In the play "A Streetcar Named Desire" by Tennessee Williams, there are several prevalent themes. ... In "A Streetcar Named Desire", Tennessee Williams states that one can not shield himself from the harshness of reality by creating a fantasy alternative. ... Williams is demonstrating this through the lies that Blanche is living. ... Williams suggests that fantasies can be both useful and harmful. ... Tennessee Williams uses his play "A Streetcar Named Desire" to demonstrate the problem one faces with creating a fantasy. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the Street Car Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley Kowalski displays his brutality in many ways. ... In Conclusion, in The Street Car Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, Stanley's brutality is evident throughout the entire course of the play. ...

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This essay studies Williams's heroines who are unable to face their reality so they retreat into illusionary worlds created by themselves. ... Blanche DuBois, in A Streetcar Named Desire, is one of Williams's heroines who live under a cover of illusion. ...

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• Has Bibliography
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The ending in Tennessee William's play A Streetcar Named Desire in which Blanche DuBois' sister Stella Kowalski leads her off to a mental hospital by a matron and a kind-hearted doctor was indeed inevitable. ... It always stops after that " (Williams 114). ... Graves is the high school superintendent " he suggested I take a leave of absence " (Williams 21). ... In Scene X, Stanley tells Blanche that she did not put any tricks on him as she has done with other like Mitch when he says, "I've been on to you from the start " (Williams 127)! ... Blanche's rape also causes ...

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A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams, is set in New Orleans, Louisiana. The play begins in the evening, early May of 1947, featuring a two-story corner building on an avenue named Elysian Fields, and ends in late September of the same year. The United States in 1947, when the play was w...

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Minor characters do not undergo a transformation in the course of the play. Nevertheless they are of great importance to the presentation of themes and the unravelling of the plot. In A Streetcar Named Desire, except for Blanche, Stanley, Stella and Mitch, all others could be classified as minor cha...

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• Grade Level: High School