A Streetcar Named Desire Rhetorical Analysis

and self - pitying ways from the death of her husband and the lies of

A short amount of time has passed after Blanche’s encounter with the stranger following the departure of her to the mental institute, Blanche is wearing her piece of silky white robe. In her bag is a small bottle half full of liquor that she has slipped past the doctor. Whilst Blanche drinks to escape the feeling of regret she sings “Paper Moon” just so the doctor in the front seat of the car cannot hear her. Constantly taking sips of the strong liquor, she hums the song to herself until there is no more liquid in the glass bottle. Blanche looks up into the ceiling and tips the bottle upside down in hopes of the small puddle at the bottom to come out. With no liquor left in the bottle, Blanche frustratingly throws the bottle out of the window

Williams’ also uses animal imagery to show the subordination of women in a big patriarchal society. During Stanley’s games he doesn’t want any interruption from the women in the household and even when they’re not disturbing anyone he tells them “you hens cut out that conversation in there” (Williams 54). Hens are the female chickens and they are mostly just used to lay the eggs. Stanley calling Blanche and Stella hens shows that he is specifically calling them out because they’re women. He could of chosen to call them another animal but stuck to hens because since he is considered a “rooster”, the hen will always be below. Later on in the play, Blanche describes the poker night as “this party of apes! Somebody growls- some creature snatches

Two cavemen stumble upon a burning log, neither familiar with fire, the first trusts his instincts proceeding to run away cowardly, he survives only to later die a lonely cold death succumbing to hypothermia; while the second takes the log to his cave and proceeds to thrive, living a long, prosperous life, despite being haunted by the fact his greatest accomplishment was picking up a exaggerated stick. See the first man trusted his instincts, a strategy that kept him alive until then, while the other took a risk and it payed off but we have those instincts because risks do not always pay off. These primal instincts allow humans to quickly fall back to the tried and trusted safe path but can also lead a person to do something to meet the needs

Allusion is a figure of speech, in which one refers covertly or indirectly to an object or circumstance from an external context. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Blanche Dubois from the Old South moves to live with her sister Stella Kowalski and her husband Stanley in the New South. Blanche loses contact with the real world because she cannot escape the events of the past. The allusions associated with Blanche and Mitch represent the kind of relationship they have, and foreshadows what will happen to them. My Rosenkavalier represents Blanche’s desire. “Je suis la Dame aux Camellias! Vouz etes- Armnad!” foreshadows that Blanche will forsake Mitch. “And if God choose, I shall but

In many modern day relationships between a man and a woman, there is usually a controlling figure that is dominant over the other. It may be women over man, man over women, or in what the true definition of a marriage is an equal partnership. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams Stanley is clearly the more dominant figure over Stella. Throughout the play there are numerous examples of the power he possesses of her. Williams portrays Stella as a little girl who lives around in Stanley’s world. She does what he wants, takes his abuse yet still loves him. Situations likes these may have occurred in the 1950’s and lasted, but in today’s time this would only end up in a

Blanche is a fading “Southern Belle” struggling to maintain her identity. She speaks in long sentences with intricate phrases and uses figurative language to maintain a perception of herself as a sophisticated woman. When talking to Stella, Blanche elaborately describes Stanley and unnecessarily compares him to a “survivor of the stone age” “bearing the raw meat from the kill in the jungle”(51) to deepen her accusations. Blanche becomes dramatic when detailing traumatizing incidents to build sympathy from her audience. In an attempt to build guilt for Stella, Blanche states that ‘I, I, I took the blows in my face and my body! All of those deaths! The long parade to the graveyard!”. She uses the pronoun “I” heavily and uses appealing words to dramatize her situation and hide the truth. Blanche uses extravagant and sophisticated

I agree that characters in the book A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, use lying and deception to fuel their social status. These lies develop trust and relationship issues and threaten the wellbeing of everyone involved. Blanche, was a high school english teacher in mississippi who was forced to leave her life behind there. With nowhere to go Blanche moves in with her sister Stella and husband Stanley, who has a suspicion about Blanche's past life which lead to some unwanted events.

A Streetcar Named Desire is very thought-provoking play. It brings up a wide variety of social issues that are still a problem today. These issues help make the play relatable to life outside of the theatre. From the directing to the costumes, this play was very intriguing.

The Raw Power of A Streetcar Named Desire         Tennessee Williams's play A 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 audience.  

Tennesse Williams in his A Streetcar Named Desire creates a conflict of civility and brutality through the characters of Blanche and Stanley. The conflict is created through Apollonian and Dionysian thought and supported in the play with symbols, characters, motifs and language/dialogue. Williams creates a constant struggle between Blanche’s need for fantasy and illusion and Stanley constantly trying to ground Blanche, forcing her to acknowledge reality. The first image of Stanley throwing meat at Stella is a symbol that represents his primitive self, inner brutality and savage like behavior, all qualities of Dionysian thought.

A Streetcar named Desire- a play analysis We are in 1946 in New Orleans, the Second World War has just ended and the men have returned from the military, to reclaim “their jobs” that in their absence the left behind women had taken over. Many women were forced to go back into the kitchen and to their roles as stay-at-home wives, but not all! As some pursued new careers, a feminist movement began to rise once again. However, for both men and women, the social expectations of the genders were still very prevalent at this time.

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Social upheaval in many senses was explicit through the beginning of the twentieth century. 2 world wars had shifted the balance of power between men and women. Women were increasingly employed to fill positions which had previously been considered masculine. This was not to last however, and by the fifties men had reassumed their more dominant role in society. People were finding new voices at this time by taking pre-existing forms and pushing the boundaries to re-voice established literary forms. Tennessee Williams wrote A Streetcar Named Desire around the time this reversal was occurring in American society. Williams was a homosexual from the deep south of America, and his play is about physical, emotional and sexual conflict. We also see a discourse about the qualities of an Old South and a New America. It is an astute depiction of the continual metamorphosis gender roles were encountering; and in the play Williams highlights this gender struggle to represent the continual fight for supremacy on the one hand and equality on the other in the home between men and women and in the country between the Old south and the New America. Williams depicts "otherness" describing how people are marginalized and objected from society, for example Mitch and Blanche, he is also interested in femininity. Williams take on femininity is interesting as his female characters are central figures that are focused on as primary desiring subjects.

Music and literature in collaborative form allow authors to expand elements of themes, plot, and characters in a way accessible to readers. Although the book, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, is essentially the dialogue and stage directions for the adorned Broadway play, reading it allows for insight into Williams’ reasoning in constructing the story and its characters. Truly, Williams’ particular choice of music not only fits the setting of the story, but also allows him to construct complex characters and establish the mood for the scenes of the play.