Desire

In Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire animal imagery is displayed throughout the play within many characters. As many different factors and symbols Animal imagery pertaining to Stanley can be seen in the play when Blanche describes Stanley expressing “He acts like an animal, has an animal’s habits! Eats like one, moves like one, talks like one! There’s something – sub-human – something not quite the stage of humanity yet! Yes, something – ape-like about him, like one of those…

The emotional reaction or attachment toward Blanche can be justified by the treatment Blanche receives in the play. Many readers and viewers sympathize more with her because she is a woman. Any harsh treatment of a woman cannot be justified as being something that she deserves spites their past. The harsh treatment for Blanche would be the betrayal of her sister’s husband trust, and him violently forcing himself onto her. Blanche is looking for love and wanting someone to love her since losing…

A Street Car Name Desire compared to The Night of the Iguana After studying A Streetcar Named Desire and The Night of the Iguana it is clear that Tennessee Williams seems to follow a central theme surrounding the topic of sexual desire in his plays. The theme of sexual desire is perhaps the most obvious existence in both of the plays. To start off with, A Streetcar Named Desire is about a girl named Blanche Dubois. Blanche goes to New Orleans to visit her pregnant sister, Stella. Another…

In A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams in 1947, Stella Kowalski has to make a critical decision. During the entire show Blanche DuBois is staying with her sister, Stella. While she is there Blanche becomes more and more deranged, and as the show continues Blanche lies about her life and how she came to stay with her sister. Due to Blanche Dubois’ daft mannerisms, she should be sent to a mental institution. Blanche begins the show lying. She tells Stella how she was on leave…

Tennessee Williams, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” reflects reality as the jealousy between siblings affects their relationship. Everyone who grew up with a brother or sister understands how competitive it can be to the ascendant child. Whether it’s having better grades in school or the better life, an argument will arise. Furthermore, the sisters of A Streetcar Named Desire portray the actuality between siblings offset. When Blanche arrives to visit her sister Stella and her husband Stanley for…

Where there is an appetite for desire, there is an appetite for disaster. Well-known American playwright, Tennessee Williams, in his iconic play, A Streetcar Named Desire, eloquently illustrates the life of Blanche DuBois, an impecunious woman that has moved to New Orleans and is now living with her sister Stella and her sister’s husband Stanley, after being evicted from her ancestral home in Laurel, Mississippi. Stanley is a catalyst in Blanche’s fall from reality, as he makes it his mission to…

While reading the play Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, I fell in love with the story Williams created. I was completely sucked into the story that I fell in love with when I watched the movie directed by Elia Kazan and produced by Charles Feldman. The movie stuck to the script for the most part because Tennessee Williams was also the screenwriter for the movie. The movie starts off with music (directed by Alex North) that gets the audience into the feel of New Orleans in the…

The play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams is a play about social realism. Stella is living a fantasy life because she is reluctant to accept the truth of her and Stanley’s relationship. The realism of their relationship occurs when she says “I couldn’t go on believing her story and live with Stanley” (Stella, 1232). This demonstrates that if Stella believes her sister it would destroy her seamless illusion of her and Stanley’s ideal relationship. Stellas sees nothing wrong with…

compared to other times. By using the historical/topical theory we bring to light how the major issues, circumstances that produced it, and main aspect of the book were influenced by the time period it was wrote in. The major issue in “a streetcar named desire” is the idea of sexuality. Sexuality is defined as being a person’s sexual orientation or preference. In this book we see two different types of sexuality number one is between Stella and Stanley and number two between Blanche and Allan.…

Progressive Perspective on A Streetcar Named Desire As it relates to the meanings of plays time, place and atmosphere are critical to conveying the playwright’s perspective on a particular topic. The particular topic that is focused on in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is modern progressivism. This was a particularly edgy topic to speak on especially for the time period coming out of World War II. Tennessee Williams utilizes three key elements of time, place, and atmosphere to…