A Streetcar Named Desire

Both A Streetcar Named Desire and A Taste of Honey include characters who are victims of their sexuality. These two texts were written in 1947 and 1958 respectively, and this period of time showed a specific attitude towards homosexuality: Homosexuals were treated with constant disrespect and homosexuality was also classed as a mental disorder. These views were also evident towards women who engaged in sexual relations outside of marriage. The negative attitudes towards characters such as…

an innate desire to do well in every facet of their lives. It is not uncommon for unreasonable expectations to be cast on people, and it is these unreasonable expectations that force people to develop strategies for coping with these pressures and tensions (Billington 2016). We seek out habits that are unhealthy in order to supersede the unfortunate reality bestowed on us, in the hopes that they will rid of the suffering we experience. Williams’s notable works A Streetcar Named Desire and The…

Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire and Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House are both similar and different in many ways. They both have strong plot, theme, characters, and symbols. They are great works of great authors. The plot in these plays are similar in that they both end with a renewal. A Streetcar Named Desire ends with Blanche going off to a mental hospital. The true Blanche dies in the end of the play. The ending of A Doll’s House is Nora leaving her husband Torvald. He does not…

In the film, whatever happened to baby Jane, Jane went insane not only because she took care of her sister for such a long period of time, but because she was unable to follow her dreams. Since Jane was so preoccupied taking care of Blanche, she was not able to continue her acting career, which made her into a bitter alcoholic. It drove her mad knowing everything she has done for her sister had been for nothing because Blanche did not even appreciate all the years of Jane devoting her life to…

and thinks that she sold it and doesn’t want Stella to have any part of the heritance. However, Blanche is horrified by this conclusion and decides to challenge Stanley by presenting him with her box of papers. In this excerpt from A Street Car Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, the author uses diction, symbolism, and figurative language to reveal the themes of male dominance and develop friction between the Blanche and Stanley for the rest of the play. In scene two, the play portrays the…

clothing and run free in the pleasure of it. Passion had broken the chains her current environment had placed upon her, chains that held all the others firmly in their safe little place. As she rode off into the horizon making love to the man of her desire, using the rhythmic gallop of the horse as a sensual metronome, those who viewed this event witnessed the power of…

During Laura’s trip to the market, she did not have money to buy the fruit, instead she exchanged a lock of her hair for it. Laura was eager and did not have much self-control over her actions at the time. She was drawn to the fruit and the goblin men. Her experience is depicted as pleasant and compelling. For example: “(the fruit) ..sweeter than honey from the rock, stronger than man-rejoicing wine, clearer than water flow’d that juice; she never tasted such before..” When Laura was eating the…

While there are several similarities between The Awakening and A Streetcar Named Desire, but there are also many differences. The Awakening is a novel and A Streetcar Named Desire is a play. In novels, the reader is given much more information about the characters, such as their thoughts, beliefs, and desires. On the other hand, plays are mostly dialogue, which becomes the reader’s primary source of information; there is no way for the reader to know what goes on in the characters’ heads.…

Personal fulfillment can not be attributed to genes and is not stagnant, constantly evolving with the human race and the advancement of individuals in their desire to unearth the part of themselves that society has buried. Every individual is destined for something different, knit together for a unique purpose. All dealt our own deck of cards, it is up to every individual to decide whether they will fold or continue to play the game. Woven into a variety of stories, clues on how to to obtain…

Swift however, does not intend us to emulate either Yahoo or Houyhnhnm behavior, but rather to take the positive aspects which each portray, and dilute them into a compromise that befits the healthy functioning of a human being. Williams agrees that Swift is creating a novel whose moral is to say, “Passions and affections, carefully guided, are treated as necessary in creatures who are imperfect and interdependent” (Williams 286), and likewise the “Houyhnhnms, far from being a model of…