A Streetcar Named Desire By Blanche Dubois

   A Streetcar Named Desire is an intricate web of complex themes and conflicted characters. Set in the pivotal years immediately following World War II, Tennessee Williams infuses Blanche and Stanley with the symbols of opposing class and differing attitudes towards sex and love, then steps back as the power struggle between them ensues. Yet there are no clear cut lines of good vs. evil, no character is neither completely good nor bad, because the main characters, (especially Blanche), are so torn by conflicting and contradictory desires and needs. As such, the play has no clear victor, everyone loses something, and this fact is what gives the play its tragic cast. In a

The play A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, is a play about a woman named Blanche Dubois who goes to live with her sister after she loses her home in Mississippi. Between the hardships of her previous life and the way she is treated now, she is not in a good way by the time the play ends. She basically has a mental breakdown. There are three stages of Blanche’s mental state. She lives in a fantasy, Mitch rejecting her, and Stanley raping her, Blanche is mentally unstable by the end of this ply.

A Streetcar Named Desire is an occasionally hot, some of the time alarming performance of the devastation of a lady. The activity of the play concerns the time that Blanche DuBois goes through with her sister Stella and Stella 's spouse Stanley, and the activity components Blanche 's contention with Stanley. Blancches ignoble history step by step becomes exposed and Stanley’s responsibilities to his wife and his companion Mitch just make him more savage to Blanche as he ensures that she can 't begin once again with new life in New Orleans.

Throughout Tennessee William’s play “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Blanche Dubois exemplified several tragic flaws. She suffered from her haunting past; her inability to overcome; her desire to be someone else; and from the cruel, animalistic treatment she received from Stanley. Sadly, her sister Stella also played a role in her downfall. All of these factors ultimately led to Blanche’s tragic breakdown in the end.

To live in a world of illusion is to live a life of lies.Sometimes people try to escape reality, whether to avoid truths or to avoid their past. A Streetcar named Desire by Tennessee Williams introduces Blanche Dubois as the main protagonist and potential victim of the story. In the story, Blanche leaves her home in “Belle Reve” because it has been destroyed and takes a streetcar to to get to her sister’s (Stella’s) residence. She believes that she will find a new life as well as comfort and acceptance at her sister’s side. Unfortunately she is very wrong about it, in fact, it is the complete opposite. Blanche’s past life was very shameful for her and so in order to forget the tormenting truth, she resorts to living a fantasy life of her own, which causes problems for her later on (self-destruction).

Similarly, Blanche Dubois has some of the same characteristics as Willy Lowman. She lies about the reason for her coming to visit her sister. Blanche said," I was so exhausted by all I'd been through my-nerves broke. [ nervously tampering cigarette] I was on the verge of-lunacy, almost! So Mr. Graves-Mr. Graves is the high school superintendent- he suggested I take a leave of absence. I couldn't put all those details into the wire . . . [She drinks quickly.] Oh, this buzzes right through me and feels so good!" (Tennessee Williams, page 1120). Later on the story, we discover that Blanche had a sexual altercation with a student and that was her cause for leaving town. Also, Blanche likes to keep up with her self-appearance. Therefore, she flaunts

In A Streetcar Named Desire, the male protagonist, Stanley, was the northern progressive hard worker and Blanche was the Southern Belle holding onto her southern ideals of social class, elegance, and beauty. Like many other southerners, Blanche lived in the dark hiding from the progression and new ways. Blanche’s web of lies and obsession with the past could not protect her from the “new” and eventually she was forced to accept the truth of her society. Using the binary conflict of old vs. new, Williams characterizes Blanche as a damsel in distress, in order to condemn the aristocratic souths unwillingness to change. Blanche is established throughout the novel as the old south in order to directly contrast with the new southern society that is emerging.

     In Tennessee William’s masterful play, A Streetcar Named Desire, the reader meets a middle – aged woman by the name of Blanche DuBois. Blanche lives in her own faerie tale world, one of a young, beautiful debutante, surrounded by admirers, and loved by all whom she encounters. In reality, Blanche is an aging woman who cannot cope with the actualities of life. She makes up wild stories, and when Stanley Kowalski, her brother – in – law, rapes her, the realities of life cause her to drift into absolute lunacy.

I would like to analyze a tragic heroine Blanche DuBois appearing in a play A Streetcar Named Desire (1947) written by Tennessee Williams. My intention is to concentrate on the most significant features of her nature and behaviour and also on various external aspects influencing her life and resulting in her nervous breakdown. I would like to discuss many themes related to this character, such as loss, desire and longing for happiness, beauty and youth, pretension, lies and imagination, dependence on men and alcoholism.

The play A Streetcar Named Desire takes place after World War II in New Orleans, Louisiana. Stella is 25 and pregnant; she lives with her blue collar husband, Stanley. Blanche who is Stella’s older sister came to visit them and her and Stella had a heart warming reunion until Blanche had to tell Stella that there family mansion (Belle Reve) has been lost. Blanche has always secretly resented her sister because she has to stay behind and take care of their sick family while Stella left to live her life with Stanley. The longer Blanche stay there the more her and Stanley continue to disagree and not get along. Stanley believes that Blanche cheated Stella out of her share of the mansion and Blanche doesn't like that Stanley is so rough with Stella

What Blanche means when she says “I have always depended on the kindness of strangers” that due to her past issues and conflicts that Blanche experienced she desires that attention and compliments from strangers and eventually counted on the kindness to make her feel more confident and fulfill her emptiness along with all the insecurities she had.

The play A Streetcar Named Desire revolves around Blanche DuBois; therefore, the main theme of the drama concerns her directly. In Blanche is seen the tragedy of an individual caught between two worlds-the world of the past and the world of the present-unwilling to let go of the past and unable, because of her character, to come to any sort of terms with the present. The final result is her destruction. This process began long before her clash with Stanley Kowalski. It started with the death of her young husband, a weak and perverted boy who committed suicide when she taunted him with her disgust at the discovery of his perversion. In retrospect, she knows that he was the only man she had ever loved, and from this early catastrophe

In the play A Streetcar Named Desire the tragic hero Blanche Dubois is a “Southern Belle” from Mississippi who was born to a wealthy family. Blanche is a former schoolteacher who says that she lost Belle Reve (family estate) due to cost of the funerals and deaths of family members, but she avoids the fact that she does not have a job or money when she goes to stay with her sister Stella and bother in law in New Orleans. She seems to be on the run from her past because of her husband’s suicide after she expressed her distaste on his sexuality. She later had many affairs trying to numb her grief on the death of her husband.

In the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams, a woman in her thirties, Blanche Dubois, visits her sister, Stella Kowalski, in Elysian Fields of New Orleans. There, she encounters her husband, Stanley Kowalski, which initiates the major conflicts throughout the play. Blanche being Optimistic, yet kind and soft-hearted, who always believes in her fantasies where she struggles to force Stella out of the relationship with Stanley. Meanwhile Stanley is characterized as a definite masculine man, having mature and realistic thoughts, contradicting Blanche, where he reveals the harsh reality confronting Blanche, and tries to expose her abandoned secrets. During the rest of the play Blanche experiences severe trauma, as the harsh reality

A Streetcar Named Desire, written by Tennessee Williams, was first performed on December 3rd, 1947. Chronicling the actions and events that take place when two sisters are reunited, A Streetcar Named Desire is regarded as one of Tennessee William’s most successful plays. Likewise, “Blank Space”, written and performed by Taylor Swift, was first performed November 23rd, during the 2014 American Music Awards. “Blank Space” spent 22 weeks in the top 40 charts and is featured on the best selling album 1989. Though A Streetcar Named Desire and “Blank Space ” are two separate works written and performed 67 years apart, character and character actions in A Streetcar Named Desire are synonymous with lyrics portrayed in “Blank Space” because “Blank Space” lyrics can be used to describe the relationship between the characters, Blanche and Stanley. Both works describe an unhealthy relationship between two people, foreshadow an event that leads to insanity, and provide detailed information that can be applied to both characters.