Film Analysis: A Streetcar Named Desire

In Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois is thrust into a series of unfortunate events and undergoes drastic changes in an effort to come to terms with her completely changed life. Through these events, Blanche happens to be the only remaining individual left to take care of the once valuable and prestigious family belongings, and her psychological mind spirals out of control in her attempts to restore the family’s honor. In addition to experiencing loneliness and feeling isolation from humans, Blanche faced many new challenges in stressful situations, which contributed to her poor decision making skills and inevitable negative outcomes in most of those situations. Through the characterization of Blanche DuBois, Williams’ intends to display the power of significant experiences in one’s life, which serves as a warning of how the effects of significant experiences on individuals should not be underestimated. Unfortunately, in Blanche’s case, abandonment by her sister was the perfect example of an individual underestimating the result of their actions, as this action was the initiation point of the events that would eventually lead to her unfortunate fate. Specifically, Williams’ focuses on portraying the disastrous effects of human isolation, which is often the result of an individual’s mindless actions. Human isolation plays an important role in the outcome of the play, as Blanche is known to have been abandoned at a young age, and her

In the film “A Streetcar Named Desire”, the producers do an excellent job of showing how the film plays with light and dark, illusion and reality, and brutality conflict. Blanche, Stella, Stanly and Mitch successfully portray the concepts of light vs dark, illusion vs reality, brutality conflict through various transitions of each.

In A Streetcar Named Desire, men are the social groups represented with these roles alpha, beta, omega. Males are portrayed as a big part in Tennessee's book, which shows the respect and rights they hold. The men are shown this way to give off their looks and personality. The way things are set up in the book shows the understanding of each male characters and where they stand.

In the opening two scenes of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by Tennessee Williams, the audience has its first and generally most important impressions formulated on characters, the plot and the mood and tone of the play overall.

Elia Kazan directed the film A Streetcar Named Desire and produce by Warner Brothers in 1951. The novel was originally written by Tennessee Williams and promoted as a play in 1947 and turned into a film later through out its success . The awards received were the Pulitzer price award in 1948 and was nominated for best motion picture, best writing and screen play. The novel was basically about a former English school teacher named Blanche Dubois (played by Vivien Leigh), who decided to join her sister at her house, Stella Kowalski (Kim Hunter) and her husband Stanley Kowalski (Marlon Brando) in New Orleans. During Blanche is at Stanley’s and Stella’s home, Blanche is trying to

The Elysian Fields are the Greek afterlife or heaven. Going through A Streetcar Named Desire, there is a tug-of-war like shift between a solid heaven-state that Stanley is very comfortable in and the flaky hell-state that Blanche so desperately tries to avoid but brings upon herself in said avoidance. It is interesting to have a character such as Stanley who is defined as an evil character because of his aggression end up the more audience-associated character and the almost-helpless female character be the audience-despised or pitied character after it was all said and done. As a female, I was surprised to associate with Stanley but found myself very much against Blanche’s character because of how she created her own demise.

It’s a scene from Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire: Stella Kowalski is yelling at her husband Stanley for his uproarious poker game. Stanley ignores his wife until she sharply interrupts his game and asks everyone to leave. In a fit of rage, Stanley slaps his wife. Stunned, Stella runs away and takes refuge in a neighbor’s house while Stanley’s poker buddies attempt to restrain him.

Desire, love, marriage and violence was there in "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams. This movie is talking about a women named stella who is married to a man named Stanley. Stanley was abusing his wife Stella, he was trying her badly and hits her always but she still with hem. Even when he hits her when she was pregnant. Moreover, Stanley was very crazy like he was mentally ill because of his madness.

Tennessee Williams was born in Columbus, Mississippi in 1911. A Streetcar Named Desire was set at around his time and it describes the decline of the Southern Belle named Blanche DuBois. The pathos found in Williams’s drama came from the playwright's own life. Alcoholism, depression, loneliness, desire, as well as insanity all played a huge part throughout William's lifetime, thus, incorporating these into his own life. Williams portrayed different social groups in his plays, and how they clash (such as the role of men and women, the urban and southern lifestyles) to criticize many aspects of society such as social criticism.

A Streetcar Named Desire begins in Blanche leaves her home and drags her luggage to live her sister, Stella’s house. In her sister's house, she meets a rude brother-in-law, Stanley, who is a descendant of Polish and has been a soldier. He suspects that Blanche may sell his wife's property, so his attitude to Blanche is very poor, even impatient. For example, when he paws through Blanche 's luggage and saw a lot of gorgeous clothes, he begins to impatiently ask Blanche where she puts the document of the legacy. When Blanche has a new boyfriend, Mitch, who is Stanley’s co-worker, he tells Mickey a cruel but true fact about Blanche.

Though Tennessee Williams uses his play, A Streetcar Named Desire, to open the eyes of the reader to the working-class lifestyle, his characters all struggle to see and accept the actuality of actions in the play. Desire, the reality for many characters, drives their agendas, but this theme does not encapsulate the entirety of the novels purpose. Williams uses his play to depict human negligence when faced with reality.

Ever had to send a crazy person off to a mental hospital? Well, Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire” will allow people to relate in a way people have never known and will do it all with lights and music!

Many critics have attributed the inspiration of the plot to A Streetcar Named Desire from Tennessee Williams’s own life. For example, Alice Griffin explained that ‘his parents gave consent for his sister Rose to have a prefontal lobotomy to cure her schizophrenia […] she remained institutionalized’ (Griffin, 1995:3). In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche is also institutionalized, which could have been inspired by Williams’s sister and her experiences. Furthermore, Williams is seen to be such a high regarded playwright due to his relation with all sorts of people, described by Adler as ‘His empathetic connection extended to all outsiders who were somehow marginalized or other because of either their racial, sexual, or ethnic identity or their artistic gifts – misfits who all became a favoured subject throughout his career’ (Adler, 2013:1). This is showing that his writing and stagecraft related with all classes and sorts of people, bringing his audience wider and more diverse. This essay will be exploring and critically evaluating the use of action, dialogue, themes, imagery, and stagecraft in A Streetcar Named Desire.

A Streetcar Named Desire’s plot thickens throughout scenes three, four, and five. The third act begins with Stanley hosting a poker night in his very own tiny kitchen. All men were married except one. Stella had arranged an evening out with Blanche to let the gentlemen have their own space. When the two women returned in the late, dark hours of the night, the taking and dealing of poker was still going on. Blanche quickly found herself making conversation with Mitch, the unmarried man. The two were interrupted when Stanley and Stella pursue an argument over the radio being on and he hits her. Stella and Blanche rush upstairs while the men get ahold of Stanley and quickly collect their earnings and leave. Stella eventually returns to Stanley after many shouts of sorrow. Blanche has tried her absolute best to explain to Stella that he is an animal and that she deserves so much better. However, Stella is in love and knows that he was sorry when he apologized and fixed the radio. The Fifth scene concludes as Blanche has kissed a young man right before Mitch shows up at her doorstep with roses.

Lurie is twice divorced and solves the problem with sex rather scandalously. He is using his position as a teacher to seduce one of his more vulnerable students, Melanie Isaacs. When facing a committee of inquiry Lurie is willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to repent. After losing his dignity and respect Lurie resigns from his post and seeks refuge at his daughter’s smallholding.