurel Mississippi, and comes to live with her sister Stella and her husband Stanley Kowalski. Blanche likes to present herself as an elegant and classy lady, but those are just her…

We must learn to deal with reality. If we do not then we might become worse off and hurt ourselves. In “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”, a short story written by Ursula Le Guin, and A Streetcar Named Desire, a play written by Tennessee Williams, the reader is reminded that what we should not ignore reality; sometimes we think that the truth is harsh and we ignore it so that we do not have to deal with it rather than face the reality. By ignoring reality, we can let a problem grow out of hand…

A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams and performed by La Boite Theatre Company, easily engages the audience in their successful attempt to relate to a contemporary audience. The audience followed Blanche DuBois as she tried to stay peacefully with her sister and her husband, Stanley. During her stay, she discovers secrets of domestic violence and pregnancy, and has her own secrets brought up by Stanley, resulting in a bitter end of rape and admittance into a mental institution…

could accept whom we are regardless of the mistakes we have made or the faults we may have, then we could have the power to change ourselves for the better, rather than creating an imaginary perception of oneself to get lost in. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, we watch as Blanche Dubois, the protagonist of the play, spirals downward into a deep darkness due to the haunting memories that she has of her past and through the painful events that…

Streetcar Named Desire Response In A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche rides into town on a streetcar named Desire, this is significance because throughout the entire play one can take that Blanche wants nothing more then the desire to believe that her life is intact, and that everything is ok. Blanche has a dark and secretive past though, and everything about her seams highly exaggerated as she tries to pretend that everything is nice and glorious. Throughout the later part of Blanche’s life she…

Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire seems to be particularly full of provocative themes. Williams builds a complex web of ideas, shedding light on numerous topics that are still relevant in society today. Through Stella, Blanche, Stanley, Mitch, and multiple other characters, he is able to expose the reader to concepts that continue to have growing importance. Whether it be domestic abuse, the power of fantasy, desire and sexuality, or gender roles, A Streetcar Named Desire is full of…

Feminism and gender is a recurring theme in Tennessee William's “A Streetcar Named Desire”. “Streetcar” focuses on many social aspect such as gender stereotypes, gender inequality, and misogyny and how they are implemented in the characters lives. This gender/feminist essay will be discussing how Tennessee Williams implements these ideas into his writing. Gender/Feminist criticism is the form of criticism in literature that focuses on feminism (“the advocacy of women's rights on the grounds of…

The Desire Line ran through the streets of New Orleans from 1920 to 1948, at the height of streetcar use. The car ran down Bourbon, through the Quarter, to Desire street in the Bywater district, and traveled back to Canal. Inspired by a period of unhappiness surrounding his twenty-fourth birthday, and co-workers he knew at the time, Tennessee Williams set out to write what would become A Streetcar Named Desire. Born Thomas Lanier Williams III in 1911 in Columbus, Mississippi, Tennessee Williams…

Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire is the controversial play from Post-World War II America. In the play, the women, Stella, Blanche, and Eunice are victims of the patriarchal society. Stella is abused, physically and verbally, by Stanley, Blanche is ostracized for her promiscuity and then raped by Stanley, and Eunice is complacent and voiceless in the acts. Stanley is portrayed as handsome but is the “stereotypical American male” who believes himself to be above the women and without…

Similarly in A Streetcar Named Desire one of the main characters Blanche Dubois has the same problem with being delusional. She goes and meets her sister Stella and begins to fabricate a story about what has happened to her. She tries to go about finding love by telling Stella, Stanley and countless men lies about her past. When Blanche arrives at Stella’s house she is talking to Stanley and he asks her if…