A Streetcar Named Desire Essay

A Streetcar Named Desire has often been referred to as an important step in the history of cinema. The film, based on the play of the same name by Tennessee Williams, was a very controversial topic when it was filmed. The film had taboo ideas that were introduced, for example, domestic violence, female sexuality and rape. This essay will focus on the female sexuality aspect, specifically focusing on how societies expectations are influencing sexuality during the filming and how the characters…

In literature flowers often represent beauty and youth. They are used to show how individuals crave their past youth. Throughout A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, the flowers help Blanche mask her aging, loss of purity, and beauty. In A Streetcar Named Desire, the flowers represent how Blanche wants to hold onto her youth. Throughout the play, Blanche tries to keep her youth through the use of flower print dresses. They represent being young and beautiful. Some words associated…

Tennessee Williams captures New Orleans perfectly through his play, “A Streetcar Named Desire.” Imagine walking through the heat of the summer with the Louisiana humidity, the steam of hot baths coming through the kitchen as you are trying to cool down in a two bedroom apartment, the loud sound of the downtown streets breaking through the windows, or even the spiral staircase that portrays the ionic “Stella!” scene. I never understood the truth of this play, until I was walking through New…

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…

Women on the other hand, have been portrayed as weak and timid. As a result, many of women 's rights in the late 1940 's, early 1950 's have been hampered by men and political leaders. Famous author, Tennessee Williams, wrote the play A Streetcar Named Desire during that time period. Corresponding to the time period, one of the main themes of the play is the role of genders. The two main female characters, sisters Stella Kowalski and Blanche DuBois, are inferior to Stanley Kowalski…

A Streetcar Named Desire is an allusion to the death of the “Old South.” Blanche DuBois, a woman raised on a southern plantation, creates this allusion. Blanche is the epitome of the Old South by being a school teacher, wanting to depend on a man, and trying to stay prim and proper all of the time. Her job as a school teacher puts her in the position of working with children, as seen in the Old South. She wants to depend on a man, like Mitch, because she believes he will take care of her.…

One theme that constantly appears in A Streetcar Named Desire is a contrast between the reality and fantasy of love. This dichotomy is represented by Blanche and her grasp on life. Blanche attempts to supplement the hard times in her life by creating fantasies where everything is going her way. While playing cards with Stanley, she states, “I know I fib a good deal. After all, a woman's charm is fifty percent illusion” (WIlliams 36), proving that she likes to fabricate the world around her. When…

In many ways, the past has an important effect on the present. In a Streetcar Named Desire, the story depicts the story of a woman coming to live with her sister and her husband. Within the story, the past lurks throughout the story, haunting the character’s present. Blanche is a mentally unstable woman who was forced to flee her home when all her relatives passed away. Stella reluctantly allows Blanche to live with them, and during the course of her stay, Blanche brings the past into their home…

A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams, tells the story of Stella and Stanley Kowalski and the dramatic turmoil that overtakes their relationship upon the arrival of Stella’s sister Blanche DuBois. In the first half of the play, Williams introduces both the setting and the primary characters almost immediately using vivid imagery, appealing to both the visual and olfactory senses of his readers; “"You can almost feel the warm breath of the brown river beyond the river…

A Streetcar Named Desire starts with Blanche arriving at her sisters, Stella’s apartment in New Orleans. She had arrived with all her belongs and some bad news. She had lost the Belle Reve, which was their families’ mansion. When Stanley and Blanche meet, it’s an automatic unsettling relationship between the two. Stanley thinks that she cheated Stella with the share of Bella Reve. Their relationship gets worse when Stanley gets too drunk while playing poker and beats Stella. This same night,…