Snowstorms In A Streetcar Named Desire

In A Streetcar Named Desire, the theme of violence is very frequent in the character Stanley Kowalski. Stanley is a married, young man, who comes across to the reader as quite an enraged person with animalistic attributes. A prime insinuation of Stanley’s difference to regular humans is when Stella DuBois (Stanley’s wife) explains to her sister that Stanley is of “a different species”, foreshadowing that Williams may be warning the reader that Stanley is capable of things that are not in

The author, Tennessee Williams, does a phenomenal job of portraying Blanche Dubois as a deceiving, manipulative, arrogant person in his book “A Streetcar named Desire”. Williams first showcases these characteristics during the arrival of Blanche. This introduction not only sets a mood and tone but it gives us our first impression of Blanche. Overall this impression leaves the audience with a sour taste in their mouths and ill feelings towards the new girl. However, don’t be so quick to jump the gun. What if I said Blanche isn’t the villain she’s depicted as in this story?

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 contrast the name Stanley offers no specific meaning in relation to meaning in the play. Secondly the name Dubois sounds aristocratic, with a possible proud heritage, whereas the name Kowalski sounds more modern. A Dubois speaks softly and flittingly, as the name is pronounced, whereas a Kowalski speaks loudly and brutally as the name is said. Kowalski 's enjoy loud, rowdy poker parties, whilst Dubois 's wince and prefer teas, cocktail parties and luncheons. The names of these two characters help in constructing the conflict between the two classes. The dialogue of Blanche and Stanley and the symbolic use of names help to construct class conflict in the play, A Streetcar Named Desire.

A Streetcar Named Desire and “Water” examine the world and how people handle the harsh reality of things. A Streetcar Named Desire follows Blanche Dubois, a southern belle forced out into a cold world, who moves in with her sister Stella and her abusive husband Stanley Kowalski. Blanche inevitably is at odds with Stanley, who she views as common filth and primal. Stanley determined to not allow Blanche steal Stella from him and exact revenge he pulls up dirt on her and ruins her chances with Mitch. At the same time, one wants to dislike Blanche’s lies and actions, one must pity her and feel bad that the world has made her like this. By the end of the play, Stanley emerges victorious: he has won back Stella, has a baby, molested Blanch and sent her to a mental hospital. The conflict was not even close as Stanley uses the cruel world to his advantage. The poem “Water” by Robert Lowell does not follow a similar storyline, yet contains various thematic similarities. The poem is about a young man and woman whose relationship is being tested and eventually it falls apart. The two find themselves powerless to stop incessant waves that destroyed their relationship. The play, A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, and “Water”, by Robert Lowell, assert that people are powerless to change time nor their own mortality, the world is an unforgiving and cruel place, and reality cannot be ignored.

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

In the beginning of the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, Blanche first arrives from Laurel Missouri and immediately becomes the antagonist. As the play goes on Stanley starts to go against Blanche. At the end of the play Blanche becomes the victim. In the end, Stanley sent Blanche off to a mental asylum. This plays demonstrates domestic violence. In the beginning of the play A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams shows how society accepted it and ignored it.Stanley, one of the characters in the play, found domestic violence to be a positive and very sexual part of him and his wife, Stella's, relationship. Throughout the play, Williams shows that he believes that it is wrong.

It was not just her self that put her in the lime light of being a victim; it is also her new change of environment and people. Stanley is Stella's husband; he is described to be very masculine and aware of his sexual magnetism. “Strongly, compactly built”. He is mostly at ease with people however, if they lack loyalty and affection to him, he will bully them. Especially women, as he believes them just to be easy conflict. It is seen in scene 3 that Stanley has little respect for women. “I said to hush up!” This is addressed to his wife who is seen emotionless and impassive in this play. As for Blanche how is fussy and at edge, she would be very effected by the crude attitude that Stanley presents and so tries to hysterical take Stella away from her husband. Stanley does not forget of this act of interference and makes him all the more determined to be rid of Stella’s “charity case”. The real reason for Stanley’s bulling is that Blanche immediately received all Stella’s attention. “How about my supper huh? I’m not going to no Galatorires’ for supper” This made Stella dominant in power over Stanley and Blanche, something Stanley was not used to. “I put you a cold plate on ice”.

A Streetcar Named Desire is a play, written by Tennessee Williams which is set in 1940’s New Orleans. The south, mainly the state of Louisiana, was booming during the 40’s, and everyone was happy, the jazz revolution was in full swing in the south and was sweeping up anyone in its way, however, New Orleans definitely was not thriving economically. Alongside the issues of money in Louisiana, there were also problems with domestic violence and racism. The location of the play makes all the difference, if the story’s location changes the setting changes, the behavior of the characters would change as well, and the play would be dramatically different if written into any other city. Often throughout the book, either the narrator or the stage directions give city specific examples which would make the play different if the story was moved from New Orleans to anywhere else.

“Charles! Ethan! If you guys are coming with Paige and me, you have one minute to get your butts down here and in the vehicle!” Krystal yelled.

In the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stella and Stanley Kowalski have a far from perfect marriage. In the Kowalski household ranking is set in stone; Stanley is the alpha and protects his ranking by emotionally and physically abusing Stella. Stanley is an aggressive husband but signs of a softer side peak through Stanley’s hard exterior creating two personalities. Stanley has destroyed the meaning of sex, using sex for physical satisfaction and creating a sense of desire for Stella. By using sex as a type of desire Stanley has created an animalistic need for sex. Stanley has contrived authority over Stella, creating a strained marriage. Out of panic, Stella has become Stanley’s enabler, returning to him regardless how hard the hit, Stella accepts the abuse. Stella has become so manipulated by Stanley that she believes that the abuse is a large part of marriage. Stella has grown so dependant on Stanley that Stella grows panicked by the thought of being without Stanley. The Kowalskis have become trapped in an endless cycle of domestic abuse. Stanley Kowalski’s control over Stella Kowalski creates an environment of fear.

Although Miss Dubois seems to grab the spotlight in terms of alcohol abuse, the reader must not overlook the play’s other abuser: Stanley Kowalski. However, Stanley’s dependence is quite different from Blanche’s as noted in a literary critique, A Streetcar Named Desire and Other Plays:

In Tennessee Williams play “A Streetcar Named Desire” madness continues to get progressively worse in the lives of the main characters Stanly, Stella, and Blanche. Because of low self esteem and her delusional thought process Blanche is most affected by the madness. Blanche’s delusional life style leads her to compulsively lie, live a promiscuous life style, and alcoholism. Blanche tries constantly to deal with her own madness, but her delusional mental state is constantly effect by the people around her. Although she causes most of the problems in her life some of her madness is justifiable. By the end of the play Blanche can no longer fight off the madness and is sent to an insane asylum. Even though most of the madness that occurs

A Streetcar Named Desire is a play of multifaceted themes and diverse characters with the main antagonists of the play, Blanche and Stanley infused by their polarized attitudes towards reality and society ‘structured on the basis of the oppositions past/present and paradise lost/present chaos’(*1). The effect of these conflicting views is the mental deterioration of Blanche’s cerebral health that, it has been said; Stanley an insensitive brute destroyed Blanche with cruel relish and is the architect of her tragic end. However, due to various events in the play this statement is open to question, for instance, the word ‘insensitive’ is debatable, ‘insensitive’ can be defined as not thinking of other people’s feelings but Stanley is aware of

Sisterly conflict between Blanche and Stella is an integral part of A Streetcar Named Desire. The early reunion in the opening scene is joyful, and Williams’ stage directions convey genuine affection, however the palpable hostility between Stanley and Blanche forces Stella to choose between her sister and her husband. Exploring contrasting themes of betrayal and love, Williams uses the sisterly conflict to highlight the wider themes of class divides and social inequality. The extract from Scene Four follows the traumatic events of ‘The Poker Night’, where Stanley brutally assaults Stella. A hysterical Blanche rushes to Stella the next morning to check on her. Having left her in a terrible state, Blanche is shocked to find her lazing contentedly on her and Stanley’s bed, alluding to their sexual reunion after Stanley apologised for his violent actions.