Desire

In Tennessee Williams book, “A Street Car Named Desire”, he uses a variety of techniques of stagecraft such as costume, lighting, and music. Throughout the play he uses very dramatic ways to describe what is going on between the characters and background. He describes what the characters characteristics are like and what their personalities seem to be. He uses italics in the book to show the emphasis of the lighting, music, and how the character looks. One of the main examples for lighting is…

On Thursday, December 10th at 7:30pm, a friend and I saw the play A Streetcar Named Desire. This play too place at the UW-La Crosse Center for the Arts and Tennessee Williams created this romantic drama production. The plot of this story takes place in a 1940’s New Orleans setting, in a run down old duplex where actors, Stanley and Stella Kowalski live. The house is really run down and looks as if it is falling apart, however I quite enjoyed the scene. I especially liked how the furniture,…

In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire,” we are introduced with three important men that have made an impact on the other characters around them; Stanley, Mitch, and Allan. Stanley is the most masculine of all of them and Mitch is more of a gentleman while Allan the most submissive of them all has been portrayed as weak and is also hinted as a homosexual. Throughout the play Stanley has been depicted as a macho man, someone that is on the top compared to the other male characters, but is also…

Why is the beginning of scene eleven of Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire" significant? The beginning of scene eleven is one of the most significant passages in Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire". In the aftermath of Blanche's rape, the audience is unsure what repercussions Blanche and Stanley may face and how the other characters will respond. In his final portrayal of Blanche, Williams creates sympathy for his fallen heroine and explores some of the play's key themes,…

What Happened to Stella? : An Analysis Though A Streetcar Named Desire is primarily about Blanche DuBois and her decline into hysteria, Stella Dubois remains a key player in the story; she is a connector of sorts, prompting events to take place. She is Blanche’s sister and Stanley’s wife, connecting them together, for without her they would have never met. Stella is having the baby and it is Stella who eventually sends Blanche away. Stella may not be the prominent character throughout the play,…

Tennessee Williams, the play writer of a Streetcar Named Desire based a lot of his content on his own personal experiences and how he was feeling at the time during his life. Williams wrote the play, as a child he was very introverted towards the end of his teenage years, when he discovered writing it was a form of expression to him. Which is why A Streetcar Named Desire for him was simply “everything I had to say”. This play covers massive social issues like domestic and verbal abuse, rape,…

Blanche arrives in New Orleans after having lost her family's tobacco plantation, with nothing but a trunk of clothes and her sexual desire to call her own. When first arriving in New Orleans, her sister's husband Stanley attempts to treat Blanche as any gentleman would, however Blanche refuses to ablige by his rules, and as the plot of the play continues Stanley starts to take any power that Blanche has left, until she is empty of any and has become completely marginalized. Stanley contributes…

The Intricate Women of Streetcar Named Desire Although “A Streetcar Named Desire” could have been composed of stereotypes for characters, I consider Tennessee Williams to have written various complex characters. I do believe that Stella and Blanche are multidimensional characters. In my opinion Stella and Blanche each have their flaws and strengths, beyond the stereotype society would give them as the abused girlfriend and the promiscuous drunk. I believe the way they interact with others and…

Most people consider themselves pretty ordinary, fairly normal, and maybe even a little common. Stanley Kowalski, from Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire, certainly considers himself common, a fact he is both proud and ashamed of. He lives in a rougher city, where love is not always well understood. When his wife’s sister, Blanche, lives in his house for a while, Stanley is outraged and wants her gone, as she is everything he is not. Throughout the play, Stanley seems to dominate the…

is defined as a callous indifference to or pleasure in causing pain and suffering. There are many reasons why people dish out cruel words and none of us can say we are completely innocent of doing so. In Tennessee Williams's play A Streetcar Named Desire there is, once again, no denying the acts of cruelty allotted through the scenes. In the play both Blanche Dubois and Stanley Kowalski commit acts of unforgivable cruelty, but Stanley is by far more cruel over all. Blanche’s cruelty towards…