The play "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, which takes place in 1940's cosmopolitan New Orleans city, is a great example of this evolution. ... Therefore, there wouldn't be such a traumatic event that affected the main character's mental health completely. ... If any element such as time changed, then the plot, themes and the characters would differ completely as well and the play would lose its identity. ...

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One of the main themes dealt with in William's A Streetcar Named Desire is that of truth and artifice, reality and illusion, as the main character Blanche Dubois is seen to live in her own imaginary world. ... She knows that a streetcar named Desire brought her to her present predicament, but intellectually she separates that desire from herself. Ultimately, Williams advocates a moderate approach to the indulgence of desires. Desire is a fact of life and a driving force in the lives of Williams' characters. Though Stanley, a rapist and wife beater, is no one's prototype for th...

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