Street Car Named Desire

Women during the 19th century are subject to portray a moral and chaste image; however, in the captivating play, “A Streetcar Named Desire,” written by Tennessee Williams, the readers are drawn into a flawed character named Blanche Du Bois. Blanche is a woman who is stuck between her fantasy and reality from the real world. She pretends to be the ideal womanly image but is later revealed that her desires overtake her to lose her balance of mind. Her fragile…...

Elia Kazan’s screen version of A Streetcar Named Desire emphasizes a unifying element for all four of the main characters; they all need something in their lives but are hiding behind bad habits and behaviors since they cannot attain that need. Their separate journeys’ paths cross in these scenes, with Blanche at the center of it all. While Stella is trying to find a way to accept who Stanley truly is since he has come to provide her with her…...

An assessment of and reaction to the literary value of the Tennessee Williams' book, "A Street Car Named Desire", including a biography of the author Tennessee Williams's playA Streetcar Named Desire contains more within it's characters, situations, and story than appears on its surface. As in many of Williams's plays, there is much use of symbolism and interesting characters in order to draw in and involve the audience. The plot of A Streetcar Named Desire alone does not captivate the…...

As we grow up it’s not only our age and experiences that make us who we are, relationships also shape our identity. All relationships will change our identity no matter who they are or what kind of relationship they have with us. Our friends shape our identity just as much as our family, if not more. This statement is very well depicted in the play “A street car named Desire by Tennessee Williams”. Throughout the play you see the different…...

The play “A street car named Desire” by Tennessee Williams is a play that explores different characterizations in the society, by using three prime characters Stanley, Blanche, and Stella. Stanley is a person who lives in the realm of reality while Blanche seeks to live in a fantasy world. Stella is person who is deceived by Blanche’s illusions but comes back to reality when Stanley acts as a mirror and reflects all that Blanche loathes about herself. The characters in…...

Although the play itself would have made huge strides in the feminist movement at the time the message behind the play brings out a crucial and relevant message to the audience today, and asks bigger questions to young people in a generation that questionably has made very few steps forward in the past few decades. It questions how gendered stereotyping controls our society and how little both sexes care to amend it in an apathetic civilisation. Blanche as a character…...