A Streetcar Named Desire

distress. (The Definition of Tragedy). Both F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, and Tennessee Williams play, A Streetcar Named Desire, contain a character who undergoes a number of tragedies. In The Great Gatsby, main character Jay Gatsby is an extravagant, rich man who works hard for his fortunes and lives in a mansion located in West Egg. In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois comes from wealth and acts very prim and proper to deflect from the misfortunes her life entails. Jay…

theme that these three all display fit collectively under the category that is violence. Verbal abuse leaves lasting emotional scars that often cause more damage than any other form of violence. Stanley Kowalski, the antagonist in the play A Streetcar Named Desire, is an absolute vulgar working class brute who because of his strength and ferocity feels he can do and say anything he wants to his wife Stella. Stella’s sister Blanche Dubois moves in which causes a great amount of tension in their…

A play’s setting allows the author to bring out many issues facing society, especially related to the social stratification decided by people’s lifestyles. In the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche Dubois is a school teacher who moves in with her sister and husband in New Orleans. It is clear that Blanche has fallen through hard times, but she cannot leave her social status attitude when she moves to this working class neighborhood. Her solution is to develop a drinking habit while rooting…

a person’s name can say a lot about them. Whether it be Tea Cake Woods in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, Jay Gatsby (aka James Gatz) in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, or Blanche Dubois in Tennessee William 's A Streetcar Named Desire,character names seem to deliver eerie reminders of their nature. These parallels of name and nature help promote these character’s motifs as their names are repeated throughout their respective novels. Tea Cake Woods’ from Their Eyes…

Color makes life worth living for by the expressions found within it. In "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams it is presented the idea of the colors red and white are used by the characters, Stella and Blanche to reflect their states of mind that were greatly influenced by their unstable upbringing. The color red can be described as impure, dangerous, or promiscuous and this color is depicted with Blanche as a sign of her desecrated mentality due to a terrible home life as she…

works have often come under criticism from audiences and critics alike as they often challenge commonly held societal beliefs that support the perception of how a ‘proper’ society should function. A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen in 1879 and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams in 1947 are two examples of two such literary works written by playwrights which successfully challenged and alienated the audience by revealing our facades, societal roles and preconceptions which stifle self…

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Chosen Quote Respond and Analyze “After all, a woman’s charm is fifty percent illusion” This quote goes back to the idea of Blanche Dubois being stuck in a fantasy world and how she has the need to be desired. She says this Eugene. The journey that Blanche described when she is in the streetcar. It is clear that Williams used goes into a deeper meaning that with research I was able to interpret. Going back to research the name of Stanley…

The 1940s play written by Tennessee Williams A Streetcar Named Desire, highlights the issue of domestic violence within society. Literary critics at that time it was published often overlooked the violence. Modern critics, however, try to understand where the interpretations went wrong and how the characters are representation of society’s fatal flaw. Susan Koprince, a modern critic, extensively analyzes the importance of the characterization of Stanley and Stella Kowalski, stressing why their…

Comparing the two characters from the novel The Awakening and the play A Streetcar Named Desire, Edna Pontellier and Blanche Dubois, there are clearly inherent differences between the two. Some differences being: Edna being an artist and Blanche being a teacher, Edna having two children and Blanche having none, Edna being a married women and Blanche being a widow. But, despite the differences the between the two characters there are also many similarities. The three most important similarities…

society of the time period. The two famous pieces from the Norton anthology of American literature are The Yellow Wallpaper and A Streetcar Named Desire, these both writings create anger toward men and sympathy toward women and emphasized on the gender roles in two different time periods. For decades’ men were dominant in every aspect of life, neglecting women needs and desires they did whatever was suitable for them. Men’s job was to provide the bread for the family and women’s job was staying…