Desire

In A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams makes it so the notions of brutal desire and death dance together in a vicious waltz around Blanche DuBois, the tragic main character of the play. The pair constantly haunts her from the moment she arrives in Elysian Fields in the form of two streetcars, Desire and Cemeteries, representing her inevitable downfall that stems from her unyielding wishes for intimacy and to fit into society, both created from terrible past experiences. Blanche’s…

When A Streetcar Named Desire came out in 1946, America had just emerged from World War II after battling the Great Depression throughout the 1930’s. Whilst the conclusion of World War II proved the nations superiority and power to the world after squashing the threat of Nazi Germany, the success cost the country millions of lives. However, America’s ability to leave Germany powerless to the hands of the nation and the other Allied forces meant that the remaining middle and lower class soldiers…

Character Analysis – A Streetcar Named Desire A Streetcar Named Desire is one of the classic tragedy play that was written by Tennessee Williams. This glorious play investigates numerous important topics and issues. The fundamental repeating subject Williams investigates to the audience is the conflict between of imagination and reality, trustworthiness and falsehoods. However, sexuality, brutality, and social contrasts likewise shape the activity of the plot, in which they add to the impact…

Jezebel (1938) and A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) are both films that are adapted from plays and set in New Orleans, Louisiana. Although the two works are depicting different periods in history, they explore similar conflicts and themes. Jezebel and A Streetcar Named Desire both demonstrate that females are the inferior gender. Both films exhibit a female leading character, Julie Marsden and Blanche DuBois, portrayed by Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, respectfully. Because females do not enjoy…

In 1971, Elia Kazan told Movie magazine regarding the process of adapting Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, that: “I took the script of the play, and I just made the play. And that’s all I did.” Discuss whether the adaptation was as simple as Kazan makes it seem through a careful analysis of both the play and film of A Streetcar Named Desire. Adapting a text to film is a difficult task for any screenwriter. There are many challenges that must be overcome, including limitations…

seen as being this delicate and proper and set in her southern belle ways. She is fragile and yet condescending. The aging Southern belle, whose desires have cause her hardship. She claims that she has “old-fashioned” morals but has been promiscuous. Stella is motivated by her desire to please her husband, Stanley, and Blanche is motivated by desire to belong and be loved. However, Blanche…

much one person can change your whole routine, your whole life. The relationships are solid in the beginning have problems towards the end of the play. There are exciting moments and there are moments when you get frustrated. In “A Streetcar Named Desire” Tennessee Williams demonstrates real life conflicts and relationships through two sisters, a new marriage, and different friendships. Stella and Blanche are sisters from Bella Reve in Mississippi. Stella moved away to New Orleans and got…

The play A Streetcar Named Desire explores brutality vs. tenderness displayed through the personalities of Stanley Kowalski and Blanche DuBois. Marlon Brando's charismatic portrayal of Stanley Kowalski in Elia Kazan's film version of A Streetcar Named Desire undermines the validity of Blanche's struggle. The contrast between Vivien Leigh's Blanche and Brando's Stanley emphasizes the most negative aspects of Blanche's character while supporting and validating the most positive of Stanley's,…

Tennessee Williams in his play A Streetcar Named Desire explores the natural state of man and his primitive desires and actions. Through his characters, Stanley and Blanche, he shows how the two sides of man’s natural state. William’s goal is shown in the 1951 production of the play starring Marlon Brando and Vivian Leigh. In this production the play is acted out in a way that allows all audiences to grasp the underlying theme while remaining entertaining and engaging to the audience. The…

People often have a certain perspective on another individual based on a certain persona or act one puts on to have a reputation. In "A Streetcar Named Desire" two characters Blanch and Stanley both feel that they have a very specific image to up hold in order to be respected by the other characters in the book. people often have excperinces that shape there future weather it be for the better or worse it could even cause someone to creat an alterante image of themselves just to appeare…