Belle Reve

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…

The past is seen to haunt our everyday life. In theatre especially, ghosts serve to embody haunting memories and burdens of the characters. In craftful plays such as Hamlet by Shakespeare and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, ghosts symbolize an impediment on the development of the protagonists and the permanent presence of our history. Theatrical presentations on the oppressive effect of the past on the present, these plays portray two tragic heroes and their descent into their…

the symbolic meaning of the spirit of life, is also highlighted again when Blanche was talking to Stella about Belle Reve. Here, the music became louder, which signifies that this spirit of life becomes more intense, especially so given the fact that Blanche starting bringing up “deaths” and “funerals”. The mood evoked here is one of sorrow, despair and desperation after losing Belle…

Blanche and Stanley are completely different characters. For an example, their childhood is totally different. Blanche grew up wealthy on a plantation named Belle Reve. Stanley is Polish and was an officer. At the point when Blanche discovers that Stanley is Polish she really dislike his national. He hits his wife, while pregnant, and Blanche advises Stella to leave, yet Stella returns. Blanche and Stanley are…

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…

element of the ‘typical female’ – wanting to please a male. This can also be seen as Blanche perhaps showing a belief that, because of her gender, she is weaker and inferior to him – an idea that would’ve been emphasized in her home life as a Southern belle. This sense of inferiority is seen again when they’re talking about what a woman would have to do to get in Stanley’s good graces. Blanche implies that in a situation like that, Stanley would have all the power, and would be able to choose…

the ideal norm of the patriarchal ‘breadwinner’ male figure, he does this by asserting violence. It can be argued that Blanche Dubois is a victim of circumstances because she encounters all these tragic situations about death, her job and loss of Belle Reve all at once, her inability to…

This play by Tennessee Williams portrays a woman who is very distraught about her past years and copes with it by her sexuality. She puts her imagination ahead of her real life, eventually finding it very hard to disguise what is real. Blanche, Stella's older sister, A high school English teacher from Laurel, Mississippi arrived in New Orleans a city of despair with an ultimately crumbling figure. Blanche once was married to and passionately in love with a tortured young man. Once Blanche…

As the central character in A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois incorporates many aspects of the themes in the play. It is her arrival that sparks the series of events that alter the lives of the other primary characters. Blanche’s journey towards a breakdown that results in her succumbing to madness starts long before she arrives in the ironically named Elysian Fields. Upon her arrival, we are learn that she is from a world unlike the one she encounters on leaving the streetcar and…

to him. Which proves that Stanley is in control of Stella and their relationship. On top of being in control and abusive to Stella he was also abusive to Blanch. An example of that was When Blanche was explaining that she lost her family’s home Belle Reve and Stanley did not believe her. He kept trying to convince Stella that Blanche was lying by making comments like,“ It looks to me like you have been swindled, baby, and when you’re swindled under the Napoleonic code I’m swindled too. And I…