Characters And Desire In A Streetcar Named Desiree By Tennessee Williams

Tennessee Williams’ play, A Streetcar Named Desire, is a story of people who try to live their lives despite their constant issues that interrupt their lives. Blanche DuBois is a repressed and sexually warped southern woman who seeks satisfaction and comfort. She wants someone to help lift the burden of the guilt she has from her twisted sexuality. Simultaneously, Stanley Kowalski, a terrifyingly abusive yet gentle “common man”, seems to be crying out for help in a post World War II world where all he has to offer is his rough love and sub-human like nature. The obvious troubled flaws in these two characters tend to hide the more troubled Stella Kowalski, the spectator who has to witness her husband ruin her sister’s life. Based on the reading

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.

Blanche is committed to a tradition and a way of life that have become anachronistic in the world of Stanley Kowalski. She is committed to a code of civilization that died with her ancestral home, Belle Reve. Stella recognizes this tradition and her sister's commitment to it, but she has chosen to relinquish it and to come to terms with a world that has no place for it. In a sense, Blanche is frantic in her refusal to relinquish her concept

He abuses his wife Stella physically and emotionally as he strikes and hits his pregnant wife while Stella represents the self-deprecating, submissive wife who tolerates and excuses her husband behavior. Another central theme in Williams’ play is the theme of illusion; Blanche lives in a fantasy world of sentimental illusion. She exerts efforts to maintain the appearance of being an upper-class young innocent woman, even though she is a fallen woman. Another theme is the theme of loneliness as Blanche is lost and alone in the world and she desperately seeks protection and companionship in the arms of strangers. Mitch is another character who is a victim of loneliness and he needs to find a woman to love him the way his mother does. The theme of sexual desire is related to destruction. Blanche wants to be a lady but she continually tripped up by her sexual desire. Stanley leads a violent brutal desire and views Stella as a sexual object and his final act as he rapes Blanche emphasizes his lustful desire. The theme of hatred is prevailed throughout the play as Blanche’s insult and insolence aroused the hatred of Stanley. The play focused on the feeling of repulsion between

‘A Streetcar named Desire,’ is an interesting play, by Tennessee Williams. The character 'Blanche DuBois' is created to evoke sympathy, as the story follows her tragic deterioration in the months she lived with her sister Stella, and brother-in-law Stanley. After reading the play, I saw Blanche as the victim of Stanley's aggressive ways, and I also saw her as a hero in my eyes.

The nature of motivations is driven by an individual’s need to pursue self interest, which directs their course of action. One’s interest is dependent on their influences as well as ambition to achieve goals. In Tennessee Williams’ modern play, A Streetcar Named Desire, Stanley’s actions are directed by his need to maintain power in his relationship with Stella even when these actions are immoral or wrong. The setting of the play takes place in late 1940s of New Orleans; where relationships are predominantly patriarchal. Stanley initially lived life in a stable relationship, taking the dominant role as a man. However, when Blanche is introduced into their lives, Stella is reminded of her upper class roots, interfering the life Stanley originally had. When Stanley’s predominant role is being challenged, Stanley’s need to reattain his personal equilibrium develops, impacting his course of action and treatment towards others. Due to this, Stanley struggles with fear and uncertainty, resulting in increased violence and a short-tempered nature. Therefore, when individuals have strong motives to reach their ambitions, their actions follows, even when these actions may be morally flawed.

A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennesee Williams In this piece of coursework i will assess how effectively the director understands the play and how she translates this knowledge when making the film starring Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh and I will be weighing up the similarities/differences between the first scene of the film and the first scene of the play. The director of the film A Streetcar Named Desire represents the first stage direction of the play very well. The description given in the first stage direction is very similar to the first shots that we get of the film which is of Elysian Fields and it runs between the L&N tracks of the river.

“You can disguise any set with lights and shadows” - indeed one can, even with a paper lantern. It simply depends on what type of “set” one has. It could be a scene, a place or even a person, as in the case of A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams describes the main character in his play Blanche DuBois, as a woman, desperate to cover her true self. She believes she is a victim of the harsh world that deprived her from love and forced her to succumb to indecent desires. Feeling guilty and filthy, she tries in many ways to cleanse herself from the mistakes of the past, which haunt her in the present. Spending all her time wearing white, being clean, presenting a certain image, Blanche finds herself most comfortable in the dark. Although Blanche

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In the play A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams’ portrays Blanch DuBoise as the character who suffers inner struggles all through her life. She is a fallen woman in the eyes of society. She would prefer to live in her own imagination. Her name is befitting for her in that she acts more as a woman of the night - she would rather be out at night or in the dim lights. She is a southern woman on all counts who lives in Laurel, Mississippi. Her life has been full of disappointments, death, and sexual propriety. Through her misfortunes, she becomes more unstable. She wants to create a life within her life to cope with all the stresses of her reality. Blanche is unable to find an escape from herself. She finds herself as a victim at the hands of her sister’s husband. Blanche hopes for new beginnings when she leaves Belle Reve from which she has been evicted. She moves to New Orleans to be with Stella, her sister, and her husband Stanley. Leonard Berkman “pities her and views her as a ‘misunderstood’ character, a tragic figure trying to start a new life for herself in New Orleans” (34). As much as she tries, she can never fully gain peace.

In the play “A streetcar Named Desire” it centers on a women named Blanche Dubois. She travels from the railroad in New Orleans to a street formally known as Elysian Fields, where she meets her pregnant sister Stella and her husband Stanly Kowalski. Having lost her homestead, husband and fortification, Blanche turns to her only close relative for support. Reaching middle age, Blanche emotionally is unhinged and is in financial crises with the loss of her southern bell life. After explaining the bad news of the loss of Belle Reve, the family mansion. Stanly quickly accuses Blanche of cheating Stella’s share of the family’s land/profits; intern starts a conflict with her. To Blanche it was clear that her sister was happy with Stanly, but notices how abusive and ape like he can be. Although Stella and Stanly fight, their physical relationship is strong. Therefore Blanche takes it up on herself to break the two up in fear of her sister’s wellbeing, the attempts only enrage Stanly further. He latter deeply investigates Blanche’s past and discovered that she has been living off the road and has had an affair with a 17-year-old student that attended the same school she worked. Using this newfound knowledge Stanly quickly alters the playing field and slowly reviles Blanches flaws and un-southern bell actions, which leads blanche into a dismay between her imaginary life and reality. Flustered and unstable, Blanche is abused physically and mentally by Stanly, he confronts

In the summer of post World War II in New Orleans, Louisiana lives hard working, hardheaded Stanley and twenty-five year old pregnant, timid Stella Kowalski in a charming two-bedroom apartment on Elysian Fields. Stella’s older sister Blanche Dubois appears in the first scene unexpectedly from Laurel, Mississippi carrying everything she owns. In Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, despite Blanche’s desire to start fresh in New Orleans, her snobbish nature, inability to act appropriately on her desires, and denial of reality all lead to her downfall. Blanche believes that her upper class roots puts her above everyone else including her sister Stella. The two sisters have a heartwarming reunion, but Blanche has resentment towards her sister for leaving her to care for their dying family. While Stella left to start a new life for herself, Blanche’s life went downhill. The deaths were slow and tortuous and lead her to the desire of destruction in her life. Blanche breaks the news to her younger sister that their childhood home Belle Reve has been lost, but fails to explain how.

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

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

Tennessee Williams was an American writer known for short stories and poems in the mid 1950’s. His more famous writing was A Streetcar Named Desire. His writings influenced many other writers such as August Strindberg and Hart Crane. His writings A Streetcar Named Desire and The Glass Menagerie was adopted to films and A Streetcar Named Desire earned him his first Pulitzer prize. In A Streetcar Named Desire there is many elements that build the plot and story line. The story is about a girl who is drove crazy by his sister’s husband and eventually sent to the mental hospital. The main plot is towards the end of the story when Blanche Dubois is blackmailed by her sister’s husband and raped by him. Everything takes its toll on her until she begins drinking heavily and is thought to have gone crazy and placed in a mental hospital. In this story, many things play affect in the contrast of the writing such as Blanche arriving at her sister’s house, seeing her sister’s husbands attitude, the poker game, Blanche getting raped. These events make Blanche an easy victim. In Tennessee Williams, a street car named desire, the start of kindness turns to tragedy and pain.