Tennessee Williams

The Fading Light The play A Streetcar Named Desire written by playwright Tennessee Williams intertwines with the life of Blanche DuBois. The main theme of the dramatic play mostly concerns that of Blanche, and the upmost tragedy. Blanche is seen as a woman stuck in a tragedy and living two identities between two different worlds. Blanche is feigning between the two very different worlds, the one of the past, and the present. She is a lonely and frightened soul, who consoles her life around…

particular social class, normally by economic bracket, into groups of varying worth and dispensability. Those who place themselves on top through classism thrive while those under them suffer for it. A Streetcar Named Desire, a play by playwright Tennessee Williams holds a great example of how dangerous and hurtful classism can be. A Streetcar Named Desire is a play about Blanche Dubois, moving in with her poorer sister after losing the family home to debt. Blanche, being of the upper class, is…

Have there been that one or two people that affected your life in one way or another, and do you remember that story in your life? Well “The Glass Menagerie” written by Tennessee Williams in 1944 is a tale with many stories that are ties by family. The setting is the key to each one. The characters are also each independently living in a tale of their own even thought they are related. The time period is also a key to the story in the play. This is one of the most telling illusions that is being…

The characters in Tennessee Williams’ play The Glass Menagerie all have a delusional state of mind, shown by the inner psychology when read with a psychoanalytical approach. The play is written in the style of expressionistic. In the first sentence of the Production Notes it says “it is a memory play.” “Memory play” suggests that it is a play worked out in one’s mental process, rather than a real life representation. Instead of external reality, the idea becomes the primary concern of…

Tennessee William’s play “The Glass Menagerie” gives readers a look into the everyday strife of the dysfunctional Wingfield family. At first glance, it seems that their lives are quite abnormal, but Amanda’s “impulse to preserve her single parent family seems as familiar as the morning newspaper” (Presley 53). In reality, the Wingfields are the archetypal family doing whatever it takes to get by. The Wingfields complications, however, arise from their inability to properly converse with each…

Tennessee Williams, renowned play write, showed a pattern of portraying the trials of life in his characters, as well as an innate desire to do well in every facet of their lives. It is not uncommon for unreasonable expectations to be cast on people, and it is these unreasonable expectations that force people to develop strategies for coping with these pressures and tensions (Billington 2016). We seek out habits that are unhealthy in order to supersede the unfortunate reality bestowed on us, in…

Two Souths Equally Flawed Tennessee William’s “A Streetcar Named Desire” is a story that takes place in New Orleans following the Civil War. It consists of a character named Blanche who represents the old south trying to fit into the new. The film “Unfinished Nation” talks about how the old south became known as the antebellum period during the 19th century. The film also talks about how, the social and economic life of the wealthy was very privileged and held unrealistic ideals in their world…

explained by physics, a common automobile tire can easily burst under high pressure when it is overinflated. This idea is also presented in the literature. Particularly, three dramas--Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams and A Doll House by Henrik Ibsen--address the theme that excessive suppression of human nature will eventually lead to the extreme explosion, normally accomplished by a departure from a stifling environment to their dreams. The power…

A World of Unachievable Expectations In the Glass Menagerie written by Tennessee Williams, Amanda, the mother of Tom and Laura proves herself to be a loving mother but in her love, she remains blind to the damage she is inflicting upon her children. She fails to raise her children to her vision. And her manipulation of her son causes him to run away while her attempts to assimilate her daughter into society cause her to become increasingly isolated. Tom and Laura both suffer emotionally at the…

The Glass Menagerie, a play by Tennessee Williams, is a memory play set in St. Louis in 1937 just at the start of the Great Depression in America. The Glass Menagerie focuses on three completely different characters, their dreams, and each individual’s inner struggle to face reality. Laura Wingfield and Tom Wingfield obtain certain weaknesses, which include self-consciousness and the incapability of making the decision to remove oneself from their current circumstances which ultimately inhibits…