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Resiliency is one concept that has never been the human races forte. Many things that happen in our current day and age require a great deal of perseverance and resiliency. People often will give in to the problems in their lives and learn to accept them, instead of persevering through them and working out the issues. The fact of the matter is, if you learn to persevere through problems, your life will be a lot more happy and pleasant to live. In Tennessee Williams’ play, “ A Streetcar Named Desire” suggests that you cannot give up on issues; you must be resilient to those issues and persevere to be happy.
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Identity in Contemporary American Drama – Between Reality and Illusion Tennessee Williams was one of the most important playwrights in the American literature. He is famous for works such as “The Glass Menagerie” (1944), “A Streetcar Named Desire” (1947) or “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1955)”. As John S. Bak claims: “Streetcar remains the most intriguing and the most frequently analyzed of Williams’ plays.” In the lines that follow I am going to analyze how the identity of Blanche DuBois, the female character of his play, “A Streetcar Named Desire”, is shaped. Firstly, we learn from an interview he gave, that the character of Blanche has been inspired from a member of his family.
2. What causes Mitch and Blanche to take a "certain interest" in one another? That is, what is the source of their immediate attraction? What seems to draw them together? What signs are already present to suggest that their relationship is doomed/problematic?
In Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire the characters represent two opposing themes. These themes are of illusion and reality. The two characters that demonstrate these themes are Blanche, and Stanley. Blanche represents the theme of Illusion, with her lies, and excuses. Stanley demonstrates the theme of reality with his straightforward vulgar ness. Tennessee Williams uses these characters effectively to demonstrate these themes, while also using music and background characters to reinforce one another.
Character Conflict in Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire. Tennessee Williams’ A Streetcar Named Desire is a play wrought with intertwining conflicts between characters. A drama written in eleven scenes, the play takes place in New Orleans over a nine-month period. The atmosphere is noisy, with pianos playing in the distance from bars in town.
The story takes place in 1949 at a time where streetcar were starting to get replaced by Buses cars. This changing period and culture had influences on the book. Throughout the book, Calvin describes the grievances of his father about the streetcar disappearing. As a result Calvin’s father despises buses and cars to death. “They’re cutting eighty cars off the lines immediately and everyone's on probation. There’s going to be no more streetcars. No more streetcars”(108). This shows the reason he hates buses and cars is because the appearance of new transportation is taking away the job. At the time there are many people who complained because it was affecting them financially. Also St. Paul had the nicest street car at the time and it came as a shock to some when they realized it will soon not be used. On the other hand, the time was not a good period for a person like Gretchen. Child protection was not good as nowadays and as a result both Gretchen and her sister suffer immensely. While talking to a police officer Calvin says, “‘Her sister told the police once, but they didn’t believe her. Then he did something real bad to her, and she went crazy, ended up in an insane asylum”’(129). This shows that police department were not sensitive when it comes to child abuse at that time of period. Their non cooperativeness or neglect to help a child under parental abuse really affected people like Gretchen and her sister. Gretchen’s sister informed the police to help her but her father figured she contacted them and he did unspeakable things to her. Gretchen fears the same thing might happen to her because the police will not believe her. To certain extent, the setting does play major role in the book. One of the emerging theme in the book is doing good for others and the author shows there is no cultural, time or place restriction to do good for someone. No matter the situation, we
The use of this dramatic irony is made to give a hint of suspense to the reader because they are aware that Stanley is around meanwhile Stella and Blanche do not. Blanche continues to speak her mind about Stanley saying that he appears to be “sub-human” and have animal like qualities. Stella lets Blanche have her time to rant about Stanley even though she does not have a problem with him. When Stanley finally enters the room, he grins through the curtains at Blanche and stares at her. Blanche now realized that he was listening to her whole conversation meanwhile the audience had known the whole time.
Tennessee Williams was one of the greatest American dramatists of the 20th century. Most of his plays take us to the southern states and show a confused society. In his works he exposes the degeneration of human feelings and relationships. His heroes suffer from broken families and they do not find their place in the society. They tend to be lonely and afraid of much that surrounds them. Among the major themes of his plays are racism, sexism, homophobia and realistic settings filled with loneliness and pain.1 Tennessee Williams characters showed us extremes of human brutality and sexual behavior.2 One of his most popular dramas was written in 1947, and it is called A Streetcar Named Desire.
After Blanche says she does not touch alcohol often, Stanley replies: “Some people rarely touch it, but it touches them often,” Williams incorporates this quote to reveal to the audience immediately that Stanley sees through Blanche’s façade, which is evident because Stanley is referring to Blanche in his reply.
In the opening chapter of the play, the several attributes of Stella Kowalski are made familiar to us and overall, depict her as a kind-natured, considerate and young woman. Stella’s persona also provides us with a dichotomy to Blanche.
Motif: The repetition of the Varsouviana Polka in Blanche’s mind throughout the story points out the moments in which Blanche finds herself reliving the suicide of her young husband. Because she feels guilty of his death, every time she hears the polka it causes her to be worried, traumatized, and uneasy. The motif serves as a reminder of what caused Blanche to become the person she is: a person who is afraid of revealing the truth to others and someone who prefers to create her own reality rather than face the judgement of other.
Blanche portrays many emotions on page 12 that reflects onto the audience. As an audience we feel empathy for Blanche because she is portrayed as a ‘fallen woman’ who is very isolated from the world. We can also see that she has a very delicate emotional state and a need for flattery through her dramatic actions. When we become aware of Blanche’s promiscuous past the audiences feelings may go two ways. We may feel sympathy for her because she feels the need to sexually satisfy herself to feel loved, or, we may have little sympathy for her because she is her own worst enemy in the play. For example, Blanche kisses a subscriptions boy before meeting with Mitch whom she wants to settle down with. This behaviour doesn’t show that she is dedicated