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external problems that lead to her falling apart. Blanche struggles with deception, lying, living in a fantasy, denial, guilt, promiscuity, and drinking. Outside of her reach she struggles with ex husband’s death and betrayal, and Stanley. Blanche DuBois is a perfect example of a tragic protagonist because all her internal and external conflicts overwhelms her to the point of her destruction by the end of the play. Blanche’s external conflicts like Stanley, the betrayal of her husband

contributed to A Streetcar Named Desire. According to Tennessee Williams biography, he was born in Columbus, Mississippi, moved to St. Louis and later moved to New Orleans after college. This contributes to the setting of A Streetcar Named Desire, the DuBois were originally from Laurel Mississippi and found themselves living in a urban city of New Orleans, Louisiana which takes place both in Williams and Kazan's setting. In William’s biography, he had described his childhood growing up in mississippi

“Drama is created by placing ordinary people in situations of crisis” explore some of the methods used to create drama in this way in at least two of the plays you have studied The focus of a tragedy play is to emphasize the downfall of an individual from a social position of high standing. In Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman and Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire, drama is created through the use of discussing the downfall of an ordinary person. By placing ordinary people

A Streetcar Named Desire: Reality Persists In Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Blanche DuBois unveils the theme of the story through her representation of the struggle to maintain innocence in a tragically guilty world. The main theme of the story is that the façade of performed perfection will always be unsuccessful; fantasy cannot overcome reality. As hard as Blanche tries to hide in her fantasy, eventually truth persists and, in the end, overtakes the delusions she holds. Blanche

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

An American Dream is happy and successful, wanting to make something of yourself, or the idea that your children will do better than yourself. The two plays read that are built upon an American Dream are A Raisin in the Sun and A Streetcar Named Desire. A Raisin in the Sun is a play set in Chicago some time between now and WWII. The play focuses on a small family, the Youngers, who are living together each with their own American Dream. In A Raisin in the Sun Mama’s American Dream is fulfilled.

The relationship between gender and power in A Street Car Named Desire In the play A Streetcar Named Desire, author Tennessee Williams creates a strong relationship between gender and power, and asserts that when both are unchecked and combined a force is created which leads people to have no remorse while pursuing their desires. When the four main characters of the play interact we see how this force is detrimental to the weaker characters. Being both immensely masculine and powerful causes Stanley

Furthermore, Williams’s exhibits little regard for ‘facts’, as revealers of the truth are insufficient. In ‘The Malediction’, Lucio’s denied answers to substantial questions; they relay only “the total amount of tonnage now lost at sea.” Facts concerning people are limited and “confusing”, appearing like elucidations of date to outsiders; mere opinion to observers. In considering the labels associated to the widow in ‘Three Players of a Simmer Game’ (the story reworked in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’)

emphasize and explain Blanche DuBois actions as a character throughout the play. Williams does this with music as the stage directions. Blanche is deeply characterized with this music. In that, she is characterized through the play as first being depressed to being unrealistic to becoming fully insane. This progression of Blanche is emphasized by music. Williams allows her characterization to set the mood for the play. The blue piano is used to emphasize Blanche DuBois loneliness, depression, and

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