Streetcar Named Desire Reality

In Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, Williams explores the internal conflict of illusion versus reality through the characters. Humans often use illusion to save us pain and it allows us to enjoy pleasure instead. However, as illusion clashes with reality, one can forget the difference between the two. When people are caught up in their illusions, eventually they must face reality even if it is harsh. In the play, Blanche suffers from the struggle of what is real and what is fake because of the difficult events of her past. Blanche comes to her sister Stella seeking aid because she has lost her home, her job, and her family. To deal with this terrible part of her life, she uses fantasy to escape her dreadful reality. Blanche’s embracement of a fantasy world can be categorized by her attempts to revive her youth, her relationship struggles, and attempts to escape her past.

The definition of fate is the development of events beyond a person's control, regarded as determined by a supernatural power. Whether one has a fate, or set path in life, is often debated among individuals, religious or not. To those who believe in the Bible, fate is a sort of paradox. God gives us free will, yet God also has a plan for every one of us. Those who do not believe in the Bible have all sorts of thoughts and comments on what exactly fate is and if it exists or not. In the play A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, everyone has a fate. Blanche’s fate is the one that comes up the most, due to the particularly nasty set of cards she was dealt. Tennessee Williams uses Blanche, her conflict with Stanley, and the outcome to

The illusions that make up Blanche’s life while she is staying with her sister are something I have experienced first hand. Her time spent in New Orleans is blurred between what is real and what her mind conjures up for her to believe. At the beginning of the play Blanche lies and knows that she is lying, telling her sister that she is just “taking a leave of absence” (Williams Page???), and lying about her age. However as the play continues Blanche begins to fall victim to her own lies, convincing herself, possibly more than Stella, that Steph Huntleigh will come and save the two sisters. Losing touch with reality more and more as the play continues, Blanche Blanche lives in a dream world, and in scene 7 her reference to a "Barnum and Bailey world, just as phony as it can be-" exposes that she has created an illusion in her mind(Williams, Page 120). Like Blanche, much of my childhood and adolescence was spent denying what was

“This play eventually became one of Williams’s most effective blends of lyrical vision and dramatic irony in the agony of Blanche’s cry against Stanley to Stella Kowalski, his wife and her sister” (Mood 53). “Blanche Dubois cannot live with what Williams and most men of our time unhappily regard as reality” (Mood 57). Blanche Dubois is an aging Southern Belle and an insecure, dislocated individual who panics about her fading beauty and constantly attempts to hide from reality.

Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire is a play that tells the tale of a family in 1940’s New Orleans. It examines the issues of delusion, escapism, the pitfalls of desire, and the idea that people are reluctant to see the truth when it deviates from what their ‘perception’ or what they want from the world. This is all done from a variety of critical lenses. The aforementioned ‘critical lens’ is mostly simply defined as a specific way of looking at a text, by keeping certain questions and ideas in mind. This is important, as it allows the reader to understand a work beyond a mere two dimensional point of view- by analysis on another layer, with certain key factors in mind, a reader is able to further understand the work and the ‘subconscious meaning’ behind the choices of the author. While A Streetcar Named Desire is a novel about the chains of our own making, the reader’s experience and

In A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois proves to the readers that she is mentally unstable. Her imaginary world that she seems to be living in plays a huge role in the play. Throughout the play, she demonstrates that she is living in a world of illusion and even states, “I don’t want realism. I want magic!” (127) At the beginning of the play, when Stanley Kowalski is going through Blanche’s trunk of things and finds expensive looking jewelry and fur, she

     Stanley shreds the dreams of Blanche DuBois, revealing her ugly past to her sister and her beau. He refuses to

Desire – power and status. antithesis is death, moth, Stanley and Blanche, domestic violence, (chauvinistic), desire to be loved. She was bought to New Orleans literally by a streetcar that was named ‘Desire’, and also by desire in several other ways: her sexual desires and reliance on her body for pleasure meant her reputation and dignity were damaged at the Flamingo hotel and in Laurel where she was forced to leave her job as a school teacher, apparently taking an interest in younger boys; this kind of sexual desire is still something of a drive for her, yet she is not aware of its dangers; and her continuing desire, in an American Dream-like fashion, to re-find the gentility that Belle Reve and her dainty previous lifestyle beheld. It is

Blanche DuBois is an aging Southern debutante. She arrives at her sister's home in New Orleans hoping to start a new life after losing her family’s mansion, her job, and her reputation in her hometown of

The story of A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, talks about how the husband Stanley treats his wife Stella like a slave. Most guys can be either alpha or gentleman in the story. Now American audiences would mostly agree that there are struggles of marriage, abuse, mental health, and most guys are imperfect in this world. I do agree play A Streetcar Named Desire will work for the modern American audiences because most people can relate to it.

When Blanche and Stanley began to quarrel, various false shadows began to appear on the wall behind her. Odd noises and jungle cries also occurred as Blanche began to convert into madness. All of these effects combined to affect Blanche’s final breakdown and departure from reality in the face of Stanley’s physical threat. When she lost her sanity in her final struggle against Stanley, Blanche went back entirely into her own world. Whereas she originally coloured her perception of reality according to her wishes, at this point in the play she ignored reality altogether.

One of the play’s main characters, Blanche, has by no means had an easy adulthood. She has had to deal with her sister setting off to New Orleans with her new husband, the death of her father, losing her own husband, and the loss of their family’s beloved plantation, Belle Reve. With all of this going on, Blanche disguises her pain and delusion, and pretends that is does not exist. In a way,

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 his plays, A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams uses different ways to show in the play of social realism. It show each of individual character and focusing on how particular way of viewpoint contrast with men, and the perspective of looking at women. The play explores struggle of two character Stanley and Blanche, between appearances and reality which made the play’s plot more affected reality. Throughout this play, it show the symbolize of the gender roles and the power of men over women in the 1940’s in New Orleans.

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