Feminism taken to Extremes in A Streetcar Named Misogyny As women's studies programs have proliferated throughout American universities, feminist "re-readings" of certain classic authors have provided us with the most nonsensical interpretations of these authors' texts. A case in point is that of Kathleen Margaret Lant's interpretation of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in her essay entitled "A Streetcar Named Misogyny." Throughout the essay, she continually misreads Williams' intention, which of course causes her to misunderstand the play itself. Claiming that the play "has proved vexing to audiences, directors, actors, readers, and critics" (Lant 227), she fails to see that it is she herself who finds the play vexing, because it does not fit nicely into the warped feminist structure she would try to impose upon it. Her first problem is with the heroine of the play, Blanche DuBois, who, she claims, is "ironically made guilty for her own victimization. No longer fully human, she is simply a metaphor of all that is vile about women. Blanche cannot, then, claim tragic stature or even our sympathy precisely because she is a victim of rape. And as she becomes responsible for her own victimization, Stanley is left to glory in his ascendancy. This aspect of Streetcar arises from the misogyny which colors the play…" (Lant 226). Admittedly, Blanche does flirt with Stanley briefly at the beginning of the play—just as many women playfully flirt with their brothers-in-law. But as her relationship with Stanley deteriorates, she makes it quite obvious to him that she loathes the sight of him. Though the world in which Lant lives may be one in which a woman, playfully sprinkling her brother-in-law ... ... middle of paper ... ...rry to scrutinize his work and pass judgment upon it, Lant has failed to comprehend the fact that Williams was merely portraying society as he saw it and as he experienced it, no holds barred. Works Cited Brownmiller, Susan. Against Our Will. New York: Bantam Books, 1975. Dworkin, Andrea. Intercourse. New York: The Free Press, 1087 Lant, Kathleen Margaret. "A Streetcar Named Misogyny." pp. 225-238 in REDMOND. Redmond, James (Editor). Violence in Drama. Cambridge University Press; 1991. Spoto, Donald. The Kindness of Strangers. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1985. Williams, Edwina Dakin. Remember Me to Tom. St. Louis: Sunrise Publishing Company, 1963. Williams, Tennessee. Memoirs. New York: Doubleday and Company, Inc: 1975. Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire. New York: Signet. Original copyright 1947.
The plays, A Streetcar Named Desire and A View from the Bridge, focus on the theme of domination of the female characters through the writer’s habit of literacy techniques such as imagery and realism to add the typical tragedy that follows in both plays – where the main character dies at the end and each playwright uses their own method to manipulate their point of view or opinion of the play’s plot to the audience members.
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Regardless of the way that Williams' hero in a Streetcar Named Desire is the sentimental Blanche Du Bois, the play is a work of social legitimacy. Blanche discloses to Mitch that she lies since she declines to acknowledge the hand destiny has given her. Lying herself and to others allows her to make life appear as it should be rather than as it is by all accounts. Stanley, a pragmatic man ardently grounded in the physical world, hates Blanche's produces and does all that he can to unwind them. The adversarial relationship amongst Blanche and Stanley is a battle amongst appearances and reality. It moves the play's plot and makes a larger strain. Finally, Blanche's endeavors to change her own and Stella's habitations—to revive her life and to spare Stella from an existence with Stanley—fizzle.
Mark Twain wrote the book The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn for a reason. He wrote it to show what it was like during the times of slavery, and t describe the conditions of slaves. He used the N-word in his book, and used it to show how people talked. The word helped create the mood in the story. Many schools ban the book because of the word, and want to replace the N-word with slave. the N-word should remain in the book to honor Twain's choice of words in his book, and to teach about racism and slavery.
Blanche is displaced in her normal environment. She was a southern belle who moved to the blue collar side of the south. Blanche tried to cope with the history she left behind and her out of place actions shown in the article, Authorizing History: Victimization in “A Streetcar Named Desire,” Blanche was misplaced and misunderstood. Instead of Stella listening to Blanche, she believes her husband for her unpleasant past and accused rape and agrees to call a doctor to take her
The definition of submission is to acknowledge the legitimacy of a superior force and yield to it. It is commonly thought of in association to women, due to their long-lasting subordination throughout history. In Tennessee Williams' play, A Streetcar Named Desire submission is presented through the female characters of Stella and Blanche through exploring sexual relationships as well as the contrast of how the two genders act differently towards each other. On the other hand, Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie focuses more on the familial aspect of submission, particularly in the case of Beatrice and Kambili. However, Adichie manages to make a case against female submission through the growth of Kambili’s character in the novel as
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In the play A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche Dubois is a victim. One reason she is a victim is because even though she caused her young gay husband to commit suicide by saying that he disgusted her, she did not want it and she was left with the guilt of her husband’s death. The guilt caused by her husband’s death was what caused all her actions before and during the play. Another reason Blanche is a victim in the play is how from the start of the play all the way through till the end of the play Stanley tries to ruin or destroy Blanche. Why Stanley tries to ruin Blanche is that he knows that he will feel accomplished after he takes Blanche down from her “pedestal” because he has already taken Blanche’s sister Stella off of her “pedestal”. A third reason why Blanche is a
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