Theme Of The Bluest Eye And A Streetcar Named Desire

I must admit that all of the assigned reading topics were new to me, nevertheless, I gained a great deal knowledge with new found perspectives on literature and life in general by engaging in these works. The Color Purple was truly an eye opening and deeply intimate story, A Streetcar Named Desire also portrayed similar feelings of intimacy however, compared to The Color Purple, it lacked the ambiguous cultural diversity that tends to be intriguingly more complex. Taking the poetry and short stories we read into consideration, I would have to say, they also added a significant amount of literary educational value, but once again lacked in comparison to Alice Walker’s, The Color Purple. Therefore, having to choose one particular work to discuss

Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) was born in Mississippi but moved to New Orleans at the age of 28, there he found the inspiration for his play A Streetcar Named Desire. The play is set in New Orleans and cooperates the vibe of the setting particularly through music. Williams uses vivid music in this play which heightens its themes such as madness and social differences.

The novel explores how an individual's shift in perception impacts the other person in the relationship. It questions the fundamental idea of how relationships function. Simply because one person conception of the truth has

The truth will always prevail in the end. Many of the characters in his play are accused of

Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is a web of themes, complicated scenarios, and clashes between the characters. Therefore, it might’ve been somehow difficult to find out who the protagonist of this play is if it wasn’t for Aristotle’s ideas of a good tragedy because neither of the main characters, Stanley Kowalski and Blanche Dubois, is completely good nor bad. According to Aristotle’s Poetics, a good tragedy requires the protagonist to undergo a change of status which only happens with Blanche Dubois.

In Tennessee Williams’ play A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche’s character believes that the opposite of death is desire. Throughout the play Blanche fills her desires in order to escape from the death of people and things that surround her. Williams uses Blanche to further develop the theme because she copes with death by filling her desires, which slowly results in the self-destruction of her character. Although the theme is mostly developed from Blanche’s character, Stella, Stanley, and Blanche’s husband all suffer from desire.

In both instances the The assumption exists that each character knows the whole story. When in fact they know only a faction, and a lie at that. It is important to remember that we can not see everything, and that what may be obvious to us now, is acluay wrong in the whole

By contrasting the homes of Claudia and Pecola throughout the entire novel, Morrison stresses the importance of home in defending against a predatory, racist society. In Claudia’s home, her parents truly care for her and her sister. In one instance, her father took out a gun to fend off a tenant that touched Freida’s breast. This completely contrasts with Pecola’s home, where her parents are both hateful and self-hating, and her father actually raped her. Even though both households are

Truth is described to be more than a symbolic idea, but instead a pathway one will journey into. This is revealed through the protagonist Henry Drummond. Being a defense attorney,

Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire distorts truth within Blanche’s mind (“ I don’t tell the truth. I tell what ought to be the truth”) to the extent that veracity itself is disintegrated unconsciously into her inner deceptive conflict of illusion and reality. Williams externalises this conflict in the typification of Blanche and Stanley as Nietzsche’s Apollonian-Dionysian dialectic in the inevitable destruction of Blanche in her lies, coerced by women’s suffering due to the onslaught of patriarchy. Back to secrets and lies The deaths that Blanche suffers engender her characterisation as the Apollonian in her world of delusion and lies.

In the play, “Streetcar Named Desires” the poet use several symbols that represent the feeling and situations of the protagonist. First, the “light”, through out the play, Blanche avoiding the light whenever she meet Mitch that shows the protagonist is avoids light in order to stop her suitor, Mitch from seeing the reality of her aging face and also she is hidden the rough coincidence which she experiences before she come to her sister. In addition, Blanche “bath” her self much time throughout the play. She says it “clam her nerves” although she washes up her self because she is cleaning her odious, that her sexual experiences make her became an overwrought person. Furthermore, in the play Blanche and Stanley “drink” constantly at different

Tennessee Williams weaves A Streetcar Named Desire with various themes. Viewers and readers experience a whirlwind of misogyny, vulnerability, and deceit. Tied with these themes are symbols, which include the Varsouviana polka tune, the use of the song, “It’s Only a Paper Moon,” and lights and the paper lantern. With these symbols, Williams creates a pathway into the minds of his character Blanche Dubois.

Being very different and not share the same character traits are usual but anyone would find when observing the dissimilarities among the main characters of the movie “A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams” that people are not same. The movie’s main female characters are Blanche Dubois and Stella Kowalski. These sisters are very dissimilar in countless ways, from their behavior, and approach, to their views regarding the action of women. Although, they matured up together and were raised by the same people. Their relationship is a major example of just how different two people can be.

Most stories have the plot if the protagonist being victorious. This contrast with A Streetcar Named Desire-a play by Tennessee Williams. Blanche, one of the protagonist in this story is the main source of several injustices. In fact, she has the horrible treatment of her brother in law, Stanley; who sexually abuses her. William focuses the character Blanche in streetcar named Desire in order to develop themes and generate sympathy from the audience.

Colors represent what a character is doing or how they are as a person. In "A Streetcar Named Desire" Blanche is connected to white but does not represent what the color means and Stanley is connecting to red, strongly connecting to the color.